Rebecca Williamson

I am an experienced recruiter with 10years of recruiting expertise. I have recruited globally and I am confident working with overseas markets/ legislation. 
I am looking for a remote role, ideally something with a chance for me to be involved in hands on recruiting along with improving strategies and process.

available immediately

Talent Partner

Lumanity- previously Cello Health (left to go on mat leave)-London
February 2022 to August 2024
Lumanity are a company who specialise in the Life Sciences field. Their growth has happened not only
from their success predominantly within Client Services but also by acquiring related, smaller companies
globally.
As a Talent Partner my role was to partner with a specific area of the business, building solid working
relationships with hiring managers and leads within my area and ensuring all roles are managed and filled
within the given time frame. During my time I successfully implemented a solid recruitment process,
subsequently seeing improvements in our hiring journey across my practice areas.
I was handed two very niche areas of the business. These were “The Leith Agency” and “Stripe
Communications” these are both separate companies which focus on PR and Digital Marketing along with
health focused roles in other areas of the business.
Some of my duties were:
• Managing the ATS, ensuring it is fully up to date (I’m most familiar with Workable, ICIMS, bullhorn)
• Providing a total recruitment experience for my hiring managers, this included an initial briefing call,
plan of recruitment which was tailored to each role, regular updates with HM, taking full ownership of
the candidate shortlisting from application/ interviews and offers or rejections
• Using LinkedIn, carrying out complex Boolean searches, creating pipelines and various projects
particularly for harder to fill roles
• Implementing a recruitment process for my two practice areas, working inline with wider company
guidance
• Getting involved in wider areas of the business, providing my support on roles I may be less familiar with
• Eliminating full use of external agencies. In my time here not a single role went to external agency
which meant external recruitment spend was zero
• Ensuring candidate experience was a smooth and enjoyable process.
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
Healios (UK)-(FTC)
April 2021 to December 2021
Healios are quickly becoming the UK’s largest virtual Mental Health company for
young people. Working in partnership with the NHS, Healios deliver virtual therapy
sessions and can diagnose neurodevelopmental conditions in children aged between
7-18. I was employed to help recruit for Clinical staff, my role included;
• Reviewing applications, inviting to interview, Interviewing candidates with keen attention to detail given
the nature of the role they would be doing ( CAMHS Clinicians) Declining unsuitable applicants, providing
feedback. Maintaining a database, ensuring new applicants are dealt with in a timely manner
• Delivering offers, populating offer letters and contracts
• All relevant admin which corresponds with interviews, offers, maintaining recruitment trackers, doing
final sign off's for new hires.
• Involvement in projects such as on-boarding for new employees, how we can make the company
benefits package stand out. Doing research projects such as Mentor/ menteeship programmes.
Researching roles in order to ensure as we grow we are working in line with what our competitors are
offering
• Using NHS jobs to advertise roles, pull candidate CV's onto our internal database.
• Assissting with recruitment for new roles in the New York office. This was a new project for the company.
I assisted the New York TA Specialist with headhunting, sending introductory emails, understanding
different job boards specific to the US, interviewing candidates for multiple roles including Practice
Manager,Clinical Lead.
HEAD OF GLOBAL TALENT ACQUISITION
Gripple-Sheffield
May 2018 to December 2020
Gripple are a Sheffield based manufacturing company, specialising in products used
in agriculture and construction. They are a Global company with offices based in
the UK, Chicago, Japan, France and Japan. I oversaw recruitment in all locations,
taking a hands approach to recruitment in all offices.
I was employed in 2018 when the HR Director made the decision to bring recruitment
in- house. This was therefore a newly created position.
Main duties of my role here were as follows;
• Providing and end to end recruitment cycle from advertising roles, interviewing, completing contracts
and new employee on-boarding
• Streamlining recruitment across the company, this meant liaising with multiple site managers across
the UK and global offices
• Understanding how to utilise social media as a recruitment tool, for example working with marketing
to uniform job roles advertised, using Linkedin, generating
multiple pipelines of candidates
• Implementing and conducting recruitment training, this ensured recruitment was the same across all
sites
• Implementing a global recruitment strategy which worked in line with the overall company vision. I
worked closely with the Senior Leadership team to understand how each office in different locations will
grow, a recruitment strategy was built around this.
• Leading the Graduate recruitment scheme, this included strategic advertising and building relationships
with Universities, attending recruitment fares, presenting at spotlight events for specific roles, producing
marketing material.
My approach ensured the highest number of graduate applications to the programme
since it had began with over 500 applicants to the scheme. I shortlisted and
worked closely witht he wider team to plan out the assessement day for the
Graduate programme.
• Building relationships with managers and directors, ensuring these relationship's were nurtured.
Providing training to department Team leads so that understood the process were working toward with
future new hires. .
• Managing an internal database of candidates, I implemented a very successful staff referral scheme in
which I would get family and friends recommended on a daily basis to do roles in packing, distribution,
saving me time and money overall
• Managing a recruitment budget. Strategic planning with commercial awareness around future hiring
and what the overall company vision was.
• understanding individual departments and promoting internal movement and progression. I worked
closely with different divisions and encouraged internal movement of staff depending on what their skill
were. Often roles were offered out on an internal basis first before then been advertised externally.
• I recruited in to Global locations, including Japan, Chicago, India, France. I successfully assisted in
the transfer of one of our London team over to Japan. I heavily resourced for the India ( Delhi) office,
making numerous hires into the sales team. I navigated cultural barriers successfully and was able to
work harmoniously with the global teams.
INTERNAL RECRUITMENT MANAGER
Navartis-South Yorkshire
August 2017 to April 2018
A recruitment company who specialises in the placement of white collar construction workers. I joined
through a period of high growth as they were setting up in another location UK based along with a new
venture in Australia. I was hired to Oversee all internal hiring into the business.
Hiring; overseeing ATS systems; interviewing; creating job adverts; resourcing for Australia; pulling
together contracts; streamlining recruitment overall; producing documentation for on- boarding new
hires
RECRUITMENT MANAGER
ACR Pharmaceuticals-(FTC) Sheffield
August 2016 to August 2017
RECRUITMENT MANAGER
Neat Group-Sheffield
June 2009 to June 2016
VISUAL STYLIST
Debenhams-South Yorkshire/ London
August 2007 to April 2009

Health science degree. via the open university

GCSE in Art
Don Valley High School - Doncaster, UK
2007