Ben Hopkins

Technical Recruiter

London, England, United Kingdom20 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in global talent acquisition and recruitment.
  • Proven track record in building strong recruitment teams.
  • Skilled in engaging high-performing recruiters.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive experience in recruitment across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global Talent AcquisitionRecruitingBusiness Development

Other Skills

AccountancyBack Office OperationsCoachingCommunicationConsultancyConsultingCreative ResourcingCustomer ServiceDigitalEmployee TrainingFinance RecruitmentFront Office OperationsInterviewingInterviewsJob Coaching

About

πŸ“ž Experienced internal recruiter πŸ–ŠοΈ Writer of semi-useful words on LinkedIn πŸ™‹πŸ½β€β™€οΈ Husband to a really lucky wife πŸ‘ΆπŸΌ Father to an absolute lad 🏏 Captain for Burgess Hill Cricket Club πŸŒοΈβ€β™‚οΈ Bang average golfer πŸƒ Dreadful runner of short, medium and long distances πŸ₯§ Accomplished destroyer of baked goods 🎀 Karaoke enthusiast πŸ₯© Lover of meat

Experience

11 investments

Talent Engagement Lead

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Working under the 11 Investments banner, supporting the hiring requirements of all of our brands:
  • 3Search (Marketing, Digital, Sales & Product)
  • Tarka Talent (Consultancy, Change & Transformation)
  • Finrox (Finance - newly qualified to 4 years post-qualification)
  • Tenzing Search (Finance & Accounting - senior qualified appointments)
  • Fifteen West (Rec2Rec, Search2Search)
  • NearTech Search (Technology - UK & US)
  • Edenity (Product & Tech - Europe)
  • On top this I'm looking to speak to commercially minded, high performing recruiters who have considered setting up on their own. We've a couple of different options for you depending on how you want to run your business and can offer the relevant support across all back office functions - from L&D, TA, Finance, Marketing and more...
Talent EngagementRecruitmentBusiness DevelopmentGlobal Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Recruiter labs

Talent Engagement Lead

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Recruiter Labs offers start-up support and ongoing guidance and consultancy, to help you build the business you’ve always dreamed of running.
  • We take no equity and there’s no upfront cost. We have become the investors we wished we had.
Talent EngagementConsultancyRecruitingBusiness Development

3search

Talent Engagement Lead (via 11 Investments)

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Hiring for 3Search (11 Investments' OG business)
  • 3Search is a marketing, digital, sales & product recruitment agency that puts you at the heart of everything we do.
  • Working across a wide variety of businesses across the UK and North America, we recruit marketing, communications, digital, sales and product professionals into all industries.
  • 3Search was born from the desire to create a better customer experience in "go-to-market" recruitment. With over 1000 5-star Google reviews, we're delivering the best recruitment experience you'll ever have.
  • Our consultants are your partners. Each of our specialist recruiters have an unrivalled knowledge of the skillset and industry they recruit for. Plus, to ensure our status as industry experts and to continue delivering an excellent recruitment experience every time, we’re dedicated to providing our people with ongoing training and learning opportunities.
RecruitmentMarketingDigitalRecruitingBusiness Development

Neartech search

Talent Engagement Lead (via 11 Investments)

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· Manchester Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Hiring for NearTech Search.
  • NearTech Search are the recruitment partner of choice for tech-driven companies who prioritise building a positive and collaborative culture no matter where or how their technology departments work.
  • As the digital workplace environment has evolved, so have the challenges in maintaining and building the right company culture – whether that’s building a technology team nationally with remote / hybrid working or through international growth, NearTech Search tailor our approach to find you the best talent technically and right talent culturally.
  • We are specialists in niche and innovative technology markets across North America and Europe.
RecruitmentTechnologyRecruitingBusiness Development

Tarka talent

Talent Engagement Lead (via 11 Investments)

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Hiring for Tarka Talent.
  • Tarka Talent specialises in consulting and transformation recruitment, offering unmatched rigour, expertise, and reliability.
  • Our team, composed of seasoned management consultants and expert recruiters, focuses on the UK, North America, Europe, and the Middle East markets.
  • We pride ourselves on forming genuine partnerships with employers, deeply understanding their business needs to ensure both cultural and skillset matches.
ConsultingRecruitmentRecruitingBusiness Development

Tenzing search

Talent Engagement Lead (via 11 Investments)

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Hiring for Tenzing Search.
  • Tenzing Search is a specialist Finance and Accountancy Search business. We specialise in Senior Qualified appointments across the UK and USA, focusing on both Interim and Permanent appointments across all sectors.
  • We believe that partnering, supporting and guiding our clients, is the only way to navigate the recruitment process. Just like Tenzing Norgay, one of the first people ever to summit Everest, he ensured that his client, Edmund Hillary, reached the summit. They worked together to achieve success and we believe that this is the very essence of a successful partnership in recruitment.
Finance RecruitmentAccountancyRecruitingBusiness Development

Edenity.

