I am a recruitment professional with 9 years experience as a manager in agency recruitment and more recently have been working within the in-house arena. My core skills are: Interviewing and interview training, having written and carried out a number of training courses for FTSE 100 and 250 organisations. Account Management - Managing recruitment plans either in-house or externally for FTSE 250 and 100 organisations. Direct sourcing of vacancies using a variety of online resources Managing staff numbers of up to 15 Specialties: Recruitment; Executive Appointments; Networking; Business Development; Management; Operations; Online Recruitment Campaigns; Advertising; negotiations; Client Management

Head of Recruitment Partnering @ Close Brothers is a specialist financial services group which makes loans, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. RESPONSIBILITIES I lead the Close Brothers Recruitment Business Partner team across all of Bank and Group. Currently an expanding team of 7, the model has moved from a pure agency use model to a more direct sourcing based approach. Currently in my Team: Recruitment Business Partner - IT Associate Recruitment Business Partner - IT Recruitment Business Partner - North, Sales and Marketing Recruitment Business Partner - South, Contact Centre's and Administration Recruitment Business Partner - South, Finance and Change Management Associate Recruitment Business Partner - Central, Treasury, Risk and Governance Recruitment Business Partner - Germany Project Our focus is: • Creating recruitment plans to line managers to provide sourcing strategy around direct recruitment, agency management, • Direct sourcing for vacancies using methods such as LinkedIn headhunting and job boards • Interview support, training and guidance. • Job description support and guidance • Guidance on improving quality of hire, branding and sales message of vacancy and on-boarding From April 2015 to Present (9 months) London, United KingdomRecruitment Business Partner - Group | Central Functions | Treasury | Property | @ Close Brothers is a specialist financial services group which makes loans, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. RESPONSIBILITIES Within the Close Brothers umbrella I recruit for the following businesses – Group | Central Functions | Treasury | Property. The role covers all roles within our Central Functions (Risk, Legal, Audit, Compliance, IT, HR, Finance, Project and Change, Marketing, Procurement etc), Treasury (the full function, front and back office etc), Property Lending (development and bridging finance). Ownership of the banks PSA/PSL agreement, to be used by the rest of the banks Recruitment and HR BP's Provide support and assistance for recruitment activities as appropriate and as agreed Working closely with the businesses to understand their resourcing needs and identify creative ways to attract the right candidates Building good working relationships with key recruitment agencies whilst ensuring the bank has robust competitive arrangements in place Providing professional recruitment advice and guidance in line with company policy and procedures to clients Delivering direct recruitment as required ensuring the candidate experience is positive and business managers are given high quality candidates to consider Providing relevant and timely recruitment metrics and detailed reports as required – this includes internal recruitment MI and external market data/ trend analysis Monitoring adherence to key recruitment processes Support the business in understanding the talent and succession plans and developing actions to address any identified talent gaps Working with the other Recruitment Business Partners to deliver group wide recruitment projects/ initiatives Project managing a number of high volume recruitment campaigns with a high profile in the business Attending interviews at various stages with senior members of staff to provide a CBI platform around which to conduct the questioning From January 2014 to March 2015 (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomRecruitment Advisor @ From April 2013 to December 2013 (9 months) London, United KingdomRecruitment Manager - Qualified Finance @ From December 2012 to April 2013 (5 months) Manager @ Manager - Part/Non Qualified Commerce Contracts From March 2012 to November 2012 (9 months) London, United KingdomRecruitment Manager @ Account Management My role was heavily based on a number of key accounts and RPO's that I would act as a business partner to, working closely with the in house recruiters and visiting the few select clients that I had on a weekly basis. During my career I have been local account manager for Siemens (one of Hays biggest contracts), Fidessa, Cargill / Carval, Samsung and Alliance Boots. This involved being the sole point of contact for all finance recruitment in the company, delegation of vacancies and attending supplier meetings. Account Management / RPO Wins I was involved in securing the company onto a number of high profile national PSL's. These include - Cargill/Carval, Johnsons Controls, Fidessa and Samsung, Electronic Arts. During my time recruiting for part qualified vacancies, I won business in Lastminute.com and despite a previously frosty relationship with Hays I secured 13 interims in the company at one time, and registered around 45 jobs over a period of 9 months, filling all but 9 despite being in heavy competition. Office Management Responsible for a up to 9 staff members of staff consisting of a maximum of 2 administrators, 4 consultants, 1 Senior Consultant and 2 Business Managers (halves) During my time as manager, I have created a number of training programmes one of which is specifically designed to teach consultants how to train their candidates for interview (CPI etc) and write high level CV’s. Similarly I have carried out a training course on how to win business (PSL’s etc) from Blue Chip organisations. These training programs were rolled out to my staff as well as consultants across Southern Home Counties area. Successfully completed the Hays Managing Experts training with good 360 feedback. The feedback highlights both the strong respect I had from both my managers and my team. From January 2005 to March 2012 (7 years 3 months) Guildford, United Kingdom

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