Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · United Kingdom · Remote

Feb 2025 – Jul 2025 · 5 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

Jul 2024 – Jan 2025 · 6 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

• Leading end-to-end technical and commercial recruitment across EMEA for a high-growth AdTech and AI company.
• Designed and executed data-driven hiring strategies that aligned talent acquisition with business objectives across 5 markets.
• Partnered with senior stakeholders to define role requirements and optimise the hiring process for engineering, product, and go-to-market functions.
• Delivered consistent candidate experience excellence, from sourcing through onboarding & reflected in >90% positive candidate feedback.

May 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Responsible for 12+ business units acrossEMEA. Hiring across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Commercial teams.
• Owned and delivered end-to-end recruitment strategy for EMEA, hiring 50+ professionals across tech, data, and commercial roles.
• Partnered with VPs and Directors to align hiring plans with headcount forecasts and market intelligence.
• Implemented sourcing automation and proactive pipelines, cutting agency spend by 40%.
• Measured and reported key hiring metrics (pipeline health, offer-acceptance, time-to-fill) to drive continuous improvement.

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · Remote

• Built out the Digital capability stream: Software Engineering, Delivery, Design, and Cyber Security for one of the UK’s most respected consulting firms.
• Designed innovative sourcing campaigns for high-demand technical profiles.
• Improved interview-to-offer conversion by 25% through structured stakeholder briefings and candidate engagement strategy.
• Partnered with hiring leads to standardise recruitment processes and drive consistent hiring decisions across regions.

Jan 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · Remote

• Delivered high-impact sourcing and talent intelligence for a global biopharma organization, supporting both manufacturing and technical operations functions across EMEA.
• Built and managed strategic sourcing pipelines across multiple technical disciplines, reducing reliance on external suppliers.
• Conducted talent mapping, competitor analysis, and skills forecasting to anticipate hiring needs.
• Produced data-led insights reports for business leaders, improving talent planning and workforce analytics.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• Owned global hiring across London, New York, and Shanghai offices, building a scalable talent acquisition framework across all business functions.
• Recruited for Engineering, Product, Marketing, Editorial, and Operations functions.
• Established a consistent interview and feedback framework using Greenhouse ATS.
• Managed agency partnerships, improved direct sourcing ratio from 30% → 75%.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• Led recruitment for a creative-tech startup through a rapid scale phase, hiring across creative, product, operations, and leadership roles.
• Built a unified hiring process covering 10+ departments.
• Implemented ATS (Workable) and standardised metrics reporting.
• Improved time-to-hire and candidate experience through continuous process optimisation.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• Head up and grew the the permanent UX appointments department delivering solutions across Design, Creative, Marketing, Product and Ecommerce markets.
• Industry specialist consulting with the most progressive Digital and User-Centric businesses.
• Engaged with client teams directly to ensure a truly hands-on approach that is effective and tailor made to requirement.
• Worked with a talented and growing team to source, screen and deliver the best calibre talent whilst ensuring the best candidate experience possible.
• About Salt:
• Salt is an award-winning global recruitment agency at the forefront of everything that is pioneering in digital.
• Business Development -sales - contract negotiation - cold calling

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• 360 client facing consultant delivering permanent and contract solutions to both brand/in-house and agencies.
• Working with mid-weight to senior appointments across a spectrum of Designers and Creatives: UX, UI, Flash and Motion Designers, Creative Directors, Art Directors and Copywriters.
• Built my desk by adding 10 new companies and 20 new hiring managers to the database a week. Sending out 25 CVs weekly, 15 to live vacancies 10 to speculatively to hot leads and attending 2 client meetings a week.
• Business Development -sales - contract negotiation - cold calling
• About Source LF:
• Source LF are an award-winning company delivering talent across the creative and media landscape and to the broader communications industry.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• 360 consultant specialising in permanent and contract Digital Creative’s, solely for brand/-inhouse
• Working with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Editors, Content Managers etc.
• Sourcing candidates from job boards, databases via boolean searching, advertising, referrals and social sourcing. Registering 4 candidates over the phone and meeting one face to face daily.
• Business Development -sales - contract negotiation - cold calling
• About Ecom:
• ECOM are the UK’s leading Digital Recruitment specialist

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Bangor, Northern Ireland