MICHAEL EBOHON
London
Summary
Strategic Executive Search leader specialising in international recruitment. Directs talent acquisition initiatives for complex, multi-region hiring, aligning senior appointments with business goals. Develops search strategies, mentors recruiters, and manages client expectations to achieve impactful results across specialist and leadership roles.
Overview
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years of professional experience
Work History
EMEA Executive Search Leader
Metorec Limited (permanent)
03.2022 - Current
- Led corporate and global recruitment engagements, managing a team of 2 resourcers and 4 recruiters; consulted with internal stakeholders and hiring managers on Engineering, Executive, and Leisure senior managers recruitment, headhunt searches, talent acquisition, social networking, and technical recruitment. Managed relationships with corporate leaders, including CIOs, CDOs, and CXO level searches across EMEA, US, and APAC.
- Provided high-quality service to customers, enhancing potential for future relationships.
- Ensured compliance with regulations and internal requirements, maintaining organisational integrity.
Senior Recruitment Business Global UK & EU (contract)
WebMD Health Corporation
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Led global talent acquisition initiatives for United Kingdom and EMEA, successfully filling over 190 roles across various functions.
- Led a team of four recruiters to identify and attract hard-to-source passive candidates across the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the UK.
- Increased headcount across UK and EMEA, focusing on challenging locations to meet organisational growth targets.
- Partnered with recruitment teams across the APAC, US, EMEA, and UK regions.
- Developed and implemented recruitment processes and strategies to enhance candidate experience and streamline hiring.
- Conducted volume hiring and promoted inclusion and diversity across the region.
- Influenced strategies and negotiations at the corporate level.
- Experience of working in large corporate matrix environments.
- Managed complaints with calm, clear communication and problem-solving.
- Demonstrated consistent hard work and dedication to achieve results and improve operations.
- Trained and mentored employees to maximise team performance.
- Prepared a range of written communications, documents and reports.
- Engaged with customers to better understand needs and deliver excellent service.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Built and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
- Handled customer concerns and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Resolved customer queries and problems using effective communication and providing step-by-step solutions.
- Assumed additional responsibilities to support team objectives and enhance overall performance.
- Actively listened to customers to fully understand requests and address concerns.
- Met schedule using excellent planning and coordination skills.
- Maximised customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering excellent customer service.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Promoted a safe working environment by implementing regulatory standards, policies and guidelines.
- Ensured cleanliness and safety in the workplace to reduce the risk of accidents.
- Achieved service time and quality targets.
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes.
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes.
Corporate EMEA Lead Talent Recruitment UK & EMEA (contract)
Lumentum
08.2020 - 11.2020
- Global Talent Acquisition for EMEA regions Italy, UK, Slovenia, Switzerland; Leveraging 280 plus career opportunities within Sales, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Optical Engineering, Research & Development, Process Engineering, Production Technologists, Experienced Hire Recruiting, Diversity and Inclusion protocols, On-boarding. ECH Early Career hiring; University Hiring, KPI reporting and deadlines; Utilising Workday HCM as an Applicant Tracking System; Global round-table reporting via RingCentral Zoom calls; Acting as Trusted Advisor to budget-holding line managers, liaising up to VP/CXO; Travelled to Slovenia to implement recruitment strategies by meeting with local stakeholders and conducting candidate interviews. Implemented and trained stakeholders on new Workday ATS where influencing and mentoring skills were needed;
- Facilitated implementation of new recruiting processes across multiple regions, enhancing efficiency in talent acquisition.
- Coordinated with team members to achieve recruitment targets, contributing to overall team success.
- Achieved service time and quality targets.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Trained and mentored employees to enhance skills and improve team performance.
- Met schedule using excellent planning and coordination skills.
- Prepared range of written communications, documents and reports.
- Enhanced working relationships by participating in team-building activities.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Engaged with customers to better understand needs and deliver excellent service.
