Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Lead recruiter for executive hiring, technology, finance and HR across EMEA, reducing agency
• spend by over £1.2m in first year and down from 35% reliance to 20%
• 360 degree hiring across public affairs, marketing, store development and design, operations and RTD channel development teams
• Proactive sourcer, focussed on providing market intelligence and insights to c suite hiring leaders with a focus on creating inclusive talent pools and future leader talent pipelines
• DEI talent strategy lead driving best practices across HR and SBUX EMEA
• Co-leading employer branding and candidate experience best practice strategies in conjunction with launch of brand new EVP strategy
• Recruitment agency spend management, PSL management and supplier relationship management lead
• Coaching and upskilling peers in team
• Project leading and continuous management on various initiatives eg TA/HR SLA’s and process maps, onboarding, hiring manager training, EVP, internal engagement, rewards and recognition programmes
• Co Engagement Pillar lead for the internal Starbucks EMEA women’s network

Mar 2023 – Sep 2023 · 6 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• via Resource Solutions
• Strategic corporate hiring within EMEA, collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders for roles up to VP level across business recruiting, executive hiring, news, sport & production
• Mapping talent strategies from scratch and building teams from scratch
• Talent strategies inclusive of Tupe, during a merger/acquisition
• Creating sourcing strategies in collaborating with hiring teams, inclusive of proactive headhunting
• Process efficiency projects - ATS (Workday), process mapping and role responsibility in the recruitment process with HR & recruitment operations
• DEI strategic projects, building trusted partnerships with BRG and external organisations
• Recruiting roles in sales, procurement, compensation and benefits, legal, finance, marketing, digital, compliance, public affairs, production, gaming across UK, EMEA & Nordics.

Sep 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• R4R hiring sprint to build Metaverse - active headhunting for technical recruiters specialised in AI, ML, VR
• Global hiring for HR, facilities, finance and legal
• DEI - community board for Disability@ and Women@ BRG's
• Community - co-lead for DJ at Meta London BRG, focus on raising engagement for female DJ's, organising events with events team and office management, facilities & security, continous engagement of group, PO's, invoicing, events planning

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Adaptavist helps 5 million developers build better software and is the market leader to Atlassian.
• Core focusses:
• Managing a variety of strategic hiring projects and scaling teams across various functions, levels and countries - recruiting in North America (Toronto, New York, San Diego, Springfield, Montreal) and Europe (Madrid, Seville, Estonia, UK), Asia (Malaysia), some from complete scratch
• Executive hiring
• Identifying opportunities for process improvement, leading and participating on project teams to help design, develop, and deploy the global processes and ways of working - launching approval processes, and launching candidate and hiring manager surveys
• Strong collaboration with hiring managers with setting the recruiting strategy, driven by data and insights
• Proactive candidate sourcing and building of talent pipelines via Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Github & Stack Overflow, as well as DEI partnerships eg WORK180
• Drive attraction strategy and launching employer branding strategic plan with internal marketing team and participate in the creation of internal talent initiatives
• Support on broader talent initiatives such as headcount plans, talent pipelining and succession plans
• Hiring for software engineers, QA, front and back end developers, data, UX, DevOps, cloud engineers, Atlassian consultants, business consultants, sales, account managers, partnerships, finance, HR, recruitment, events, marketing

Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Recruiting globally across commercial and product teams, spanning from brand partnerships, technology, support and account management to expansion teams in new territories.
• Executive hiring
• Effectively managing the full lifecycle of interviews for all DICE candidates across teams; ensuring a proactive and positive candidate experience.
• Launching candidate and hiring manager surveys to understand recruitment experience from feedback and using it to improve processes
• Proactive sourcing through X ray sourcing techniques, LI, GitHub, Stack Overflow, social media strategies, specialist job boards, Boolean searching, tags via ATS, referrals, market mapping
• Managing global referral scheme.
• Collaborating with hiring managers on recruitment strategies and strategic pipelining.
• Working with internal Creative and Branding teams to create engaging content aligned to our employer brand strategy via the first Dice talent playbook for investors
• Hiring for commercial and product teams, panning from brand partnerships, engineering, account management and creating new teams in new territories eg Europe and US

Nov 2017 – Sep 2018 · 10 mos

• Recruiting across tech & non tech within Western Europe - all levels up to VP, collaborating with a range of hiring leaders to create a tailored recruiting strategy
• Partnership with external vendors
• Employer branding iniatives - partnering with a range of stakeholders globally to revamp careers site and build social and content strategy for Facebook & LinkedIn
• Hiring for brand new LEGO Leceister Square store from scratch and other brand retail stores in the UK
• Hiring for LEGO Education across the UK
• Creation of DEI iniatives
• Onboarding:
• Ensuring successful onboarding programme for the new hires in collaboration with internal stakeholders (e.g. Facilities, IT, HR Services, etc.)
• Hiring social media roles, data, marketing, operations, procurement, finance, leadership positions, HR, IT, software developers (front and back end), mobile engineers, gaming, facilities, video

Jun 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Recruiting up to Senior Management level within Western Europe across varied departments including social media, technology, finance, ecommerce, IT, marketing, sales and more!
• Joint lead global employer branding project to increase our online presence and be seen as an employer of choice
• Writing creative job adverts for all vacancies in Western Europe to attract the relevant talent and to keep on brand
• Onboarding of all new starters including contract and offer letter production and setting up all new hires on SAP, ensuring data management is on top of and compliant with various EU legislation
• Running bi-weekly assessment centres with strategic support of a bi-lingual recruitment agency, during March-December to support with the high season within our Consumer Service Contact Centre - recruiting around 100+ positions each year
• Managing our UK Referral Scheme and staying on top of payments
• Managing all work experience requests
• Managing relationships with our limited external agencies
• HR Adhoc queries, filing, right to work checks

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr · Regional Office Europe

• Recruitment Support 75%
• Recruitment branding; internal & external recruitment adverts
• Engaging with global candidates
• Leading on recruitment fairs and engagement with community and talent pipelining
• Assist in maintaining user access to the Taleo applicant tracking system, data reporting
• Maintain records of all recruitment related expenditure incurred
• Assist in setting up the room in preparation for online psychometric testing of candidates
• Assist with meeting candidates for interview/assessments and in the organisation of interviews/assessments
• Assist with recruitment projects as required
• Assist with the use of social media in our recruitment ie Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Administrative support 25%
• Manage a variety of departmental administration
• Produce reports and management information within the required timescales
• Assist with weekly new hires reports where necessary
• Occasionally make travel arrangements