About Me
- Talent Acquisition leader with 20 + years in-house recruitment experience.
- Combination of Strategic and Operational resourcing expertise, in SME’s and major enterprises.
- Build scalable, high performing Talent Acquisition functions.
- Industry experience includes 6 years in FinTech/Financial Services, 7 years in Life Sciences, 6 years in Telco. Also operated in Travel and Transport, Academia, Construction.
Education
Thomas International 2010
Psychometric Profiling
PPA (DISC), GIA (Verbal, Numerical, Spatial Reasoning) and TEIQ (Emotional Intelligence
Work & Experience
Stewartson & Associates Limited 10/17/2024
Director - Talent Acquisition Specialist
• Talent Acquisition leader with 20 + years in-house recruitment experience. • Combination of Strategic and Operational resourcing expertise, in SME’s and major enterprises. • Build scalable, high performing Talent Acquisition functions. • Industry experience includes 6 years in FinTech/Financial Services, 7 years in Life Sciences, 6 years in Telco. Also operated in Travel and Transport, Academia, Construction, History of Employment and projects Stewartson & Associates Ltd – between 1996 to July 2023 and Nov 2024 to date - Talent Acquisition Specialist Interim and Consultancy Projects (through my own personal services Limited company) including: • Financial Services: Lloyds TSB, Prudential Group Head Office, Tesco Bank. • Hi-Tech & IT: Microsoft, Amdocs, Sherwood International, Centrix. • Life Sciences – Ipsen, Clario, hVIVO, Hamad Medical Center (Qatar) • Telecommunications: T-Mobile, Redstone Telecommunications, BT Openreach, Lucent. • Travel and Transport: Thomas Cook; Network Rail; Transport for London
Stewartson & Associates Limited 10/17/2024
Director, Founder and Outplacement Specialist
Helping organisations handle redundancies without killing the company reputation.
CRF Health (now trading as Signant Health) 03/01/2016 - 02/14/2019
Director, Global Talent Acquisition
CRF Health Ltd – Mar 2016 to Feb 2019 - Director of Global Talent Acquisition (Permanent) Now trading as Signant Health, this software house provides SaaS in clinical trials. With my team, I was instrumental in growing the business from 420 to over 750. I built and led a team of up to 10 in Talent Acquisition, based in 5 geographies –Set up a new office in Romania in January 2017. Following the merger with Bracket in 2018, we had 1600 staff in 7 countries, adding the Czech Republic, Japan and India to Finland, Romania, the US and the UK. Major Achievements: • Project Managed the 6 week implementation and roll-out of the ATS iCIMS in 2016. • Reviewed and revised the Employee Value Proposition developing and implementing a new strategy to raise the CRF Health profile internally and externally. Rolled out the strategy to incorporate honest and authentic messages in social media forums, the intranet site and via iCIMS. • Senior appointments recruited included: VP for Support Services, General Manager for Romania, Chief Operating Officer, Head of Global Supply, Directors for Verification and R&D Testing. • Reduced agency reliance for the UK from 80% agency sourced in FY16 to 25% in FY17, further reductions to just 9% in FY19 by directly sourcing candidates, resulting in direct savings of £800K in year 1, a further £500K in year 2 and £310K in year 3. • Recruited the first 98 employees for the new Romanian office in 12 months, this office grew to 220 by February 2019, with support from 2 additional TA team members based in the Romanian office. • Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity strategy saw a 50% gender split in Romanian R&D teams. • Attrition of 70 people leaving within first 12 months in Q1/Q2 of 2016 reduced to just 14 people throughout 2017 - improved interview and selection techniques and an internal mobility programme. • Creation, and optimisation of recruitment processes utilising Lean Six Sigma methodology. • Led the Diversity and Inclusivity initiatives resulting in a more acceptable gender mix in this technology led organisation.
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