Jun 2024 – May 2025 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

Nov 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos

Feb 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos

• Elastic is on a mission to organize data and make it easily accessible. We deliver the world’s the most advanced open source search and analytics engine available and make real-time data exploration available to anyone. By having a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, Elastic has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market. Today, Elasticsearch is used by thousands of enterprises in virtually every industry.
• Customer Success: http://www.elasticsearch.org/case-studies/
• http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/
• http://elasticsearch.meetup.com
• Analytics, Open Source, Logstash, Kibana, Enterprise Search, Big Data, Hadoop, Lucene, GitHub
• 450+ million downloads and counting...

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Workday is the leading SaaS provider offering cloud solutions for Human Capital Management, Financial Management and Spend Management. Founded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri in 2005, Workday is one of the most exciting stories in the software market of today. Companies such as Sanofi (110,000 employees), Philips (100,000 employees), Hewlett Packard (320,000 employees) and Thomson Reuters (73,000 employees) use cloud, social and mobile from Workday to power their businesses. In their last publication (June 16, 2016), Gartner announced Workday as the absolute leader in the HCM magic quadrant.
• Examples of just some of the awards highlights we have received are:
• 2015: Fortune magazine’s list of 100 Best Workplaces for Women
• 2015: Best places to work in Europe, Great Place to Work Institute
• 2015: Best places to work in the Bay Area, San Francisco Times (#1 for largest companies)
• 2015: Fortune just announced that we’re #22 on the list of 100 Best Companies to Work
• 2015: No. 4 Great Place to Work in Ireland ranking
• 2014: Top Technology Companies to Work For, Great Rated – Great Place to Work (#1 for large companies)
• 2014: Workday identified as a leader in “The Forrester Wave™: SaaS HR Management Systems, Q4 2014” - I have the report below, it is an interesting read
• 2014: Top Workplace, Bay Area News Group (#1 for large companies)
• 2014: Best Place to Work in the Bay Area, San Francisco Business Times (#2 for large companies)
• 2013: Best New Product or Service - Software - Financial Management Solution, Stevie® Award (Gold)
• For a really interesting read about our organisation you can visit: www.workday.com/company/about_workday.php
• Come be part of a company that is revolutionizing an industry!

Jul 2013 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Addlestone

• Recruitment Business Partner for delivery of sales, technical, back office and contract roles for the EMEA business, with full recruitment life cycle responsibility for 12 EMEA regions
• Supported expansions into additional regions in EMEA, including Turkey, Russia, and Dubai
• Partnered with senior management to explore appropriate strategies to source, assess and hire the most exceptional candidates
• Building a strong employer brand, integrating social media strategies; including Akamai careers page, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
• Vendor management including PSL contract negotiations
• Researching, applying and promoting diversity initiatives
• Weekly reporting to senior management

Feb 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Responsible for complete life cycle of recruitment for Senior appointments for multi site locations
• Investigation and utilisation of methods to source candidates directly including online job boards, local advertising, social media, headhunting
• Set up and monitoring of permanent and interim PSL
• Creation of job descriptions, competency based interview question sheets and online adverts for senior roles
• Comprehensive candidate response handling including feedback following interviews
• Interviewing of candidates via the telephone and face to face
• Management of offer process, including compilation of all relevant paperwork including references, ID and application forms
• Support for hiring managers with regard to recruitment policies and procedures, including interview techniques, either on one to one basic or via workshops
• Key stakeholder management to C Level
• Collation and production of recruitment reports on a weekly and monthly basis.

Aug 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

Dec 2008 – Aug 2009 · 8 mos

• Responsibility for a new contract resource managed service account of circa £10m
• Client and contractor presentations at various sites to ensure a full understanding of the s.com migration programme, including compilation of FAQs information
• Implemented fully integrated migration programme, resulting in circa £1m savings per year for the client. All contractor migrations completed within 12 months
• Maximum on site presence to include on site ‘surgeries’ for contractors
• Management of UK overseas contractors, including financial and legal constraints (double taxation, expenses)
• Ensuring that on boarding process is adhered to, including full authorisation and POs are obtained
• Consistent adherence to SLAs and KPIs, including continuous service improvement initiatives
• Weekly MI reporting into HR

Nov 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Project Management responsibility for implementation of a new release of Resource Management Tool to an on-site team, ensuring that the strict timelines were adhered to
• Production of issues log and chairing of weekly update meetings
• Understanding of the on-site team’s requirements through needs analysis meetings
• User acceptance testing of all new features to ensure smooth transition and minimum ‘down time’
• Production of weekly reporting to monitor progress of implementation
• Management of RFI and tender process to appoint new 2 tier suppliers, which ensured cost savings for the client

Mar 2007 – Nov 2007 · 8 mos

• Employed as Resource Demand Consultant dedicated to the Sales Support and Portfolio Team
• Building relationships with the Bid Team community to facilitate a streamlined delivery and continual deployment of resources for all bids
• Worked within the Bid Team to produce resource plans and forecasts and input into relevant tools
• Production and monitoring of Resourcing MI for the Bid Team
• Manage the progression and fulfillment of all resource requests on behalf of the Bid Team through continuous liaison and communication with Resourcing Supply team
• Representation of the Resourcing team at Key stakeholder meetings

Sep 2006 – Mar 2007 · 6 mos

• Responsibility for full life cycle of Recruitment process for Internal Operations (Finance, Sales, Supply Chain)
• Competency based interviewing of internal and external candidates
• Sourcing of direct candidates from job boards
• Managed preferred supplier recruitment agency relationships
• Pre-screening of candidates via telephone or face to face to provide a shortlist of candidates for the Hiring Manager
• Collation of recruitment reports on a weekly and monthly basis
• Stakeholder management

Dec 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Employed as a Business Resource Manager within a central team, responsible for all Resourcing issues surrounding business administration personnel across the business; in excess of 250 temporary staff
• Sole responsibility for the co-ordinatation and fulfillment of business administration requirements across the whole of the UK
• Set up master vendor agreement with a national agency to develop a saving on agency rates
• Supplier agency management, including holding quarterly feedback sessions
• Liaison with Senior Project Managers to develop a strategy for the timely delivery of staff
• Liaising with Recruitment to ensure back-fill strategies were implemented
• Interviewing new members of staff within the team
• Direct responsibility for another member of the team
• Responsible for graduate scheduling
• “People Manager” responsibilities for two employees, which included carrying out annual appraisals

Jul 2001 – Dec 2004 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Central point for all contractor/temporary conversions to permanent roles
• Contractor renewals
• Updating information on corporate intranet
• Support for Head of Operational Resourcing

Apr 1998 – Jul 2001 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Matching CVs and candidates with vacancies
• Telephone liaison between candidates and clients
• In Depth Interviewing and testing of candidates
• Developed and managed a number of key accounts
• Maintained high sales targets
• Cold calling to prospective clients
• Visiting new and existing clients, building confident relationships
• Writing advertisements in the local press to attract candidates

Jan 1993 – Jan 1995 · 2 yrs