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The Drum's Recruitment Business Awards Nominations Revealed ... - The Drum

St John's

Marketing leader  -  Brand & social strategy   -   Passionate about I&D   -   Accenture

London, England, United Kingdom

In this role I am responsible for articulating Accenture’s brand social strategy, as well as developing brand strategies for other campaigns and programs. Using data, analytics and research in order to develop intelligence and insights, my goal is to identify opportunities and create strategies that will generate insight-based outcomes and brand value.

Accenture

Associate Director, Brand Strategy & Social Strategy

I led the development of global social strategy across marketing, to support our business priorities and objectives.

Global Head of Social Strategy

Global recruitment marketing lead for Accenture Strategy and Accenture Consulting. I worked with HR, recruiting, business leadership and M&C colleagues to develop and deliver recruitment marketing and attraction strategy across all audience segments/channels, helping the business achieve ambitious hiring goals.  Marketing and employer branding lead for Accenture’s recruiting transformation program. I led the attraction and sourcing work stream.

Associate Director - Recruitment Marketing

I was responsible for the client development and business development team, including client acquisition and new business, and achieving business goals and sales growth. This included key account management of the agency’s enterprise level accounts and working with C-suite clients to develop and implement their employer and corporate brand, talent attraction, digital recruitment and recruitment marketing strategies.

4MAT.com

Director of Client Development

I led the talent communications business at SAS (now MSL Group). This included operational and strategic responsibility for BP's global candidate attraction and employer branding business. Working with key stakeholders across APAC, EMEA, and Americas, we developed and implemented BP's attraction activity, helping to recruit over 10,000 Upstream professionals globally. In addition, I was strategic consultant to EY, supporting the development of both EY's employer brand and talent attraction strategies, to support a new direct sourcing model.

MSLGROUP

Director of Talent Communications

I led client acquisition and development across Penna’s recruitment business, which provided solutions across employer branding, recruitment marketing, graduate recruitment, employee engagement, managed recruitment and assessment, executive search, and executive interim business. In addition, from July 2009 I was responsible for Penna’s involvement with Talent Universal - a global network of employer branding, recruitment marketing and HR communications agencies across Africa, America, AsiaPacific and Europe, that exists to help employers attract, engage and retain talent around the world by working together cooperatively - sharing ideas, knowledge, best practices, technologies, and resources.

Penna

Client Development Director

Following Penna’s acquisition of Barkers Group Ltd’s business assets, I was appointed to this newly created leadership role within Penna’s Communications business. Subsequently in September 2010 I was also given responsibility for Sales and Marketing within Penna’s Resourcing business.

Sales & Marketing Director

I had full P&L responsibility for the regional networks of the UK’s largest recruitment marketing and employer communications business.  Reporting to the CEO, I was responsible for all aspects of the business including sales, client development/management, and delivery. Key achievements included the implementation of a phased restructure and transition of the business and successful growth of our high margin business, which resulted in a 43%+ increase in net profit.

Barkers Group Ltd

Managing Director - Regions/Regional Operations Director

Leadership and management of the West Midlands office for this recruitment marketing and employer branding agency. Responsibilities included the effective management of the P&L; people management; client development and retention; resource planning; and all aspects of sales and new business activity across the region.  Key achievements: significant new business wins, that doubled revenue and net profit in three years.

Regional Director

P&L responsibility and operational management of Bernard Hodes Group's Midlands and South West regions. Member of the national management team.

Bernard Hodes Group

Responsible for client acquisition and new business development. Managed all aspects across my portfolio including prospecting, lead generation, needs analysis, solution scoping/design (working with subject matter experts), leading the pitch/bid process, and negotiation.  Exceeded targets. Won deals with a range of industrial and commercial and public services clients.

TMP Worldwide

Business Development Manager

Managed a small client team comprising account management and administrative staff, working on a portfolio of 40 - 50 clients.  Accountable for achieving revenue and margin targets, client growth, client satisfaction and retention, and new business. Acted as senior escalation point across portfolio. Personally managed key clients.

Account Director/Group Account Director

Managed portfolio of 20 - 30 accounts across the public and private sectors. Key accounts included Fosters retail, Miss Selfridge, Trebor Bassett, Fining, Staffordshire University. Accountable for achieving revenue and margin targets, client growth, client satisfaction and retention.

Barkers

Account Manager

Responsible for servicing day-to-day requests for portfolio of 40-50 accounts,across all sectors. Promoted to Account Management and Business Development role.

Andrew Soane