London, England, United Kingdom
Personal Profile An accomplished talent acquisition partner with strong candidate/client relationship building and management skills. Self-motivated with the ability to effectively work autonomously or as part of a larger infrastructure. Experienced in working throughout the full recruitment life cycle. Commercially astute individual practised at working within defined service level agreements. Highly developed inter-personal skills adept at communicating with junior staff through to board level. Competent at identifying the needs of clients and candidates enabling the formation of sound business relationships.
Leading Teams on Talent Delivery for Data, Insights, Tech, Corporate functions and Creatives.
Leading a team of Talent Managers in delivering the recruitment needs of GroupM and its agencies for roles in the Data, Insights, and Tech space.
Working for the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company with over 76,000 employees covering Talent Acquisition for their Technical services / Engineering, IT, Community Services, Law and Research business functions recently and in the past within the Downstream and Upstream businesses. Managing the Global recruitment of up to 250 plus senior expatriate professionals per year leading the Aramco business functions, overseeing Aramco affiliate offices and 3rd party suppliers whilst ensuring a direct model was in place for candidates obtained within the UAE region. Headed up major recruitment workshops in the UK & Ireland, USA, South Africa, India, Philippines and the UAE ensuring all sourcing requirements where defined with proponents prior to developing the sourcing strategy with our affiliate offices or 3rd party suppliers. Negotiated with all successful candidates whilst selling Saudi Aramco’s EVP and working with processing to ensure candidates relocations where stream lined. I was involved in developing various recruitment specific training material and delivered it to cross functional teams ensuring alignment to the Saudi Aramco HR objectives. Training of recent Saudi graduates in the Saudi Aramco recruitment process.
Due to the recent Project Management experience obtained in my previous role I was asked to be part of the Source Area team. The main task was to help develop a new recruitment PSL whilst working with the contracts team to improve our T&C’s in order to reduce costs. I Identified potential global and regional recruitment agencies, confirmed the short lists, defined the detail for the RFP’s and integrated the newly identified agencies within the Saudi Aramco recruitment processes through training and working with our systems teams to integrate our systems. Worked on a project to identify the viability of setting up a new Saudi Aramco affiliate office in Asia to fall in line with our approach of having affiliate offices in Europe and the America’s. Helped in the development of how to determine our EVP whilst always working on adhoc recruitment projects for senior management.
Project Management role implementing a Price Optimisation piece of Software into a Global FMCG retailer. Worked with global teams based throughout Europe (client) and with the developments teams (UK, USA and India) ensuring all project milestones where being considered. Worked with Program Managers to ensure my project deliverables where in line with the overall program.
Recruitment within the Core Delivery Department which incorporates all I.T. functions of the business. Like before I was determined to reduce the reliance on recruitment agencies therefore set about working with management to obtain the tools to make this possible. Responsibilities • Like previously planning recruitment requirements, managing recruitment campaigns and driving the assessment and selection processes. • Complete lifecycle recruitment process from requirement identification, job profile development, candidate identification through to placement. • Contracts Management – Adaptation and review of all dh recruitment agency contracts and master agreements. • Candidate Screening – face to face and telephonic candidate interviewing to ensure technical and cultural fit. Achievements • Developed new PSL with more favourable terms. • Developed material and delivered training on competency based recruitment to all hiring managers throughout the company. • Cut costs by 70% due to developing a more direct recruitment model and agreeing more favourable terms with new and current recruitment suppliers. • Identified to take an interim role in project management • Met all project milestones for Pricstrat implementation.
I joined EDS as they were in the process of introducing a direct recruitment model to fall in line with their Americas and AP operations. I was excited by the challenge and played a pivotal role in ensuring this change was achieved, bringing 100% agency recruitment to a 78% direct model within a year. I worked across the application, infrastructure, Project management and executive divisions of the business. More recently we have been acquired by HP were I initially worked alongside my new colleagues carrying out integration projects. More recently I have been involved in a pilot scheme called strategic sourcing which aims to make changes to the current HP recruitment model. This has been successful and I have taken the lead role for this initiative in the UK&Europe Responsibilities included: • Planning recruitment requirements, managing recruitment campaigns and driving the assessment and selection processes. • Planning, running and facilitating assessment centres to ensure a thorough, compliant and professional approach. • Managing 2 Off Shore recruiters who are tasked with pipelining candidates for the business demand. • Mentor and train recruiters in recruitment best practice. • Developing and adapting selection materials to ensure alignment with Excellence programmes. • Partnering with hiring managers to ensure the right, talented individuals are attracted to their vacancies. • Reporting on recruitment metrics to monitor and measure recruitment sources, costs and timelines. • Attracting high potential and high performing external talent from a variety of sources by selling the EDS / HP brand. • Demonstrating excellent selection and assessment skills and offer coaching and training to hiring managers on an ongoing basis. • Successfully managing a dynamic and fast pace work load, whilst maintaining high standards and keeping stakeholders informed.