Christopher Danks

I co-founded Lumin Talent in order to create a step change in how SME companies in the IT sector manage their recruitment, focusing on trust in the relationship, quality of hire. We have vast experience in supporting organisations develop and deliver their recruitment strategies. Coupled with our expertise in the IT sector, this allows us to help organisations attract and retain their key talent for the long term.

My role within Cielo was to be solely responsible for the overall accountability for delivering the recruitment outsource service into Honeywell. Responsibilities included: • P+L Responsibility • Managing onsite recruitment team (circa 11 people) • Driving Honeywell recruitment roadmap to continuously improve the Honeywell recruitment service • Helped Honeywell to demonstrate further value.

I was previously responsible for managing contingent service on 2 large AMS accounts Vodafone and Zurich. Since joining in May 2011 I have increased the revenue streams on both accounts significantly, one of the accounts revenue has increased by 82% since I joined in May. I have also helped reduced client cost substantially for both the short and long term. I have also implemented various changes in relation to increasing the ‘value added capability’ across both accounts.

I was previously responsible for managing the EMEA recruitment strategy and delivery for Global Services (Security and IT Solutions business). I was also responsible responsible for directly managing the delivery on critical/high level roles within Security Solutions.

e-CRM People is a company that was set up 7 years ago to provide IT staff specifically within the CRM market. I was brought into e-CRM People to manage many large blue chip accounts within the IT and Telecoms space. Main clients included Symantec, Accenture and various Telecoms Vendors. Accenture was a main account where I worked closely with the client to ensure that their recruitment needs were serviced. We were the top performing agency when I left the business.

S.Com is now part of the Carlisle Group where I was responsible for supplying staff to BT Global Services. I was responsible for managing and supplying to all contract requirements from BTGS, which average at 40 requirements per month. I have supplied BTGS contractors to Defence, IT, Telco, Banking and internal customers.

M-Urge is a small company (4 people) who distribute/resell a number of software applications. I was responsible for selling a suite of products ranging from project management tools to process mapping tools although I was also responsible for software support, documenting company process, support and admin. I built relationships with and supplied to organisations including Computacenter, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, BT, PITO, Surrey County Council and Central Government.

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