- Maximised customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering excellent customer service.
- Built and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
- Assumed extra responsibilities to support overall team objectives.
- Actively listened to customers to fully understand requests and address concerns.
- Resolved customer queries and problems using effective communication and providing step-by-step solutions.
- Promoted safe working environment by implementing regulatory standards, policies and guidelines.
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes.
- Handled customer concerns and escalated major issues to supervisor.
EMEA Executive Search Executive
Metorec Limited (permanent)
04.2012 - 08.2020
- Leading corporate recruitment engagements and searches; Consulting with internal stakeholders and hiring manager. Missions include Sales Recruitment, Executive Recruitment, Direct Approaching, Headhunt Searches, Talent Acquisition, Social Networking, technical recruitment. Managing relationships with corporate leaders including CIOs, CDOs and CXOs;
- Formed and sustained strategic relationships with clients.
- Monitored daily operations to ensure alignment with strategic goals. to keep processes aligned with targets and matching forecasts.
- Developed successful strategies and policies, meeting organisational needs and implementing improvements.
- Selected and mentored senior staff, creating successful leadership team.
- Cultivated strong industry relationships to promote services and improve business operations.
- Established company targets based on previous performance and predicted forecasts.
- Evaluated departmental performance and developed improvements to key operations.
- Built a business culture focused on performance and collaboration. focused on performance optimisation and goal attainment.
- Reported successes, failures and new plans to governing body to guide decision-making.
- Analysed performance metrics to assess organisational effectiveness. to evaluate and improve organisational effectiveness, driving a culture of excellence.
- Tracked organizational performance against objectives and revamped strategies to better meet targets.
- Developed high-performing teams to consistently exceed goals, drive revenue and expand markets.
- Pioneered customer experience strategies, elevating satisfaction levels and bolstering loyalty.
- Streamlined supply chain processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs., enhancing efficiency and ensuring timely delivery of products and services.
- Drove customer satisfaction improvements, evidenced by a 95% positive feedback rating from client surveys.
- Reviewed operational policies to identify areas for improvement., aligning procedures with best practices and industry standards.
- Managed corporate communications, strengthening brand image and stakeholder relations through effective messaging.
- Facilitated training programmes for senior management, enhancing leadership skills and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Conducted market analysis to identify emerging trends and opportunities. to identify emerging trends, informing data-driven decision-making processes.
- Analysed and determined courses of action to align operations and revenue performance with organisational goals.
- Oversaw day-to-day functioning of placements operation.
Lead Resourcing Recruiter UK & EU
Metorec Limited (London)
05.2007 - 03.2012
- Built talent acquisition teams for large corporate clients; developed personal online and social media EMEA contacts to approximately 22,000 using Viadeo, Twitter, Xing, Outlook, and LinkedIn;
- Planned and executed EMEA search for ACI Worldwide, identifying and sourcing Professional Services, Solutions Consulting, and Sales professionals across the region;
- Sourced a Senior Strategic Account Executive for Salesforce in 2011 in Paris who was later promoted to Regional Vice President then promoted again to Area Vice President and Country Sales Leader in Tel Aviv Israel;
- Methodology: proactive, strategic, and target-driven. Over-achieving against personal hiring targets across the region;
- Highlighted key professional achievements that demonstrate recruitment success and impact on business objectives;
- Attending clients' sites to perform candidate-screening meetings, negotiating Service Level Agreements;
- Operating across Europe in a role that requires fluency in a different language, knowledge of regional and vertical hiring trends; 4 Years' In-House full lifecycle recruitment HR experience;
- Verticals include Enterprise Software vendors, I.T Payments vendors, I.T Security vendors and Telecommunications Managed Service Vendors;
Recruitment Consultant
Metropolitano Limited (London)
11.2000 - 05.2007
- Sourced Sales, Presales, Inside/SDRs for stakeholders across United Kingdom and western EU states; Developed recruitment processes tailored to employment customers; Negotiated and implemented sourcing plans while providing advisory support. Recruited in-house recruiters for McAfee and Autodesk;
- Developed and maintained strong relationships with clients, understanding their unique requirements and providing tailored recruitment solutions.
