The appointment
What the business needed.
The brief
An engineering and manufacturing business wanted to improve hiring across its markets and depend less on external agencies. It needed a global talent acquisition leader to make that change.
What made it hard
Engineering hiring is specialist work, and agencies had been filling the gap. The business needed a leader with engineering recruitment experience who could also build an in-house function and processes that worked in every market.
Who we found
A talent acquisition leader with engineering recruitment experience and experience of building in-house recruitment, comfortable using data to run it.
What changed
The person appointed built a recruitment function that could handle growth, introduced sourcing automation and used recruitment data to guide decisions. This led to faster hiring, improved quality of hire and significantly lower agency spend.
Role focus
What the role covered.
Talent Acquisition
Confidentiality
A note on confidentiality.
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