Ajay Patel

Working onsite at Novartis Campus in Basel, I provide end to end recruitment process management, talent pooling and internal talent recruitment for Global TechOps, primarily for the EU and Asia Pacific regions. Supporting high profile recruitment initiatives at Top to "n minus three" levels. Objectives include: Staffing Process Management / Centralisation Agency / Search Firm Engagement Increase Quality of Hire Reduce Time to Hire Develop Talent Pools

Recruitment Manager working at MedImmune (AstraZeneca) - one of the world leaders in Biotechnology, Vaccine R&D and Manufacturing. Based at the site in Cambridge, I look after the recruitment for all European sites including Cambridge (R&D), Liverpool (Manufacturing) and Nijmegen (Manufacturing, Filling & Packaging).

Operations Manager working for CK Associates in the scientific and engineering recruitment industries. My key clients included major blue chip companies such as GSK, MSD, Unilever, Baker Petrolite through to small start up organisations. As Recruitment Operations Manager, I was in a strategic role, investigating and implementing new business ideas to increase GP whilst also involved in day-to-day recruitment. I became director of CK FirstStep - a spin off company for the recruitment of IP students.

EU & UK Recruitment Law Recruitment Practice

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