Recruiting Leader on the market

[Potatoes]

I had to make a tough decision this week to quit my role as EU Head of MBA, PhD and MSc/a Recruiting for a multinational retailer this week. My family are no settling in Luxembourg so, for their sake we're moving back to the UK and I'm actively searching at the moment. We're going to be based in London for the short-term and I am seeking roles in/near London or Yorkshire as we have a base and a family/friend network in both locations.

I'm putting the feelers out with my personal network, recruitment agencies and applying for interesting roles directly but thought I'd post here on the off-chance a PHer was looking or knew someone who was looking for my skill set

Experience
At a high level my background is 10 years in in-house recruiting, 5 of those years as a manager, this is my last 3 roles and education:

• EU Head of MBA, PhD and MSc/A Recruiting: Multinational retailer

Built team from 1 to 7
Increased hires by 140% YoY
Designed and implemented specific end-to-end process for PhD and MBA/MSc/MA recruiting

• Head of Recruiting, Acids and Technology: Multinational oil/energy company

Built team of 3
Recruited for perm, temp, graduate, MBA and apprentice
Developed branding & PR campaign
Designed and implemented recruiting process for perm, temp and apprentice recruiting

• EU Program Manager: Multinational retailer

Developed Employee Referral program
Created military and graduate hiring program
Designed and implemented the EU recruiting process

Degree - Leeds Beckett University

Interests
This is what motivates me at work:

• Building consistent, automated recruiting process to improve candidate and manager experience
• Maximising the brand positives to tell a compelling story to the relevant candidate pools
• Creating talent and fast track programs
• Talking to candidates!
• Fostering or building a collaborative team culture to tackle the ambiguous, changeable nature of recruiting

My Ideal Company
I'd ideally love to move into a medium sized company who have a small recruiting function or are seeking to build a team to specialise in recruiting. But, I'm not picky... as long as I get to improve process and metrics, build a compelling employer brand/story, foster a great team culture and get to be hands on when necessary I'll be happy!

Please PM if you'd like to know more or post any witty comments below

[slow_poke]

Can't help you at all sorry, but I'm fascinated to know - wtf kind of multinational retailer has need of a military hiring program?

Aldi going to take on Lidl, or something?

Potatoes said:

EU Program Manager: Multinational retailer
Developed Employee Referral program
Created military and graduate hiring program

[anonymous-user]

Carphone were looking for a head of/recruitment manager a few weeks back. They have a large retail presence so might be of interest.

Downside they're based in Acton

[battered]

slow_poke said:

Can't help you at all sorry, but I'm fascinated to know - wtf kind of multinational retailer has need of a military hiring program?

Aldi going to take on Lidl, or something?

Potatoes said:

EU Program Manager: Multinational retailer
Developed Employee Referral program
Created military and graduate hiring program

Loads of employers like ex mil. Calm in a crisis, follow instruction, disciplined, prepared to be unpopular, etc. Loads of recruiters in Leeds btw.

[The jiffle king]

You could call Simon Butler at Mentmore. I know they are looking for people and it even says this on his linked in profile. It's not in house, but it might be interesting and Simon is a good guy

[4x4Tyke]

There is a large and growing IT sector centred on Leeds and strong trend to replace external recruitment agencies with in-house "Talent Acquisitions" teams in this sector.

[alfie2244]

Bit drastic just to get a vote in the referendum......good luck in your search though

[Potatoes]

alfie2244 said:

Bit drastic just to get a vote in the referendum......good luck in your search though

[Potatoes]

Thanks for the advice/guidance wsurfa, The jiffle king and 4x4Tyke; I'm going to explore those options.

Slow_poke as battered says the military is a great source for very flexible, composed and driven folks who come with a wide range of skills and experience which is extremely transferable to the company I was in. Some of the best hires I have made as a recruiter have come from the military

The search continues but I got a call today from the company that own Ginetta... that would be a cool company to work for

Thanks again for the advice folks, it's appreciated greatly

[schmunk]

Potatoes - you're rather outing yourself with your OP. A Google of a key phrase got me straight to your LinkedIn profile.

Regarding leads, Page Executive have been very good for me a couple of times now, albeit in a different industry so I can't recommend a particular contact.

Edited by schmunk on Wednesday 11th May 12:18

[Hughesie]

schmunk said:

Potatoes - you're rather outing yourself with your OP. A Google of a key phrase got me straight to your LinkedIn profile.

Me too

[Potatoes]

schmunk said:

Potatoes - you're rather outing yourself with your OP. A Google of a key phrase got me straight to your LinkedIn profile.

Regarding leads, Page Executive have been very good for me a couple of times now, albeit in a different industry so I can't recommend a particular contact.

Yeah, I realise that, did think about creating a different profile to do this... but I don't have too much to hide and don't mind people knowing who I am.

Page Executive are good, I have contact with 2 recruiters at Page HR who I regularly work with and rate highly. I might look at Page Executive and see if there are any opportunities being managed by them.

[anonymous-user]

From a recruitment agency perspective

I've had to recruit a fair number of HR/Recruitment types over the years, and whilst not a big mainstream agency www.tuckerstone.co.uk have been very useful when looking for more unusual profiles, or for less 'vanilla' roles.

Given you sound like you have some more specific interests as opposed to 'TA manager acme ltd' - they may be worth a call