BASIT ZAMAN

Orange Cyberdefense is the expert cybersecurity business unit of the Orange Group, providing managed security, managed threat detection & response services to organizations around the globe as Europe's go-to security provider, we strive to protect freedom and build a safer digital society.

Responsibilities:

• Hands on technical sourcing/recruiting across all European offices for OCD
• Managing a Resourcing Business Partner and a Resourcing Coordinator in the execution of key KPI's and delivery
• Key contact in the strategy of hiring for the business across multiple countries
• Key point of contact for any agency usage/PSL
• Key point of contact for stakeholders within OCD - engaging with country leaders to proactively bring the best talent into the business

Achievements:

• 81 hires in 2025 with a total cost saving profit of €891,425
• Reduced agency usage to 3 times in a 12 month period - a reduction of 85% from the previous year
• Improved time to hire to average 40 days - prev 50+
• Increased sourced candidates into the database by on average 25 per month
• Improved direct applications month on month (peaking at 487)
• Increased offer-acceptance rate from 50% to 80%
• Main skills recruited for: Security Engineers, GRC, Incident and Vulnerability Management, CISO, Product Manager, Sales account Manager, Security Consultant

• Recruiting for technical positions across OCD's Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, UK and Switzerland offices
• Working alongside the Global Head of Operations, taking ownership of the global operations recruitment and liaising with other recruiters to establish the appropriate location of roles and skills
• Working with other HR and recruitment teams in European countries to recruit
• Maintaining the relevant applicant tracking platforms, utilizing it for day-to-day recruitment as well as monitoring the recruitment pipeline and providing data analytics as required
• Sourcing and headhunting candidates, conducting screenings and interviews and liaising with local HR to initiate candidate onboarding
• Support employer branding activity including maintaining the company Careers Page and 'Life' page on LinkedIn across the group and manage entirely for the UK
• Monitor and analyse key recruitment and onboarding data across the group, providing appropriate analysis alongside the wider recruitment to influence focus on critical areas for improvement
• Providing analytics and reporting to display key strengths within group hiring strategy and process

• Responsible for running an efficient and sustainable service delivery operations platform for the hiring of contingent workforce into BT, that is driven to provide flawless execution and low-cost operating efficiency
• Managing a service delivery team of 5 in the execution of processes, procedures, and policies which are aligned with the operating level and service level agreements
• Key contact in the payroll tender process
• Developing and owning the new supplier process
• Key contact in Operational Project work
• Conducting Supplier reviews
• Delivering team 1:2:1's and team meetings
• Assisting procurement activities including supplier agreements
• Working towards programme goals, SLA's, financial performance, operational health and growth
• Recommending process enhancements and efficiencies to continuously improve service delivery while reducing cost
• Key point of contact for the continuous engagement with senior BT stakeholders within procurement, HR, hiring community and our PSL suppliers

• Responsible for running an efficient and sustainable service delivery operations platform for the hiring of contingent workforce into BT, that is driven to provide flawless execution and low-cost operating efficiency
• Working as part of a service delivery team in the execution of processes, procedures, and policies which are aligned with the operating level and service level agreements
• Working towards programme goals, SLA's, financial performance, operational health and growth
• Recommending process enhancements and efficiencies to continuously improve service delivery while reducing cost
• Key point of contact for the continuous engagement with senior BT stakeholders within procurement, HR, hiring community and our PSL suppliers
• Running internal training sessions for key stakeholders within Enterprise on our VMS (SAP Fieldglass)
• Working with suppliers to resolve daily issues
• Owning the end to end recruitment process for all temp hires into BT Enterprise

• High volume end to end recruitment, both Internal and External across a variety of sectors including Client, Mobile and Managed Service
• Owning the entire hiring process, managing on average 150 vacancies at a time, taking full control of the recruitment process
• Completing 283 offers across Internal and External, with a saving of £300k+ (Reference of breakdown on request)
• Championing the candidate experience, ensuring candidates are being satisfied at every touch point throughout the process
• Helping re-write job descriptions, writing job adverts, sourcing candidates, filtering Priority candidates, working collaboratively with Hiring managers and key stakeholders on decision making as well as strategies for proactive recruitment campaigns
• Working with recruitment agencies on the PSL, in order to get the best candidates in the market on board at BT
• Headhunting the best talent through a variety of channels for pipelining and against active vacancies

• Working as a Talent Acquisition Consultant with 90% of the top 20 Life Science companies in the world
• Sourcing passive candidates within Informatics, Biostatistics, Regulatory Affairs and Health Economics
• Engaging passive candidates to active, through a variety of channels and sourcing strategies including LinkedIn Recruiter, Forums, Events
• Full Recruitment cycle from Briefing Call to Placement
• Arranging and booking in interviews for candidates
• Placing job adverts and monitoring ad responses
• Developing new business through a variety of channels
• Managing a high volume desk whilst being able to run training sessions for other members of the team
• Attending client meetings
• Working within their sourcing team, I was part of the sourcing team that focused on sourcing and working on tough to fill roles
• I focused predominantly on the pharmaceutical/medical devices sector
• Main skills recruited in: Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics Scientist, Computational Biologist, Biostatistician, SAS Programmers, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Genomics, Phase I-IV, Manufacturing, Data Management, Health Economist, Health Economic Manager
• As well as this, I have worked across several sectors on a project by project basis, working high volume projects for clients across the EMEA region
• Other skills recruited in: Finance & Accountancy, HR, Engineering, Sales

• Cold calling companies to generate more business for the recruitment agency
• Placing adverts on relevant job boards and resourcing databases for suitable candidates
• Conducting phone interviews with prospective candidates in order to judge their suitability for my clients
• Attending meetings with clients
• Gathering requirements from line managers, and advising them on current market updates i.e
• Rates/salaries/events
• Reference and background checks for candidates
• Describing the work duties, salary and benefits of a particular vacancy to candidates
• Arranging interviews for candidates for suitable positions
• Involved in negotiating salary/rates between client and candidates
• Assisting applicants with their interview techniques
• Calling up a candidate and informing them if they have been successful or unsuccessful in their application
• Premier Group is a global privately owned recruitment agency, offering high quality recruitment services to the whole of the UK, mainland Europe and the US
• I sat within the technology recruitment team in Birmingham
• Recruited for all IT Development roles, actively placing .Net Developers, Front End Developers, PHP developers as well as placing more Digital candidates
• Main skills recruited in: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, MVC, AJAX, Java, Python, PHP inc frameworks such as Laravel, Code-igniter, Zend, Angular.js, Node.js, iOS, Android and Xamarin, T-SQL, SQL, MySQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Oracle 10/11g, Oracle Forms, UI/UX Design, PPC, SEO