Talent Engagement Lead (via 11 Investments)

Jan 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 2 mos Β· London Area, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Hiring for edenity.
  • We partner with VC backed product scale-ups, investors and professional services businesses to engage the best tech talent, as flexibly as possible - offering consultancy on how to blend permanent, project and fractional talent in the most intelligent way, for their stage of product maturity and growth.
  • Core skill focus areas:
  • ML/AI Engineering & Product Experts
  • Back & Frontend Development
  • Product Management
  • UX/UI Design
  • Leadership & Advisory
Tech Talent EngagementConsultancyRecruitingBusiness Development

Altura partners ltd

Head of Talent Acquisition & Operational Support

Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 Β· 2 mos Β· Brighton, England, United Kingdom Β· Hybrid

  • Formerly Usurpo - Altura Partners connects SaaS companies and digital consultancies with exceptional talent across North America, EMEA, and APAC From VC/PE-backed ventures to public corporations, we specialise in delivering transformative Search and Scale hiring solutions.
  • Focusing on scaling Altura Partners as well as working closely with the Founders & Managing Partners to support the business operationally.
  • Search: Precision-driven executive recruitment for CxO, SVP, VP, and Director roles.
  • Scale: Streamlined, efficient multi-role hiring, making panic hiring a thing of the past.
Talent AcquisitionOperational SupportRecruitingBusiness Development

Usurpo

2 roles

Head of Talent Acquisition & Operational Support

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 Β· 1 yr 11 mos Β· Brighton, England, United Kingdom

  • Still focusing on growing Usurpo but with additional responsibilities supporting the senior leadership team with the smooth running of the overall business. Assisting the consultants in moving faster and not having to focus too much on admin and concentrate on driving revenue.
Talent AcquisitionOperational SupportRecruitingBusiness Development

Talent Acquisition Manager

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Β· 1 yr Β· Brighton, England, United Kingdom

  • Working with the senior leadership team to achieve our hiring targets for 2022 and beyond.
  • Usurpo focus on the commercial Cyber Security, Enterprise Software and Digital space. We work across predominantly permanent assignments on a contingent and retained basis, with the majority of our geographical focus being within the EMEA and US regions.
  • Our Directors have over 40 years of experience in global technology recruitment, are still very much "on the tools" and have a desire to grow Usurpo into something very special. There's an open door policy on ideas to improve the business, no matter how big or small.
  • Usurpo offers an adult environment, where working from home and management of your hours is encouraged rather than queried; an awesome commission structure offering 40% to go alongside the strongest salaries I've seen in any city; opportunities for people starting out their recruitment careers, Resourcers, Account Managers, Business Developers and 360 Recruiters.
  • Get in touch to learn more!
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingBusiness Development

Mrl consulting group

Group Talent Acquisition Manager

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 Β· 1 yr 5 mos Β· Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom Β· On-site

  • MRL are a global semiconductor recruitment business, working on both commercial and technical roles.
  • Reporting to both the CEO and Group Ops Director, my role was help grow the Brighton, Sophia Antipolis (Nice) and Dresden offices. I made hires across both front and back office - from Resourcers through to Principal Consultants to Accountants, EAs and Office managers. I also assisted with re-writing the induction programme as well as delivering training on how to write LinkedIn content.
SourcingRecruiting

Hunted

2 roles

Manager - Talent Advocacy (Covid Redundancy)

Apr 2019 – Jul 2020 Β· 1 yr 3 mos Β· Hybrid

  • Upon being promoted I was able to manage and mentor a couple of interns with a view to moving them eventually into full-time roles. Unfortunately they, along with the majority of the workforce were cut due to the pandemic.
SourcingRecruiting

Senior Talent Advocate

May 2018 – Apr 2019 Β· 11 mos Β· Hybrid

  • Hunted were a SaaS platform for recruitment businesses to market themselves to potential future employees:
  • My role at Hunted was predominantly to partner with recruitment businesses looking to make their next hire as part of the "Talent Pool" model. This was essentially working with 4 clients at any time, giving each client 1 day a week of focus, for 12 weeks with an aim of making a minimum of 1 hire in this time. Because I'm based in Sussex, the majority of my clients were typically within the home counties (outside of London), and predominantly tech-focused businesses.
SourcingRecruiting

Proco global group

2 roles

Head of Talent Acquisition for The Americas

Promoted

Aug 2017 – May 2018 Β· 9 mos

  • With almost half of our offices being in the Americas, I put my hand up to make the move to New York where I handled all of the internal hiring across Vancouver, New York, LA, Mexico City and Sao Paulo. As well as the commodities piece, I was hiring recruiters within Life Sciences, Consumer Goods & FMCG, Tech and Food & Beverage across the Supply Chain.
SourcingRecruiting

Talent Acquisition

Apr 2015 – Aug 2017 Β· 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Initially joined as the first TA hire for Proco Commodities (then Commodity Search Partners), a 10 person recruitment business focused the physical commodity space. My role was hiring recruiters for our Brighton, Singapore, New York and Los Angeles offices. Multiple placements made across all 4 offices at various level, from Researcher/Resourcer through to Managing Consultant. After just under a year we merged with Proco Global where I became part of a TA team, where as well as the existing office sites, we also supported Hong Kong, Bangkok, Vancouver, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, London and Frankfurt.
Recruiting

Avanta

2 roles

Employer Relationship Manager

Promoted

May 2014 – Mar 2015 Β· 10 mos

Job Coach

Nov 2013 – May 2014 Β· 6 mos

American express

2 roles

Head Trainer/Coach

Sep 2010 – Oct 2013 Β· 3 yrs 1 mo Β· Brighton, United Kingdom

Sales Agent

Aug 2006 – Sep 2010 Β· 4 yrs 1 mo Β· Brighton, United Kingdom

Aig

Sales Agent/Team Leader

Dec 2004 – Jul 2006 Β· 1 yr 7 mos Β· Burgess Hill

Education

Haywards Heath College

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004

Oakmeeds Community College

Jan 1998 – Jan 2003

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