Simon Portway
Waterbeach,United Kingdom
Summary
A skilled recruitment professional with expertise in headhunting techniques, candidate sourcing, and recruitment marketing. Demonstrates a strong ability to implement talent acquisition strategies and manage talent effectively. Possesses industry-specific knowledge and excels in passive candidate outreach, contributing to successful hiring outcomes. Committed to advancing career goals by leveraging these skills to enhance organisational growth and talent management.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Recruitment Specialist
Argo Aviation International Ltd
Ely, United Kingdom
2024.10 - 2025.07
- Company Overview: Based in Cambridgeshire, UK, Argo Aviation International is part of a network of global offices supplying temporary and permanent recruitment solutions, EASA/FAA and CAA part 145 services to many of the major aviation airlines and maintenance companies across Europe.
- Working in the Aviation sector, providing a diverse range of customers, with permanent hiring solutions.
- Our teams are specialists within the aviation industry, and our staff have a mixture of hands-on and office-based experience, allowing us to support all areas of aircraft engineering support.
- My role is to provide permanent solutions to my customers, operating as a full 360 consultant.
- Based in Cambridgeshire, UK, Argo Aviation International is part of a network of global offices supplying temporary and permanent recruitment solutions, EASA/FAA and CAA part 145 services to many of the major aviation airlines and maintenance companies across Europe.
- Achievements: secured 3 new accounts within the sectors I operate in within 4 months, consistent billings every month.
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Aeropeople Ltd
2023.07 - 2024.10
- Hiring Composite Manufacturing Engineers, Propulsion Specialists, Requirements Capture, Aircraft Maintenance & Business professionals, Project Managers and many other white-collar Professionals, across Aerospace and major Defence programmes.
- Transformed the permanent recruitment desk, supplying to a multitude of customers within the hugely diverse Aerospace, Defence & Helicopter sectors.
- Contacting customers to secure/ update on permanent staffing needs, running candidate attraction campaigns, advertising acquired roles and screening suitable candidates for submission, providing a fully 360 recruitment service to both customers and candidates.
- Talent mapping candidates with niche skill sets.
- Undertaking recruitment tasks both in the UK and overseas and delivering on time and on budget.
- Key Account Manager for Global Aerospace Logistics (GAL) recruiting AW139 helicopter pilots for the échelon of in country VIP clients.
- Key Account Manager for ICOMAT, a specialist composite manufacturing business based in Bristol, providing Automation & Control, Senior Mechanical, and Composite manufacturing professionals.
- Achievements: set a company and personal record, £34,000 fee for a Helicopter Pilot placed in the UAE
Talent Acquisition specialist
Veranova (formerly Johnson Mathey)
2022.06 - 2023.07
- My role is to supply maintained support to a multitude of Veranova hiring managers, coordinating, and delivering the best talent available in today’s market, who create bright futures across the world.
- From the initial inception stage, I construct and implement tailor made recruitment programmes, for a wide variety of scientific roles, covering three UK based sites, hiring for as many as 20 roles simultaneously, I thrive on finding candidates for the really tough to fill vacancies.
- I partner with hiring managers, gather, and analyse information, manage the whole 360 recruitment process for both hiring manager and candidates alike, providing market intelligence and trend data in the process.
- Achievements: 10 permanent hires in my first six months, 6 so far for 2023
Senior Principal Consultant
FRG Technical Consulting
London
2021.06 - 2022.02
- Company Overview: FRG tech is the GCP (Google Cloud) recruiter of choice. We work with organizations worldwide to find and deliver the best GCP professionals on the planet. We have a proven record of accomplishment servicing the GCP permanent and contract recruitment market globally from our offices in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
- Delivering on expected Business Development KPI's, providing a full 360 recruitment services to clients and candidates, contributing to a monthly team target, utilising market data and trends to further expand the FRG brand in the marketplace.
- I recruit exclusively for GCP professionals across the UK (Perm)
- Roles I typically deliver:
- GCP Administrator
- GCP Analyst
- GCP Architect
- GCP Big Data Architect / Developer / Engineer
- GCP Consultant
- GCP Architect – Platform/Solutions/Data
- GCP DevOps
- GCP Engineer
- GCP Software Engineers.
- FRG tech is the GCP (Google Cloud) recruiter of choice. We work with organizations worldwide to find and deliver the best GCP professionals on the planet. We have a proven record of accomplishment servicing the GCP permanent and contract recruitment market globally from our offices in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
- Achievements: beginning from nothing in a brand-new sector, I have billed to date £42K in permanent placements
Lead Recruitment Consultant
CBS Butler
London
2019.12 - 2020.08
- Grew and developed the permanent Aviation desk.
- Promoted and developed the CBS Butler permanent division to an existing and newly acquired customer base.
- Contacting customers to secure/ update on permanent staffing needs, running candidate attraction campaigns, advertising acquired roles and screening suitable candidates for submission, providing a fully 360 recruitment service to both customers and candidates.
- Talent mapping.
- Reporting to Senior Management on results.
- Achievements: Starting from nothing, I have brought in 8 new customers, all of whom have CV’s and interviews pending, then sadly, the pandemic struck, and everything was put on hold.
- Monthly target of £14K.
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Aeropeople Ltd
Cambridge
2011.01 - 2019.11
- Hiring Propulsion Specialists, Helicopter Pilots, Aircraft Maintenance & Business professionals, Project Managers and many other white-collar Professionals, across Aerospace and major Defence programmes.
