Talent/HR Partner with 10 years’ experience in the recruitment sector, currently working for a South West based water company keen to continue my journey in the HR and Talent space. Skilled in full cycle recruiting, HR, business partnering, and high-volume resourcing through robust recruitment strategies, networking, and event organisation. Skilled in communication and stakeholder management up to a director level, who consistently strives for both success and quality in high pressured environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
South West Water
Exeter, Devon
04.2023 - Current
As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner I support all business’ in the Pennon Group, working alongside the other members of the Recruitment Team, HR Business Partners, and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, maximising direct sourcing and timely delivery
Researched market trends to offer competitive salaries and benefits.
Participated in job fairs to recruit potential candidates.
Developed employee referral programmes to assist in discovering new employees.
Counselled and mentored members of recruiting team to develop strong leadership skills.
Partnering with hiring managers to plan recruitment campaigns, tailoring it to their needs and requirements
Managing recruitment campaigns from start to finish for all permanent, fixed-term, and contract opportunities, including attraction, sourcing, assessing through to offer
Driving the diversity agenda through direct sourcing and advising business of recruitment best practice to mitigate any unconscious bias
Building and maintaining relationships with hiring managers across the business to understand their hiring requirements and provide support and advice both during and following interviews
Line management of coordinators
Delivering Assessment centres to ensure successful hire of volume recruitment
Delivering offers, and negotiating contract terms where necessary.
Talent Acquisition Lead
BT PLC
10.2022 - 04.2023
In my role as a Talent Acquisition Lead I was responsible for sourcing the best talent for Consumer Corporate in BT/EE
My role covers the recruitment of various different professions including marketing, project management, strategy managers and more up to director level
I partner with the HRBP and talent program teams to provide insight on the market and bring brilliant capability into the units they support
I work closely with colleagues in the units I support understanding strategic skills to ensure we are connecting our resourcing plans and skills agenda with what we are advertising the market
Manage vacancies end-to-end, I’m responsible for full end-to-end recruitment delivery
This includes but is not limited to: CV sifting and benchmarking, hiring manager and agency briefings, advertising, sourcing/headhunting, interview co-ordination
Providing a fantastic candidate experience to everyone, regardless of whether they’re successful in securing a role with us
Proactively sourcing and headhunting using a variety of channels, aligning with specialisms & understanding where we need a bigger presence
Writing adverts that bring out the best in the role and are tailored to your audience
Understand competitive marketplace, agencies, job boards, publications that can support hiring & targeting
Growing and maintaining a talent pool in a number of key hiring areas, tapping into internal talent pools
Building awareness in the market of BT/EE as an employer, working with our employer brand and recruitment marketing teams
Build and develop relationships with unit and stakeholders – develop detailed knowledge of area
Work to understand the future needs of the segments you support and plan resourcing strategies accordingly
Provide recruitment expertise and market knowledge to HR, HMs, Key stakeholders
Be a point of contact for external partners and suppliers on all aspects of the recruitment process.
Junior HR Business Partner
BT PLC
10.2021 - 10.2022
Worked as a HR Business Partner on a 12 month secondment, onsite across 3 call centres in the South West
Focused on strategic HR, providing resources, being accountable for service delivery and building relationships to enable the achievement of organisational objectives whilst developing capability and culture
Act as business partner to the management teams to deliver a proactive, commercial and value adding HR service to region
Responsible for improving key performance indicators such as labour turnover, performance management, absence levels, stability, headcount and succession
Drive the People strategy for the region in partnership with the Contact Centre Managers
Support and coach Team Leaders to engage and inspire their sales and service teams to deliver excellent service and standards
Embed a culture of driving talent and succession as a regional strategy to balance internal and external needs
Effective implementation of people change projects in conjunction with HR change team to ensure it lands right first time.
Served as point of contact to offer expertise on employee relations.
Boosted leader capability through effective coaching and advising.
Guided managers through recruitment process to filter talent and select high quality candidates.
Volume Recruitment Partner
BT PLC
08.2017 - 10.2021
As a Resource Partner for Consumer contact centres in the Southwest I worked across both BT and EE centres to manage the end-to-end recruitment of all front-line roles from Online Advisor to Operations Manager
Engaging with key stakeholders across the business unit to improve candidate and hiring manager experience, ensuring our assessment materials and processes are attracting the right quality of candidate and sharing market knowledge and insight
Recent successes have included improving attrition rates in EE service with the introduction of a project called My Team, designed to encourage hiring managers to take ownership of the recruitment process and create strong relationships with new hires before day one
Playing a key role in creating a virtual assessment process and designing materials that function effectively for video interviewing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Working with my team to develop our understanding of disability confidence and how we can adapt our ways of working to attract, assess and retain disabled talent.
Resourcing Business Partner
TMP Worldwide – Delivering into Virgin Media
09.2014 - 08.2017
As a Client Relationship Manager I was responsible for the delivery of multiple recruitment campaigns from single specialist vacancies to high volume contact centre roles, often in excess of 100 positions
Owning the campaign from initial attraction all the way through to offer and on-boarding, I also championed the partnership with key client stakeholders (up to Board / Director level)
Another important facet of my role was to provide valuable advice and recommendations, discuss candidate pipelines, the selection processes and forthcoming activity, and help to ensure accurate client forecasting and billing to both my own company and to our client
I was results orientated with a dual focus on service delivery for the client whilst maximising operational efficiency
In addition to my delivery responsibilities I also line managed a team of 6 Resourcing Executives whose focus is delivery of niche Sales roles.
Resourcing Executive
TMP Worldwide – Delivering into Virgin Media
02.2013 - 09.2014
Having initially been recruited as a Resourcing Coordinator and training to complete telephone interviews I was promoted to the role of a Resourcing Executive on the Virgin Media account within 2 months
This position allowed for greater exposure to both clients and candidates as well as a higher degree of autonomy and ownership of campaigns
Taking full role briefs from key stakeholders within Virgin Media, managing expectations and delivering on SLAs
Organisation of end to end high volume recruitment, liaising with Resource Planning to construct an effective delivery model
Ensuring excellent candidate experience is delivered to all candidates during the resourcing process through to offer
Engaging, managing, and negotiating with 3rd party suppliers
Producing weekly Management Information
Accurately monitoring and delivering candidate feedback
Ensuring that all live roles have accurate advertisement copy and are consistent across all job boards nationwide.
Recruitment Consultant
First Selection Ltd
10.2012 - 01.2013
This role covered the entire recruitment process, i.e., lead generation, negotiating and closure of new business, account management, sourcing and interviewing candidates and all other associated tasks.
Theatre Technician
Ambassador Theatre Group
08.2011 - 06.2012
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