Cheslyn Hay, England, United Kingdom
For over 30 years I have been committed to furthering my recruitment and management competences. I have created recruitment companies & teams from scratch, sourcing and acquiring talent in diverse functional areas such as; Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, HR, Finance (perm & Temp), IT, Social Care, and Technical/Scientific. I have also personally recruited on both a retained and contingent basis throughout my career. My largest personal placement fee was invoiced at £36k when I placed a Managing Director within the UK arm of a US defence technology business. My most pleasing 'corporate' success to date, was the foundation & development of 'The Angel Services Group' (now branded as 'Coburg Banks'), our own highly successful, multi-function recruitment firm. I sold my share in that business in 2014 to focus exclusively on growing a recruitment brand more synonymous with filling senior management and board appointments. 'Gerard Peters' which I founded in 2009, now supports a range of global customers, in precisely that capacity. We regularly fill senior vacancies for our clients with salaries ranging between £60 -£150k. I still get a huge 'buzz' from successfully delivering talent into businesses and am proud to have delivered excellent talent to industry hundreds of times, supporting each individual through their personal process. A Mechanical Engineering graduate, I have a logical, technical appreciation of both manufacturing and business process combined with a high level of broad technical awareness. These facets help me enormously in fully understanding and communicating complex situations & scenarios when liaising between hiring managers and candidates, as well as closing high level pitches and coaching teams I have lead. Specialities: Recruiting, Man Management, training, Assessment, Forecasting, Building Businesses, Psychometric Assessment, New Business Development, Account Management, Coaching, Mentoring, Engineering, Manufacturing & Technology
I'm delighted to re-join Coburg Banks at a genuinely exciting time. Their adoption & service specific in-house development of recruitment specific AI processes in to their existing suite of tools feels genuinely 'game-changing'. It gives our recruiters unbeatable access to both 'hiring businesses' and potential candidates across all disciplines. The invitation from the Directors to collaborate with old friends again, while using these tools to optimise and harness the expertise developed through Gerard Peters is a fantastic opportunity for all concerned. Recruiting in the following disciplines :- Engineering Manufacturing Supply Chain Construction Operational Management My role is to provide our clients with the very best recruitment service available on the market today by combining awesome new technology with the highest quality recruitment processes, learned & honed over 30 years.
Gerard Peters has become a well regarded Talent Acquisition / Executive Recruitment firm, across many markets. With superbly placed offices in the Middle of the country, a genuine and talented team, and a truly enjoyable atmosphere, we feel we have a recipe for on-going success and growth. Whilst many try to recreate the wheel, we try to ensure it runs smoothly at all stages. We deliver what we promise, on time and within specification. Our current successes are due entirely to the level of personal service that our client's enjoy, and the quality of our advice. At Gerard Peters excellent delivery is more important than "self-image". To that end we constantly audit our processes and review our client's satisfaction levels. We are proud of our high rate of repeat business, our industry leading conversion ratios and the comfortable and confidential relationships we have built.
With 3 partners I opened and ran a successful, multi-sector permanent recruitment company. Over 7 years we grew functional teams managing assignments in; Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing / Engineering, F.M.C.G., Commercial, IT & Technology & Social Care. We filled positions across the whole of the UK, enjoying an enviable success rate. Late in 2009, I resigned my Directorship at Angel (while retaining ownership) to focus on developing Gerard Peters Ltd, a more boutique service provider and other personal business interests. In 2014 I subsequently sold my share in the business.
I set up and ran an 8 strong team of 'non-finance' recruiters covering positions from £25,000 to £80,000 across the Greater Midlands. While In this role I was also selected to be group brand champion for sales recruitment across all UK offices nationally, reporting and pitching to the board of directors each month, inputting on development strategy to improve output and performance. During this period, I was for a short time also seconded to manage a ten-strong office (of mainly Finance recruiters) in Nottingham and worked as a member of the National Business Development team who were tasked with 'Turbo-charging' vacancy leads which were deemed to offer development potential. This latter role meant I was regularly pitching nationally to a huge variety of industries on senior vacancies where 'retained business' may be a possible outcome. My earlier experience of winning National Accounts for a national recruitment business gave me a strong head start in this role and I enjoyed great success in supporting this group strategy.
I set up and managed a team of four national National Account Managers who were tasked with winning 'multi-vacancy' recruitment contracts with National clients in many industry sectors. Our sole task was to take vacancy leads from our national branch network and turn them in to national framework agreements, which in turn gave contractually bound clients, as controlled service levels and fees. It was calculated that at one point the revenues derived from our team comprised 20% of the revenue stream for AB branch network. I was a member of the senior management team and attended the monthly 'board meetings' at the CSG group HQ in Cambridgeshire.