Darren Carter
Executive Search & Headhunting Professional, Self Employed
A determined and enthusiastic Regional Manager/Director with strong Business Networking, Development and Operational skills.
Possessing exceptional commercial acumen, with superior communication skills, both written and verbal.
Key Skills
• Highly motivated entrepreneur, having been involved in a number of start up companies and acquisitions.
• Strategic visionary with the ability to add value. Having been involved in a number of innovations e.g. being the spearhead for the first agency to be recognised by a major Union, which developed extensive new large contracts for the business.
• Capable of working under pressure and delivering exceptional results. E.g. taking a start up from zero to £0.75m in year one. And taking a failing company from £450K to £1.2m in less than 6months and then onto £6m in 18 months
• A team builder and motivator to drive performance to highest possible standard.
• Ability to understand products and assimilate knowledge to perform set tasks. Having gained Gangmasters accreditation through thorough understanding of the law and guidelines and developing operational procedures accordingly, commended by Gangmasters for the most thorough documentation and understanding of the law they had seen from a recruitment agency.
• Intelligent communicator developing rapport with his target audience.
• Utilising technology to maximise advantage.
• Exceptional attention to detail
• An ability to adapt and work in any given market sector
• Assimilating knowledge and intelligence about a sector and its Key decision makers.
Specialties: recruitment, executive search, contracts, asia, europe, uk, usa, directors, strategic staffing, creative sourcing techniques, passive candidate development, IT, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Sales, Marketing, Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Medical communications, Market Access, Manufacturing, Quality, Process, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, informatics, SAS, Non Clinical Research, Health Economics, Clinical Trials, Physicians, Medical Directors, staffing, talent acquisition.
90 contacts2009 - 2011Specialist Executive Search & Headhunting professional assisting Senior Medical/Pharma professionals and specialist Pharmaceutical and Bio-technology companies across Europe/Asia and the Americas.
Working within the Pharmaceutical & Retail Pharmacy Sectors worldwide. Working in partnership with UKPharm and other partners. After spending my formative career working for others I decided it was now time to develop my own brand and use the skills, contacts and experiences gained from my career to date.
2006 - 2009At the end of my assignment I rejoined Serrano Resourcing and following a Strategic Review in March 2007 along with my fellow Directors we acquired the majority stake in a well established single site multi-disciplined Recruitment agency based in Nottingham, taking over an ailing business, by Sept. 07 (end of financial year) the company performance has increased from a forecast turnover of c£450K p.a. to £1.2m. This grew in the following year to £6m by expanding the operation into a multi-locational business with 2 new regional offices in addition to the original office in the Midlands. We also expanded the portfolio of products provided by the group with the addition of Back office payroll funding and expansion of the management consultancy activities altering the core business with the additional of Construction Trades & Labour and Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology & Medical Devices Permanent and Contract recruitment services.
Our financial advisers provided a poor assessment of the contractual risk of dealing with one of our key suppliers, their failure caused our factor to withhold monies due to the business (c£2m), resulting in the company been forced in receivership.
ASB Group was formed after myself and a business partner took over the running of the second oldest recruitment company (outside of London). ASB Group is the holding company for a group of companies;
Any Service Bureau Limited -
Traditional Industrial and Commercial recruitment agency business based in Nottingham
ASB Limited (Trading style of Any Service Bureau Limited) -
Construction Trades and Labour recruitment business
ASB Business Services Limited -
Back Office and Payroll management, funding and management consultancy company for the recruitment industry
Serrano Resourcing (UK) Limited -
Recruitment to Recruitment Business.
2004 - 2005UK Pharm is a specialist Recruitment Consultancy working closely with the UK & European Pharmaceutical industry recruiting Medical Reps and Sales professionals, Responsible for jointly building up a base of new clients and extensive work on the team build campaigns. As well as building up a new business working in various other sectors such as general sales, industrial and construction and other executive search activities. Due to the volume of work we were undertaking with one client I was seconded as a management consultant to Sunrise Solutions in the