NICKY FRIENSENER
Summary
Dynamic Talent Manager offering [Number]-year progressive career across diverse industries. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies up to [Number] employees. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work history
Leadership Talent Acquisition Manager
Facebook/Meta
09.2018 - Current
- Responsible for hiring Business Planning & Operations team, Global Business Marketing,
- Consumer Marketing, BPM, Partnership, PSO, Business Leads in EMEA
- Delivered impact hiring refresher training to GBM interviewers
- 3-month secondment to the Internal Recruitment team to work on the GBG restructure, managed 80 at risk candidates and extended 13 internal offers
- G&A Recruiter SWAT assignment from April to December 2020 hiring for the policy team
- Presented an engagement and IRP strategy to the VP of Policy and direct reports, gained agreement to secure a D&I sponsor, rollout IRP and mandatory training in Q1 2021
- R4M & Table Talks pilot, partnered with 2 members of the R4R/M G&A team, presented pilot to
- Vicky Bourne and launched R4M Table Talks for non-tech candidates
- Diversity
- Pride@ represented Facebook for LGBTQ History Month, panellist at the Princess Trust “Get Hired” event
- Just Like Us School Diversity Week 2020 pride@ partnership was the first virtual event for the charity, ran 22 masterclasses targeted at primary and secondary school children
- Over 1.8 million young people sign up for the masterclasses received over 8000 views
- And featured on 120 news items during School
- Diversity Week
- Inclusive Hiring Project Part of the Inclusive Hiring international project team responsible for creating content and training materials for the EMEA region
- Pride@ organised 2019 LGBTQ pride June celebrations in 3 London offices and the pride parade and breakfast for over 100 employees
- Pride@ organised the first internal LGBTQ Coming Out Day event across three London offices
- Led the first pride@ referral event with black@ and women@ and Differently abled collaboration for the
- Workplace Product Team referral drive
- Pride@ organised and led the Lesbian Who Tech Summit 2019 in London
- Pride@ organised Social for Good LGBTQ NGO's 2020 event training LGBTQ charities how to use our platforms and support the community during the pandemic
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Time Inc
04.2018 - 08.2018
- Senior member of the recruiting team responsible for editorial staff across number of magazine titles such as Wallpaper, Marie Claire, Living Etc, Decanter
- Partnered with Editorial Managing Directors restructuring teams to support the closure of underperforming magazine titles
- Cultivated and maintained pipeline of exceptionally talented candidates for future opportunities.
- Built robust talent pipeline with focus on direct sourcing.
- Elevated candidate experience throughout hiring journey to maximise acceptance ratings of job offers.
Senior Recruiter, EMEA
AOL/Oath
05.2016 - 04.2018
- In June 2017 AOL and Yahoo merged to become Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon
- Oath is a leader in digital and mobile media with a global house of 50+ brands
- Senior member of the recruiting team responsible for corporate functions, International finance, media sales, account management & business operations
- Worked with senior leaders in Sales, Finance and HR to manage succession planning and calibrate external hiring profiles
- Partnered with International CFO to restructure International accounting, FP&A and sales commission teams and hire specialist finance profiles
- Worked closely with the Head of Sales to restructure the UK sales teams and designed an attraction strategy to build and grow the team
- Worked closely with Account Management Director to restructure the UK Account Management teams and designed an attraction strategy to build and grow the team
- EMEA Diversity Lead and Pride Lead, partner with Global Diversity and Inclusion team to deliver
- Oath's EMEA D&I initiatives
Senior Resourcing Business Partner
Thomas Cook Group Corporate Office
12.2013 - 04.2016
- Responsible for external and internal hiring for the Corporate Head office and directly support the senior leadership teams
- Senior member of the recruiting team responsible for mid to senior roles across Group
- Communications, Group Legal, Finance, Audit & Risk, HR, Group and Transformation office
- Led hiring for Group Communications and Crisis Management teams working directly with the
- Director of Communications
- Designed a confidential search strategy and sourced mid and senior hires supporting the re-structure of the Group Comms team recruiting Internal Comms Manager
- Public Affairs, Corporate Comms- Finance and Consumer
- Led hiring for the Group Legal team sourcing mid to senior hires
- Led hiring for 150 EMEA technology hires
- Led an attraction strategy and project managed the design and delivery of a new Technology section for the Thomas Cook new careers website
- Led the Group Technology function EMEA strategic transformation resource objectives
- Developed a European hiring strategy to drive internal and external hiring for 100 senior level hires with the CTO and Tech Leadership team
- Worked closely with the HR Leaders to identify internal talent and succession planning.
Resource Manager
Barclays Bank
04.2013 - 12.2013
- Responsible for the supply of contractor resource to the Barclays Retail Banking Digital team across a portfolio of projects
- Supported project and resource mobilisation through management and delivery of contract resources including Project Managers, Business Analysts, UX & Visual Designers,
- Copywriters, Content Managers and Testers
- Led recruitment for Barclays Digital teams and end to end resourcing management, up to senior level
- Partnered with Programme Directors, Project Managers and Creative teams to deliver resource plans for critical digital projects
Resource Manager
Vodafone UK Limited
09.2012 - 02.2013
- Responsible for the supply of contract and permanent resource for the EVO Project, a global finance of €50 million to deliver an SAP transformation project
- Partnered with stakeholders to deliver and mobilize resource, creating resource plans and provided resource options to ensure project resource was delivered successfully
- Created and delivered a resource plan to mobilize SEPA financial project across 8 European countries within two weeks of budget sign off
Head
Hyphen @ IBM
02.2006 - 08.2012
- Of Professional Services for Experienced Hires on site at IBM
- Hyphen, an industry leading RPO specialist for permanent and contract solutions across industries
- Responsible for the operational delivery and day to day management of IBM UK and Ireland permanent recruitment functions
- Led an on-site team to provide senior level recruitment through direct sourcing model and vendor management
- Led on-site team of six to deliver direct and agency hiring and execution working within a commercial framework in line with SLA's and KPI's
- Ran quarterly and yearly business reviews with IBM senior leadership
- Created IBM's operational and strategic plans with IBM senior stakeholders
- Implemented a high touch direct delivery model across all IBM functions
- Reduced agency spend by £1.1m in one year through launching a direct sourcing model
Skills
- Talent management
- Candidate pipeline management
- Global recruitment
- Salary and benefits negotiations
- Compensation analysis
- Succession planning
- Recruitment
EXPERTISE
Leadership
Trusted Advisor
Timeline
Leadership Talent Acquisition Manager
Facebook/Meta
09.2018 - Current
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Time Inc
04.2018 - 08.2018
Senior Recruiter, EMEA
AOL/Oath
05.2016 - 04.2018
Senior Resourcing Business Partner
Thomas Cook Group Corporate Office
12.2013 - 04.2016
Resource Manager
Barclays Bank
04.2013 - 12.2013
Resource Manager
Vodafone UK Limited
09.2012 - 02.2013
Head
Hyphen @ IBM
02.2006 - 08.2012