United Kingdom
Experienced COO with a strong focus on building high-performing teams and delivering strategic initiatives that drive sustainable growth. Leading delivery and client service functions with oversight of workforce planning, forecasting, utilisation, and performance management.
Responsible for developing and sustaining high-level key client relationships to promote organic and new business growth, enterprise-level solutions, and strategies. Accountable for overall account retention and growth of assigned clients. Driving strategy, creation and execution of all employer brand, employee comms & recruitment marketing activities across a portfolio of global accounts. Acting as a strategic partner for clients and helping them analyse and understand their audience and organizational needs and deliver creative multi-channel campaigns. Founded and currently heading up the agency’s DE&I practice, overseeing the work we do for clients in this space. Leading, coaching and developing a team of seven and overseeing a portfolio of accounts including Accenture, Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, DWS, Finastra, MSCI, AWS, Booking.com and Schlumberger among others.
Reporting to the Global Head of Campus Recruiting, Marketing and Branding with responsibility for the successful development and execution of the talent attraction and events strategy across EMEA. Key responsibilities Ensure that all campus activities directed at positioning Morgan Stanley as an industry leader are successfully carried out and accountable for firm wide campus relationships across our target universities. Develop a portfolio of innovative event offerings working closely with our graduate recruiters and BU alumni teams Develop, lead and manage the EMEA campus events team and ensure that event topics, programme themes, venues and audiences are researched, developed and executed to create compelling content relevant to our target audience and BU sponsors. Partner with key internal and external stakeholders to oversee the delivery of over 300 talent attraction events across EMEA annually, attracting a total of over 13000 students Oversee development and execution of the firm's campus media and communications plan Oversee planning and execution of the Morgan Stanley Global Universities Photo Competition in partnership with the Photographer's Gallery Oversee delivery of the firm's flagship Spring Insight Programme to ensure successful early talent attraction Develop and track the firm's comprehensive attraction and events budget and compile metrics and reports to measure ROI.
Responsible for the firm's graduate attraction strategy in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Italy. Worked closely with internal stakeholders and our target Universities in these regions to ensure attraction of the best talent for the firm's Spring, Summer and full-time Analyst programmes. Planned and executed the firm's events and marketing strategy for the above regions to guarantee maximum ROI. Key achievements Managed 80 events per year with total attendance of over 7000 students Initiated collaboration on the graduate talent front with high profile venues such as the British Museum, National Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Britain and the Ashmolean Museum - hosted events at all of the above venues Designed and implemented appropriate media placement and campaigns for attraction and brand building Managed the delivery of regular campus MIS to the business community and also on ad-hoc basis Managed the campus attraction budget across EMEA Implemented a series of ROI measures for on-campus investment Developed the firm's relationship with career services and other influential stakeholders
Key achievements in this role: Devised and implemented a consistent and robust employer relations strategy which has increased employer involvement with the University by 40% in 3 years Increased the number of career events held per year from 28 to 72 with a calendar which includes career fairs, panel discussions, presentations, skills workshops and tailor-made professional skills modules Supervised the implemention of a strong marketing and communications strategy, which has seen an increase in the number of students attending campus career events by 30% in 3 years Improved employer perceptions of the University as a provider of first class services by hosting a greater number of high quality events, improving channels of communication and responding more efficiently to queries Project managed the design and implementation of a new employer relations website which has resulted in increased employer and student traffic. Contributed to the development of an employability strategy for City University London. Secured lucrative sponsorship deals for our career fairs year after year by organisations such as Jaguar Land Rover, PwC, O2, KPMG, Npower and Macfarlanes. Developed and implemented a successful income generation strategy and secured an increase of 20% , via a number of commercial initiatives Secured funding to develop a Work Shadowing Programme for current students
Key achievements in this role: Introduced City's 3 large sector specific fairs covering finance, law and engineering/IT. Those events have now grown into the largest careers events on campus. Introduced a series of campus-based employability skills workshops, delivered by employers throughout the autumn and spring terms. Over 400 students in total attended these in the first year. Coordinated the promotion of our online vacancy advertising service to local SMEs, which resulted in 20% increase in service usage by those organisations. Built strong links with London based SMEs and multinational recruiters to increase the number of opportunities advertised at City. Coordinated City's first celebration of the National Enterprise Week, by inviting local SMEs to run presentations and attend networking events on campus. Over 20 SMEs and 250 students attended the event.