Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Global Talent Acquisition Business Partner with extensive experience delivering end-to-end recruitment solutions across agency, MSP, RPO, and in-house models. Proven expertise in technology recruitment, workforce planning, talent strategy, and stakeholder management, supporting complex global organisations including AstraZeneca, NHS Supply Chain, MI5, Gartner, and high-growth SaaS scale-ups. Demonstrated success in building and scaling high-performing, diverse teams aligned to business growth objectives. Strong background in full lifecycle recruiting, direct sourcing, international and multi-country hiring, diversity initiatives, and ATS implementation and optimisation (including Workday and Greenhouse). Experienced recruiting across Data & AI, Engineering, Product, and Commercial functions within healthcare, pharmaceuticals, supply chain, fintech, media, edtech, and IP-led organisations. Data-driven talent partner with a track record of improving time-to-hire, candidate experience, and hiring quality through market intelligence, talent analytics, and scalable recruitment processes.
Strategic Workforce Planning: Collaborate with senior business directors and HR business partners to identify current and future talent needs that align with the organisation's SCM transformation strategy. This includes forecasting skill requirements (e.g., Head of Process Design, Value Stream Lead, Change Lead and Architects) needed for an evolving SCM healthcare landscape. • End-to-End Recruitment Ownership: Owned full-lifecycle recruitment across technical and commercial roles. • Partnering with senior leaders to deliver hiring plans aligned to business needs. • Reduced time-to-hire by 40% through ATS-driven insights, streamlined processes, and proactive pipelining, while improving candidate experience and offer acceptance. • Direct Sourcing & Pipeline Development: Led direct sourcing for high-volume and hard-to-fill roles, reducing agency reliance, increasing direct hire ratios, and building sustainable talent pipelines.
Driving full-cycle recruitment for 20+ technical and commercial positions, including Lead Architect role, with current time-to-fill of 45 days (40% reduction from 75-day baseline). Serving as strategic advisor to 5 senior and exec-level leaders, leveraging market data and talent intelligence to inform hiring strategies and workforce planning decisions. Achieved 85% offer acceptance rate through enhanced candidate experience initiatives, including streamlined interview processes and improved communication touchpoints. Leading direct sourcing initiatives for hard-to-fill technical roles, reducing agency reliance from 60% to 25% with projected annual savings of £180K.
As a Recruitment Partner (ESP and UK), I am responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment processes for AstraZeneca Spain’s (ESP) new engineering hub in Barcelona filling key roles with top tier talent. • Due to over 100 IT engineer roles being made redundant, I led the reorg transformation of roles from UK to Barcelona. • My role involved driving talent strategies, supporting employer branding, and ensuring compliance with local labor laws and company policies • Providing market Insight collected from Horsefly and LinkedIn Talent Insight to colleagues and SLT during fortnightly catchups • Collaborating with hiring managers to improve recruitment metrics, i.e. time-to-hire, quality of hire, candidate • Experience. ensuring timely communication and positive feedback throughout the hiring process. • Directly sourced and screened candidates, leading to vast amounts of passive candidates • Enhanced candidate experience, Representing AZ at graduate events in Spain to raise brand awareness Achievement • Developed Direct Sourcing Strategy Diversity hires into Spain, hiring female candidates into Data Science and Engineering team. • Decreased time to hire to 50 days . The positions successfully placed * Enterprise Architect AI * Data Architect * Information Architect * AI Platform Engineer * Data Platform Engineer * Knowledge Engineer * MLOps Platform Engineer * Product Success Manager * Enterprise AI Governance Manager * Enterprise Data Governance Manager In addition to successfully placing the above skills, I would regularly provide colleagues and stakeholders business insights using LinkedIn Insights and Horsefly
Recruited 100+ Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, Engineering, and Product professionals for newly established European R&D hub in Barcelona, achieving 95% 12-month retention rate. Partnered with 15+ engineering and data science leaders to define role requirements, create competency frameworks, and develop hiring strategies aligned to strategic business objectives. Leveraged LinkedIn Talent Insights and Horsefly analytics to build pipelines of 300+ qualified candidates, reducing average time-to-fill from 90 days to 54 days (40% improvement). Improved offer acceptance rate from 40% to 80% through strategic employer branding, enhanced candidate journey mapping, and compelling value proposition communication. Led diversity and inclusion initiatives targeting Socioeconomics, Race, whilst increasing female representation in Data Science and Engineering from 25% to 50% (25 percentage point improvement) through targeted outreach, partnership with women-in-tech organisations, and bias-mitigated interview processes. Developed direct sourcing strategy, achieving 90% fill rate through direct channels, delivering £500K+ annual cost savings. Designed and implemented a talent mapping framework for critical AI/ML skills, creating a pipeline of 100+ passive candidates and reducing emergency hiring instances by 90%.
As an S/4 HANA Talent Acquisition Partner (Contractor), AstraZeneca’s Billion-pound greenfield implementation I was tasked to you my S4 HANA expertise to source and recruit best in class talent for S/4 HANA consultants, collaborating with hiring managers to define role requirements. • Focus was on implementing a recruitment plan for SAP-related positions and ensuring alignment with business objectives and project timelines. • Recruited skilled candidates for S/4 HANA projects, successfully filling key positions to meet project deadlines. • Collaborated with hiring managers to define role requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals, and project needs. • Developed and executed targeted recruitment strategies, improving candidate quality and time to fill for SAP roles.
* Stakeholder Management * Responsible for the end to end recruitment * Candidate experience improvement * Reporting
Decibel provides real-time intelligence that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences -- at scale. Pioneering the world's first technology designed specifically to quantify experiences, Decibel's Digital Experience Intelligence platform captures unique experience data, enriched by machine learning, to reveal digital body language, understand user state of mind and pinpoint problem areas on your website, web applications and native apps. As a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, I led the development and executed recruitment plan, overseeing recruitment efforts for key positions across various departments. I also managed a team of four recruiters, optimized hiring processes, and ensured alignment with organizational goals to attract and retain top talent. • Led the talent acquisition strategy, successfully filling critical roles, and improving recruitment efficiency across multiple departments. • International Hiring • Managed a team of recruiters, • Optimized hiring processes, reducing time-to-fill • Collaborated with leadership to align hiring strategies with business goals, ensuring top talent acquisition.