- Developed the permanent recruitment desk into a multitude of customers within the hugely diverse Aerospace, Defence & Fleet Vehicle sectors.
- Contacting customers to secure/ update on permanent staffing needs, running candidate attraction campaigns, advertising acquired roles and screening suitable candidates for submission, providing a fully 360 recruitment service to both customers and candidates.
- Talent mapping candidates with niche skill sets.
- Undertaking recruitment tasks both in the UK and overseas and delivering on time and on budget.
- Key Account Manager for the Fleet Vehicle Solutions division of the Marshall Group – responsible for all engineering recruitment nationwide, transport refrigeration, and hydraulic tail lift engineers, managing the needs and expectations of 15 depots.
- Created executive search & selection brochure now issued to all consultants, for use headhunting top end niche candidates, receiving commendation from our Marketing department & Senior Management for innovation and own initiative cost effective based creativity.
- Reporting to Senior Management on results.
- Achievements: Achieving monthly target of £14K
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Mind Professionals
Cambridge
2010.09 - 2010.12
- Set up an Allied Healthcare desk focussed within the mental health sector.
- Instrumental in winning new clients for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and also setting up resourcing infrastructure, notably for the MOD based on the European mainland.
- Client/candidate liaison for placements, canvassing for new clients and opportunities and resourcing candidates for potential opportunities.
- Achievements: Placement of candidates and increasing candidate database through new registrations as well as finding new placement opportunities.
Recruitment Consultant
HCL Healthcare
Loughton
2009.09 - 2010.08
- Placed locum Dietitians into the NHS & private hospital sectors.
- Generated new business leads, managed qualification & compliance of candidates.
- Set up and managed all phone and face to face interviews.
- Canvassed new clients for new opportunities.
- Attended and arranged client meetings.
- Crafted, managed, and actioned locum job adverts.
- Achievements: Maintained 15-20 dieticians as locum placements at gross margin of £200 - £250 per locum and hence total weekly gross margin of £3k - £5k. Initiated “hot candidate” marketing of locums to client base.
Recruitment Consultant
Henry Recruitment
Bishop’s Stortford
2007.09 - 2009.09
- Building Service Team, specialising/placed operatives for Mechanical Building Services.
- Promoted in August 2008 to run Civil/Rail desk and maintained a level of 44 operatives in field whilst continuing to develop new client and candidate relationships.
- Established EAA qualification and compliance of candidates.
- Managed the client accounts that included the likes of Birse Metro, Balfour Beatty, Costain, Bovis Lendlease etc.
- Achievements: Placement of up to 20 freelance operatives in the field within the first three months, surpassing permanent placement target of £16k by making billings of £48k within the first three months, established record 26% margin on several operatives (£675.00 charge / £500.00 pay) and also achieved a company record of £11,598.00 weekly gross margin set by an individual. Maintaining 44 freelance placements in civil/rail sector.
Recruitment Consultant
Hays Healthcare
Ilford, Essex
2005.02 - 2007.09
- Set up and the development of new Allied Healthcare business and instrumental in building Dietician, Radiographer, Speech & Language Therapy and Audiology business.
Recruitment Consultant
Quality Locum/Pulse Medical Services
Enfield, Herts
2003.09 - 2005.02
- Ran and developed the Dietetics department within Quality Locums.
Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Corinth Health Care
Borehamwood, Herts
2001.05 - 2003.08
- Responsible for placement of Speech & Language Therapists after starting as a trainee Recruitment Consultant.
Education
NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration -
2015.01 - 2016.10
NVQ Level 3 in Customer Service - undefined
2014.01 - 2015.10
REC – Certificate in Recruitment Practice - undefined
B-TEC Diploma - Popular music
Harlow College
1992.01 - 1994.01
GCSE - Double Science, Math’s, Technology, English, Art, Music, Technology, Geography, German
Saffron Walden County High School
1986.01 - 1992.01
Skills
- Headhunting techniques
- Candidate sourcing
- Recruitment marketing
- Talent acquisition strategies
- Talent Management
- Industry-Specific knowledge
- Passive candidate outreach
Languages
German
Elementary
Certification
REC Certificate on Recruitment Practice
Business Administration level 3
Customer service level
Affiliations
Music
Content creation
Timeline
Recruitment Specialist
Argo Aviation International Ltd
2024.10 - 2025.07
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Aeropeople Ltd
2023.07 - 2024.10
Talent Acquisition specialist
Veranova (formerly Johnson Mathey)
2022.06 - 2023.07
Senior Principal Consultant
FRG Technical Consulting
2021.06 - 2022.02
Lead Recruitment Consultant
CBS Butler
2019.12 - 2020.08
NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration -
2015.01 - 2016.10
NVQ Level 3 in Customer Service - undefined
2014.01 - 2015.10
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Aeropeople Ltd
2011.01 - 2019.11
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Mind Professionals
2010.09 - 2010.12
Recruitment Consultant
HCL Healthcare
2009.09 - 2010.08
Recruitment Consultant
Henry Recruitment
2007.09 - 2009.09
Recruitment Consultant
Hays Healthcare
2005.02 - 2007.09
Recruitment Consultant
Quality Locum/Pulse Medical Services
2003.09 - 2005.02
Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Corinth Health Care
2001.05 - 2003.08
B-TEC Diploma - Popular music
Harlow College
1992.01 - 1994.01
GCSE - Double Science, Math’s, Technology, English, Art, Music, Technology, Geography, German
Saffron Walden County High School
1986.01 - 1992.01