About me
I am inquisitive, passionate and collaborative - with broad experience across team management, Talent, HR and project lead. Artist and former Marketeer, I always strive to better myself and the team around me, thinking differently to drive excellence.
I always aim to forge the very best relationships, to continually learn and to balance personal, team, ethical and business priorities. I have a mix of the creative and analytical, cutting through complexity and communicating effectively.
I am passionate about putting people together; and working as smartly as possible to achieve it.
Work history
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Talent Acquisition ManagerHyperoptic
London, United KingdomFull Time
We are the UK’s fastest 1 Gig speed broadband consumer brand, a major disruptor to the established top 4. With £750m of investment in the last 12 months, we are also one of The Times TechTrack top 20 businesses.
I manage a team of 6 in the UK and Serbia, responsible for c800 hires in FY18 and 1,500 planned for FY19. I am responsible also for my own roles, as well as delivering strategic projects. The pace is unrelenting, but incredibly enjoyable.
Key responsibilities:
▪ Team Management – I have introduced 360o appraisals and pulse/heartbeat feedback, as well as more functional ownership and a partnering approach. I have engaged our PMO to bring consistency to our 15 key projects and ways-of-working. I have also initiated more effective team meetings, recognition and idea generation sessions – including better metrics tracking and how we face into challenges.
▪ Core recruitment delivery – The nature and volume of roles means a flexible and hands-on approach is required. Legacy, pace and processes mean that accurate forecasting is an evolving journey - a constant balance for me of resource planning, core metrics and immediate business need:
o Volume recruitment: I restructured our engineering assessment centres and approach, c100 hires per month. I put in place better use of resources, refocused our referral scheme, introduced new sourcing tools and focused on candidate journey – I cut weekly assessments in half for the team, but increased attendance and offer conversion.
o New function recruitment and benchmarking: I have recruited 5 new teams in the UK and Serbia - across our marketing, customer experience, R&D, PMO/Transformation and sales functions.
o Senior and C-suite recruitment: I owned the stakeholder management of our recent senior leadership restructuring - focusing on partner selection, recruitment process, testing and comms.
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Resourcing ManagerBritvic
- London, United KingdomFull Time
FTSE250, £1.7bn t/o, 5,000 employees and 30+ leading brands – including Pepsi, Robinsons, Fruit Shoot, Purdeys, Lipton, J2O, 7UP, Tango and R.Whites. Currently ranked in the Great Place To Work ® survey, as one of the UK’s best large companies to work for.
Key responsibilities:
My role evolved to take on additional team management, a global remit, Great Place To Work® and project lead. Our team is responsible for c.1,000 global hires and 3-4 projects each a year:
o Line management: Something I am incredibly passionate about; coaching, performance and planning.
o Functional lead/partnering: Forecasting, budgeting, reporting and continuous improvement. I partner with HRBP/HRD’s on benchmarking, cross-functional mapping and mobility.
o End-to-end recruitment: Core positions up to executive level, including all graduate schemes.
o Project Lead: Budget/time setting and control, delivery, stakeholder management and subject expert status.
Skills
- Recruitment
- Employer Branding
- Talent Acquisition
- 2D Artist