May 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Hired to strategically partner with BPP's newly appointed Product & Technology Senior Leadership Team as the business entered a new phase of growth and digital transformation. Reporting into the CPTO to hire a new 100+ person technology department.
• Successfully delivered on 12-month hiring plan with over 40 new perm hires achieved within first 6 months, hiring roles of Mid, Senior, Principal and department head levels across Engineering, Product, Product/Service Design, Delivery & Data achieving an offer acceptance rate of +90% and cost saving of over £500,000.

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

• Unlock your potential and create your path to success!
• Offering an online career coaching service:
• 🏥 CV Surgery
• 🚀 Career Launchpad
• Either a simple CV review service which is my "CV Surgery" or for those needing some extra support and guidance with their job search I offer my "Career Launchpad" package.
• All coaching sessions will be personalised to fit your goals and help you unlock your potential and create your path to success!

Jul 2022 – Jan 2023 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Hired as Ziglu's first talent hire to lead on scaling the business across the UK and Europe with a pending acquisition by Robinhood as part of their European expansion plans. Unfortunately the acquisition was curtailed within 6 months of joining and my role was made redundant.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Joined as a Talent Partner and was promoted to Talent Acquisition Manager within 6 months where I was responsible for line managing one other talent partner and for leading Curve’s efforts in attracting, hiring and retaining the best talent across Engineering, Data & Product.
• Joining during a period of hypergrowth after the business had secured series C funding, played an instrumental part in growing the business from 260 to 450+ employees across the UK, EU and US.
• Individually hired over 30 engineers in first 6 months of joining across backend, mobile, QA and engineering managers.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders (CEO, COO, CTO, Directors of Engineering, Senior Engineering Managers, Heads of Product & Design) to scope, and define hiring requirements and execute on building a world-class technology function achieving an average of 4 hires per month and average time to hire of under 30 days.
• Leading a small team of x1 Talent Partner and supported by x2 Talent co-ordinators, responsible for coaching, mentoring, 1-2-1’s, career progression and development.
• Successfully implemented successful partnerships and initiatives with Inclusion and Diversity partners including - The Tech Talent Charter.
• Responsible for continuous improvement of recruitment operations and building highly scalable, maintainable and best-in-class hiring processes bringing the average time to hire across group technology from +40 days to -30 days.
• Lead research and market mapping initiative to aid in opening a new European office, hiring the founding engineering team in Vilnius, Lithuania growing the team from 0-10.

Mar 2021 – Sep 2021 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• After a successful 1-month secondment I joined on a permanent basis. In my role here I was responsible for end-to-end recruiting for all roles across the NewsUK technology division. (500+ employees).
• Utilising a variety of talent sourcing methods and platforms including, LinkedIn Recruiter, Hired & StackOverflow to build diverse pools of talent.
• Assisting in building employer brand and tech community by co-ordinating and arranging monthly in-person tech meet-ups.
• Automated workflows to streamline processes where possible achieving an average time to hire of under 30 days.
• Exposure to recruiting for technology in a large corporate environment, multitasking and juggling hiring for up to 10-15 roles at any one given time.
• A diversity and inclusion champion looking to increase the diversity of the workforce to be more representative of the community we live in.

Feb 2019 – Mar 2019 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• My first in-house role where I was the first talent hire brought in to support the People team following the business acquisition by NewsUK. Hired to alleviate the reliance on recruitment agencies and focus on direct hiring with my main attention on Technical roles but also fully responsible for attracting, sourcing and building pipelines of talent across the entire business.
• Solely responsible for running the full recruitment process driving direct hire recruitment during a period of hyper growth doubling the size of the tech team from 40- 80+ in a year.
• Enhance the employer brand through the use of social media, attendance to events, relationships with suppliers, links with professional bodies, universities and other institutions. Organising staff speaking events at UEL.
• Pipelining talent, actively meeting and engaging with talent and maintaining relationships for future opportunities.
• Work as part of the People Team ensuring an understanding of the business challenges and building key relationships with various stakeholders across the business including CTO, CFO and various exec members.
• Diversity hiring ensuring adherence to equitable hiring practices. Whilst partnering with Makers Academy and Founders & Coders to talent pool diverse talent achieving a 30+% female to male gender diversity in tech.

Apr 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• My first role in recruitment where I worked for one of the UK’s largest and most established recruitment agencies at Reed. Where I worked in the Reed Accountancy Division as a temporaries recruitment consultant specialising in temporary finance and accountancy recruitment into Media, Communications, Sales and Marketing industries in a 360 degree recruitment role.
• Building a tempories desk from scratch to deploying 6+ temporary staff to multiple clients at any one time.
• Worked towards daily, weekly and monthly KPI’s- Money billed, sales calls, client meetings, candidate calls, candidate registrations, interviews, bookings taken + many others.
• Responsible for new client development, building rapport and working relationships with multiple clients and hiring managers, and bringing in new business.
• Developed a strong pool of immediately available contractors ready to deploy to urgent projects/placements.

Oct 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Asia, Australia, New Zealand & South America

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Amigo Loans is a financial technology company launched in 2005, the UK's first guarantor loans company. My role was working within the sales department as a caseworker, managing a case list of loan applications carrying out various checks and ensuring affordability of applicants.

May 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Poole, United Kingdom

• Sports and Leisure Management (SLM Ltd.) is the longest established leisure contractor in the UK. My role was based across multiple sites during my time as a membership sales consultant.