katherine Mellor

Experienced recruitment manager 

Recruitment Manager- Attraction June 2019- April 2023

Frontline

• Leading a recruitment team of 6, managing budget of £250K+ with responsibility to recruit 450 graduates and careers changers into England wide local authority social work, alongside 45 Brand Managers, 3 graduate interns and 12 student interns. Set direction and strategy for all high-volume recruitment sourcing activity, from events, to marketing and conversion campaigns to generate approx. 10000 registrations per year. 
• Responsible for all recruitment marketing and employer branding from initial concepts to delivery across all platforms with a key focus on reducing cost and increasing effectiveness. Key achievement include: 2021 brochure being shortlisted in Highfliers Research top 10 as voted by students and increasing brand perception, with Times top 100 employer rankings moving from 42 to 37 in 2020 and 37 to 32 in 2021.
• Successfully built and nurtured future talent pipelines for roles.
• Led tender processes to appoint a number of third party suppliers, with responsibility of managing and evaluating ongoing relationships to ensure best value for money. 
• Lead for the Recruitment Diversity Working Group. Implemented D&I initiatives across recruitment which improved candidate experience and successfully increased underrepresented groups hired in 2020 and 2021.
• Developed D&I workshops and best practice materials to aid the learning, understanding and implementation of diversity and inclusion strategy. 
• Working with recruitment management group to implement a new ATS system (Amberjack) and being responsible for leading build and testing of the system for internships, brand manager and insight days.

UK&I Recruitment Manager- Emerging Talent June 2018-June 2019

Danone

• Business partnering with teams across Danone UK&I to understand and explore placement and graduate recruitment requirements and rotations across finance, HR, IT Sales, Marketing and Nutrition 
• Responsible for attraction, selection, induction and programme management for all graduates (10-15 per intake) and placements (15-20 per intake). Development of all selection, onboarding and training materials and guidance together with hiring managers.
• HRBP for all placement students; responsible for their career management, learning & development, employee experience and wellbeing.
• Managed and rolled out all training and development for both programmes. Successfully introduced new training for placements after collecting feedback from them and their managers.
• Supervising performance review and calibration process for all graduate and placements
• Development of all recruitment marketing and social media in line with global EVP. 
• Management and reporting on the Emerging Talent budget to deliver efficiency and cost savings in line with global business guidelines.

Recruitment Officer June 2016 – June 2018

Frontline

Direct sourcing/ building talent pipelines to generate applications

• Managed direct multi-channel recruitment sourcing strategy to recruit students, graduates and career changers for all programmes across London and the South West of England. 
• Planning and delivery of onboarding events to support low attrition
• Collection, monitoring and reviewing of all right to work and compliance documents for all starters within the region. 
• Building new talent pipelines and engaging them through creation and delivery of a series of in person and digital skills sessions 
• Developed competency and strength based selection materials 
• Screening, interviewing and assessing applicants across all programmes.

Relationship Manager/ Digital Recruitment Specialist October 2015 - June 2016

Flowcaritas

Direct sourcing/building talent pipelines 

• Working as a talent partner to a range of charity, education and non-profit clients, recruiting entry to director level talent across temporary, fixed term and permanent positions
• Direct sourcing and headhunting candidates for hard to fill roles across HR, Digital, Communications, Marketing, Fundraising and Database.
• Building talent pipelines through LinkedIn, database management and job boards 

Senior Recruitment Consultant & Recruitment Consultant March 2014 - October 2015

Aspire Global Network

• Sourcing candidates LinkedIn, database, job boards, referrals and headhunting from competitor organisations.
• Meeting challenging SLA agreements with clients and reviewing my own performance against KPI and performance metrics.
• Mentoring junior team members; helping them find effective solutions for recruitment problems they face, from client and candidate handling, time-management, sourcing, offer handling, and talent attraction. 

Recruitment Compliance-Co-ordinator July 2013 - February 2014

Maxxima LTD

• Completed HR administration activities to adhere to NHS and framework guidelines for locums working across the UK- checking eligibility to work, references, performance reviews and all information held by Maxxima is correct pre-start date and maintained once in position. 

Event Floor Manager & Waitress November 2008- July 2013

The Esprit Group

• Responsibility working within a management team to successfully manage catering events and lead event staff, managing up to 100 staff during any given event.

Philosophy BA  Kings College London