- Coordinated with HR teams to streamline recruitment processes, improving efficiency and candidate experience.
- Handled sensitive information with discretion, building trust with clients and candidates alike.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Studies
Christ's Colege
London, ENGSkills
- Diversity advocacy; Virtual Interviewing; Advanced Communications; Attention to detail; Open-minded; Team-oriented; Data-driven recruitment;
- Google Suite, Google Docs, RingCentral, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Advanced Excel User, Word, Outlook 365), Ashby, Advanced Workday HCM User, LinkedIn Recruiter, Xing, Viadeocom, Taleo/Oracle, SAP SuccessFactors, Workable, Greenhouse; Lever, Kanban Board (Time Management);
- Talent acquisition
- Executive search
- Candidate sourcing
- Stakeholder management
- Workforce planning
- Workday ATS
- Jobvite ATS
- EMEA recruitment
- Boolean search
- Executive communication
- KPI reporting
- Team building
- Decision making
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent / bilingual in English and Italian (to business level);
Certification
- [Area of certification] Unconscious Bias 1 - certified
RECOMMENDATIONS
Circa 65 visible online recommendations (LinkedIn.com); DBS cleared 2022;
INTERESTS
Sport, Media, Fitness.
PERSONAL
British Male, Father.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Cont'd)
- Achievements include:
- Building and staying in regular touch with passive talent pipelines in the form of relationships with candidates making sourcing more personable when the right role for them becomes available, heavy focus on Sales professionals, I.T software vendors;
- Project Lead (Hire Volume): Managing the benchmarking of strategic requirements Account Manager, New Business Sales Executives and Presales Managers;
- Leading onsite on behalf of TA function as Interim head; vertical market knowledge:
- Engineering: Lumentum, Autodesk, Network Rail 14 years
- Payments / Banking: ACI Worldwide, NCR; 5 years, Goldman Sachs; 12 years
- Hospitality: Amadeus IT Group, Fujitsu Aviation I.T, Travelport, Sabre Airline; 5 years
- Healthcare / Life Sciences: WebMD, IDX Healthcare / GE Healthcare, 3.5 years.
- Media: Digital, online; 4 years / Sales Recruitment 12 years.
- I.T Security: McAfee, FireEye, Proofpoint, Symantec Corporation; Fortinet 15 years.
- Commodities / Oil & Gas: Glencore, Shell, Total, Aramco; 6 years.
- Research / Engineering/ Design: Lumentum, Autodesk Consulting, Adobe; 10 years.
- Implementing Diversity and Inclusion protocols. ATS (applicant tracking systems) where needed to offer alternative to traditional model allowing the internal TA team to stay in closer contact with external talent; On-boarding, KPI reporting; Early career hiring;
- Meet and relationship build with hiring managers to gain a detailed understanding of the roles and improve stakeholder satisfaction levels allowing the process to become streamlined and more efficient; University liaison and ECH across UK and EMEA;
- End to end full lifecycle, direct sourcing methodologies, KPI reporting metrics;
Timeline
EMEA Executive Search Leader
Metorec Limited (permanent)
03.2022 - Current
Senior Recruitment Business Global UK & EU (contract)
WebMD Health Corporation
02.2021 - 03.2022
Corporate EMEA Lead Talent Recruitment UK & EMEA (contract)
Lumentum
08.2020 - 11.2020
EMEA Executive Search Executive
Metorec Limited (permanent)
04.2012 - 08.2020
Lead Resourcing Recruiter UK & EU
Metorec Limited (London)
05.2007 - 03.2012
Recruitment Consultant
Metropolitano Limited (London)
11.2000 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Studies
Christ's Colege