Sam Woolley
Recruitment Manager, Hays Specialist Recruitment
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I help employers secure the best talent for their business, by developing sustainable, multi-channel resourcing strategies.
I believe in maximising 'cultural fit' as a key driver to recruiting the best talent, adopting a creative & practical approach to key resourcing challenges.
Specialties:- Managed recruitment team in FS sector, recruiting 8,000 hires pa upto £100k salary - attraction, branding, candidate management, resource planning, talent pool development for all branch, contact centre field-based and head office specialist roles. - Finding 'hard-to-reach' candidates in challenging industry sectors. - Advertising Account Manager working with clients to develop advertising, recruitment marcomms and online collateral, managing integrated candidate attraction campaigns.
1 contactRPO Solutions and Bid Management
December 2007 – Present
Currently manage large-scale RPO bids and tenders across Industry, Commerce and Financial Services sectors. I work with clients to design bespoke 'managed-service' recruitment strategies for their business across Master Vendor, Neutral Vendor, RPO and managed-PSL platforms.
Candidate Attraction Team Manager at Santander Resourcing
October 2006 – December 2007
Managed 15-strong candidate attraction team responsible for recruiting c.8,000 permanent hires pa throughout the UK - volume and specialist roles upto £100k across branch, contact centre and head office.
Internal Team Management
•Coaching
•Mentoring
•Training
•Conducting appraisals
•Headcount and capacity planning
•Interviewing and internal recruitment
•Managing meetings
Candidate Attraction
•Resource planning
•Managing direct recruitment candidate attraction strategies
•Assessment centre management
•Candidate direct sourcing and CV search
•Advertising and employer branding
•Vacancy and applicant pipeline management
•Talent pool development
•Pre-screening, interview and selection
2005 - 2006Account Manager on key regional, national and pan-European advertising accounts in the engineering, financial services and public sector.
Responsible for developing relationships with clients and maximising direct recruitment opportunities for the client. Managed all aspects of the recruitment adcomms business within the accounts including:
•Offline advertising
•Digital marketing
•Response Management
•Web development
•Media planning
•Media buying
•International media buying
•Design and print
•Search engine marketing
•Ambient media campaigns
Responsible for increased levels of direct hires within client database and migrating clients' recruitment activity online.
Clients included - ALSTOM, Arup, West Brom Building Society, Legal & General, various NHS clients, Accident Exchange.
2003 - 2005Responsible for managing and developing the Client Services Department, managing a team of people, wide client base and turnover exceeding £2.5m.
Played a key role in the transformation of the agency from specialist recruitment to full service advertising agency, specialising in the strategic media planning and campaign management.
Personally managed c. £800k advertising activity and media spend, including £600k University course marketing student recruitment media buying account. This included TV, radio, press, online, international, outdoor and ambient media buying and sports sponsorship, leading to application results significantly above the national benchmark.
Clients included - De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Triumph, Bravissimo, Danone, National Car Rental, Loughborough College, Brooksby Melton College, ENTO and more.