Aaron Ward - Lead Talent Partner, Solutions Driven

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Work Background

MBDATalent Acquisition Lead (Embedded via Solutions Driven)

May. 2023 - Oct. 2023Currently leading an amazing team of 7 (3 x UK-based Talent Partners and 4 x Talent Resource Partners) globally to assist MBDA's Talent team with sourcing and hiring specialist skill sets across Engineering, Legal, Electronics and Executive based roles in the Defense Sector for some of the worlds largest providers.

Solutions DrivenTalent Acquisition Lead

Apr. 2023Manchester, England, United Kingdom

AVIV GroupGlobal Talent Partner Lead (via JOIN Talent)

Dec. 2022 - Mar. 2023Berlin, GermanyAVIV Group are a sister company of the well known conglomerate Axel Springer. Their mission - to become the largest and most prominent Property Tech / Proptech business in Europe with footprints across Spain, Germany, France and Israel. During this project, I worked as a joint Lead across a team of 8 working Product and Tech based roles across Europe.

TravelPerkGlobal Talent Partner (via JOIN Talent)

Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2022London, England, United KingdomA Spanish Tech Unicorn 🦄 that has grabbed the attention of Forbes, Wired and SaaS1000 as "The fastest growing start up in the world". Sourcing & hiring Senior AWS Dev ops specialists and Mobile Engineers (iOS & Android) across Barcelona, Berlin, London, Birmingham and Edinburgh 🥳 🤩 Product based Squads with a focus on training and modern tech stack engineering principles 🙌 Have raised $314 Million over 6 funding rounds. They officially became stamped as a Unicorn after raising $115 Million 💸 Valued at $1.3 Billion 🏠 Circa 1000 Staff around 30 countries 🎂 Only 7 years old, founded in 2015 ⭐️ Rated 4.9 on Glassdoor 📣 Clients include; Uber, Sumup, Revolut, Farfetch ✈️ They have the world's largest travel inventory (yes that's against everyone you can think of)

Booking.comGlobal Talent Partner - Tech (via JOIN Talent)

May. 2022 - Sep. 2022Manchester, England, United KingdomTechnology Recruiter at Booking.com. The #1 accommodation provider and one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world. Delivery for; Design, Software Engineering Management and Project Management across Tech in the UK (Manchester and London)

ClearScoreLead Global Talent Partner (via JOIN Talent)

Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2022London, England, United KingdomClearScore is a revolutionary FinTech with 250 + staff, valued at over £700 Million with 15 million users and currently going through a very exciting pathway to becoming a FinTech Unicorn. Working alongside the Director of Talents existing internal team I led a team of 5 Senior recruiters and 2 Sourcers to cover talent acquisition for; Mobile Development (iOS and Android), Backend Development (Scala), Front End Development, Product, Design, Finance and Heads of Engineering across the UK, Australia and South Africa. Over £1.4 Million saved in recruitment agency fees across 120 placements! #JOINTTalent delivering results 🥳

Join TalentGlobal Talent Partner

Jun. 2021 - Mar. 2023RemoteJoin Talent provides businesses with the technology, manpower, and expertise required to enable you to hire & onboard the talent you need to meet your growth plans. No ‘cookie cutter’ solutions, or singular reliance on ‘best practice’ models - instead of a truly bespoke suite of solutions that get right to the heart of your specific hiring challenges. We support an enviable range of brands - currently across 16 countries - and growing fast. We are fiercely proud of our reputation for being deeply client-centric and for delivering more value than our customers could even have anticipated. Clients / projects have included; - Ideo - ClearScore - Booking.Com - TravelPerk - AVIV Group

IDEOGlobal Talent Partner (Via JOIN Talent)

Jun. 2021 - Jul. 2021Part of a UK team of 6, working in partnership to help IDEO scale their EMEA and USA and attract the biggest and most amazingly skilled Talent into; Design, Copywriting, Project Management, Software Engineering, and Human Resources.

Gear4Music Ltd.Talent Partner (Tech)

Feb. 2021 - Jun. 2021Manchester Area, United KingdomWorking with the UK's largest music industry distributor and ECommerce brand! 🎶 Roles/departments included; Test Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, IT Managers, Helpdesk staff, Sales staff, Marketing, Senior level management, Project & Programme Management.