Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Currently in a unique role focused on collaborating globally across all business units within Talend, improving processes, building candidate pipelines, reducing time-to-hire, and eliminating agency spending - enabling us to recruit at speed whilst delivering a best-in-class candidate experience.
• Key achievements & impact:
• Built and maintained a searchable, scalable pool of historically strong performing candidates that we want to re-engage with, and implemented a “CRM 1st” approach, delivering the following ROI across FY21 & FY22:
• 10.3% of all hires came from previously engaged candidates
• Reduction of time-to-hire to give “empty chair cost” savings of over 689 days / $626K+
• Decrease in interview time for interviewers/hiring managers, saving a further 1,017 hours / $114K+
• Average of 12 days faster time-to-hire, with fastest end-to-end placement of 6 hours
• Eliminated the need for search altogether in some instances, with multiple examples of 1 candidate > 1 hire, and 1 interview > 1 hire
• Continuous nurture via campaigns & direct touch to growing pool of 7K+ “Consider for future” candidates
• Talent Acquisition “MVP” Award (EMEA) – 2021
• People Team “Starling” Award (Global) – 2022
• C&E “Candidate Experience” Award (EMEA) – 2022 (Team Award)
• Recent initiatives:
• Direct sourcing to ramp up hiring for a newly created R&D team in Portugal, having already delivered 130+ candidates to pipeline, resulting in 4 Hires + 4 Offers in Q1 FY23
• Based on CRM success, now responsible for strategy and targets to increase hires from Referrals & Internal Mobility
• Following completion of external training, now executing a complete overhaul of job postings/advertisements across all business units
• Co-creating "Hiring for Success" training for Hiring Managers and Interviewers, to deliver better candidate experience and reduce candidate withdrawal mid-process

Apr 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs

• My role is to proactively engage with top talent in the market, and match personal career aspirations to opportunities within Talend's future hiring plans.
• Some of our best hires have come from relationships that have been built over months, sometimes even years, and by starting the conversation early to understand peoples values and motivations, we aim to be able to position the right opportunities to people, at the right time for them, therefore leading to better candidate experience, more accurate & faster hiring, and ultimately create positive, long term careers within Talend.
• Get in touch to discuss your career aspirations, and a potential future career at Talend.

Apr 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr

• Working as a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, I combine recruitment marketing and traditional candidate attraction strategies, to deliver a forward thinking approach to proactively engaging with the software talent community, setting up Talend for success by ensuring we have access to game changing individuals across all future critical hires within the organisation, for 2020 and beyond!

Nov 2018 – Apr 2019 · 5 mos · Global

• Following 3 weeks in hospital and a further 2 months in recovery, I decided to take time out to travel and spend time with family, before coming back to a new challenge.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Founding member of a brand-new Technology Sales business unit within Robert Walters, recruiting for GTM & customer facing positions ranging from SDRs to VPs for technology vendors, whether pre-IPO start-ups looking to put their first person on the ground, through to acting as a natural extension to the Talent Acquisition teams of multi $B global vendors.
• Key achievements & impact:
• Sole recipient of the annual “Top Achiever” award (Regional) - 2017
• Account managed/serviced what became the regions second largest account ($30B software vendor)
• 95% success rate for roles worked/placed FY17 – FY18 (average 4:1 candidate to placement ratio)
• £170K+ new business revenue achieved FY17 – FY18
• High Achievers Club Q3 2017 + Highest revenue (non-Principal Consultant) in the UK
• High Achievers Club Q1 2018 + Highest revenue in the region

Jan 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom · On-site

• 08/2015 – 07/2016 | Headhunter/Recruitment Consultant - Information Security BU
• 01/2014 – 07/2015 | Senior Sourcer - Telecommunications BU (RPO)
• Recruiting for GTM & customer facing positions, initially attached to an RPO with Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia), I was subsequently promoted into a full Consultant role, and switched to focus on Cyber Security vendors across EMEA.
• Key achievements & impact:
• Global #1 Delivery Consultant Q1 2016
• “Outstanding Placement of the Year” Award - 2015
• Achievers Club Q2 2016
• Achievers Club Q1 2016
• Achievers Club Q4 2015
• £0 - £167K revenue within 12 months, upon joining Cyber Security team
• On track to exceed target at time of leaving, with £113K revenue/70% of target YTD
• Recruited successfully in 16+ countries across EMEA+R

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom · On-site

• This was a full 360 recruitment role and encompassed all aspects of recruitment for contract IT Infrastructure roles across Warwickshire and the East Midlands region.

Nov 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Birmingham · On-site

• Responsible for my own high-volume temporary placement desk, sourcing/placing upwards of fifty temporary workers weekly, whilst also successfully managing the back-office administration team.

Jul 2009 – Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom

• All administration and office management for large research and consultancy office of 90+ staff

Apr 2009 – Jul 2009 · 3 mos

• Following the financial crisis of 2008 (Credit Crunch), I was made redundant.

Jun 2006 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Promoted from Senior Administrator to Office Manager - Led a team of three administrators + all office management/back-office administration and sales support, for an office of 40+ people.

Sep 2004 – Sep 2006 · 2 yrs · Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Promoted from Administrator, to Senior Administrator and then Regional Administration/Sales Support Team lead. Led a team of five administrators across the East and West Midlands + all other sales support, office management and back-office administration duties.