David Baker

Used this time to finalise studies at university and completed some personal and household projects.

• Managed account for designated business areas, overseeing recruitment team fulfilling up to 1,000 hires annually.
• Established objectives for team of eight responsible for hiring associates, engineers, and management staff across UK sites.
• Devised and delivered recruitment projects to optimise end-to-end processes.
• Reported key recruitment metrics, ensuring high service levels were maintained.
• Cultivated strong relationships with stakeholders to enhance collaboration.
• Promoted business brand at external events to increase visibility and engagement.
• Clients were Jaguar Landrover, Babcock International and Qinetiq.

• Company Overview: Veolia Environmental Services UK is a Global Energy/Waste/Water business.
• Managing recruitment for several business streams including Engineering, Corporate, QHSE, Risk and I.T.
• Stakeholder management and relationship building on behalf of the resourcing function.
• Managing assessment best practice and also third party (agency) suppliers.
• Executing resourcing projects UK wide to support business activities.
• Producing and executing hiring plans to manage volume recruitment campaigns.
• Veolia Environmental Services UK is a Global Energy/Waste/Water business.

• Company Overview: Here I worked with Randstad Sourceright, the incumbent RPO provider.
• Responsible for managing the onboarding team within the resourcing function.
• Setting objectives and activities for a team of eight who produced employment contracts and pre-hire activities for up to 80 new starters into the business each week.
• Establishing relationships with the client and colleagues within the wider account team to enhance the service provision and improve processes.
• Hiring new team members and training/developing/coaching them.
• Focusing also on pre-employment screening and compliance checks for new hires.
• Here I worked with Randstad Sourceright, the incumbent RPO provider.

• Company Overview: Assist are a staffing and training business with a turnover of c£70m who operate a Managed Services Recruitment Model for their clients.
• Responsible for managing planning and sourcing activity across the Group businesses and with external clients.
• Consulting with Group heads of business and senior stakeholders to determine workforce planning requirements and setting a strategy.
• Establishing a permanent and specialist contractor/interim recruitment team to fulfil staffing needs.
• Hiring new team members and training/developing/coaching them.
• Leading tender activity.
• Client development and business planning.
• Assist are a staffing and training business with a turnover of c£70m who operate a Managed Services Recruitment Model for their clients.

• Company Overview: Formerly Goodrich, United Technologies acquired the business in August 2012 creating the largest takeover in aviation history.
• Managing recruitment activity for c150 hires.
• Change Management prior to, during and following business divestment.
• Developing & managing processes and relationships at this challenging time.
• Promoting the business’ brand via online initiatives and industry recruitment events.
• Determining, promoting and fulfilling apprentice, intern and graduate recruitment requirements.
• Facilitating apprentice, graduate and experienced hire recruitment assessment centres for Group-wide hiring.
• Managing a recruitment team of three.
• Formerly Goodrich, United Technologies acquired the business in August 2012 creating the largest takeover in aviation history.

• Company Overview: A leading Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) business.
• I completed projects with the following clients during this time: Rolls-Royce Plc, Global leading Power systems business.
• Managing UK recruitment for the business in the newly established Civil Nuclear sector.
• Participant and contributor to Resourcing and Change Management projects.
• Designing processes and guiding hiring managers in recruitment matters.
• Key contact for the business’ management from Team Lead to Executive Vice-President and Operational/Senior HR stakeholders.
• Attendance to and chairing of Resourcing governance meetings.
• Contribution to the development of an advertising campaign.
• Resourcing budget management.
• Selection and development of an agency supplier base.
• Planning and attending recruitment and networking events to promote the recruitment brand particularly with school, college and university students targeting STEM subjects.
• Developing and reporting on recruitment metrics.
• Management responsibility for two team members.
• A leading Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) business.

• Company Overview: Fortune 500 Aerospace systems manufacturer & supplier, 24,000 employees globally.
• Managing the attraction and selection of an annual intake of c100 experienced hires (Executive, Engineering, Purchasing, I.T & Finance).
• Design and specification of recruitment material, advertisements and processes.
• Designing & facilitating assessment centres.
• Selection of, and liaison with, recruitment agency suppliers.
• Advising hiring managers on recruitment issues and strategy.
• Team member in the implementation of a new candidate management software – ‘ADP Virtual Edge’.
• Managing a recruitment assistant.
• Team involvement with generalist HR projects.
• Liaison with the EEF to specify apprentice recruitment requirements and training matrices.
• Fortune 500 Aerospace systems manufacturer & supplier, 24,000 employees globally.

• Company Overview: Sunday Times Top 20 Big Companies to Work For, 12,000 employee Consulting and Business Services group.
• Co-ordinating attraction, selection and development of c250 Apprentice, Graduate and Masters Graduate hires.
• Design and specification of recruitment material, advertisements and processes.
• Also facilitating assessment centres.
• Contributing to development of the candidate management system ‘Igrasp’.
• Promoting the business at Recruitment fairs.
• Advising managers and directors on recruitment issues and strategy.
• Lead role in the liaison with Professional institutions to create a top class development framework for graduate entrants.
• Sunday Times Top 20 Big Companies to Work For, 12,000 employee Consulting and Business Services group.