Ben Usher

A Senior Talent Acquisition Manager that is responsible for sourcing world class recruitment talent to join an incredibly ambitious business on their scale up journey! Responsible for building and leading the Talent Acquisition function, and developing and implementing the full internal recruitment process from start to finish. At Maxwell Bond, our purpose is clear: to maximise people's potential. As a strategic partner in talent acquisition, we go beyond traditional recruitment, empowering both clients and candidates to thrive in their respective endeavours. Specialising in Technology, Digital, Sustainability, and Change & Transformation, we redefine talent acquisition with a commitment to trust, innovation, and inspiration. Our approach combines cutting-edge tools and strategies with open, transparent relationships, ensuring tailored solutions that drive sustained growth. Discover the Maxwell Bond difference – where passion, innovation, and expertise converge to shape the future of talent acquisition. Recently won awards: • Tech Recruitment Agency of the Year – Technology Innovator Awards 2023 • Tech Recruitment Agency of the Year: Northern England – Technology Innovator Awards 2023 • Best Digital & Tech Recruitment Company: UK – Wealth & Finance Awards 2023 • Best Digital & Tech Recruitment Company – UK Enterprise Awards 2023 • GBEA Finalist 2022 • Best Global Digital & Tech Recruitment 2022 - SME News

With a unique 50-year heritage, Morson Talent has an outstanding reputation for placing brilliant people into the right roles with exciting organisations across the globe. At Morson, recruitment is more than filling roles. It's transforming businesses, fuelling industry and innovation, creating fulfilling careers and opening up the world of work for all. Placing people first, it's our guiding principle and it's our responsibility. We are ambitious for you. With this at our heart our candidates return, our clients become advocates, and our employees thrive in a successful culture that nurtures their ambitions. As part of the Talent Acquisition Team at Manchester United, it was our responsibility to resource, engage with and hire some of the most talented recruitment professionals in the market. Talent Acquisition Partner: At Manchester United, I was responsible for working with a whole host of internal stakeholders and hiring managers to fulfil their requirements by providing talented recruitment professionals for their business areas. I was also conducting internal candidate attraction, resourcing and headhunting activity for the club.

Your people are your business… they’re ours too! talent:ed is a boutique people strategy consultancy. We specialise in helping organisations obtain optimum financial and operational return from the money that they invest in their people. With a combined experience of nearly 3 decades in people strategy, we have long been frustrated by the limiting processes, cultures and below-par outcomes that the typical 66% of operational expenditure delivers for most organisations. At talent:ed, we challenge, question and disrupt established business processes in order to obtain the enhanced outcomes that organisations deserve. We have a track record of assisting organisations achieve increased returns on their people spend. We focus on resourcing, assessing, managing and transforming enterprises using their people. If you are tired of the same wasted investment and traditional approach to people led activities, we want to be your progressive people partner. www.talentedconsultancy.co.uk

Trustify Experts is a business designed by cyber Experts, for cyber Experts. The Trustify team has delivered Cyber Security services for many years, frequently delivering expert people alongside our expert solutions. We're a Cyber Experts Talent Community and marketplace for Contract project resourcing, permanent Expert recruitment, and delivery of managed services and consulting. We are the go-to provider for any organisation needing cyber security Experts and the #1 place to join if you're a cyber security Expert looking for their next role. We will accelerate your time-to-hire, increase the accuracy of your hiring process, and thus maximise your project success. We continually map the market across every Cyber Talent database to provide the most up-to-date work status, and we incentivise only the most practiced and qualified Expert candidates to register on our intuitive platform. It was my job as the Talent Manager at Trustify Experts to: - Lead all talent search and resourcing assignments in the cyber security sector ensuring that the candidate journey is unrivalled. - Conduct all market mapping and research activities on where we're going to source the best nationwide talent from - Devise numerous candidate attraction and engagement strategies to ensure our offering provides our Experts with the best experience time and time again - Compile monthly and quarterly communication plans with attractive candidate content that is going to display our offering and brand in the right way. - Engage in business development activity, considering where our new business is going to come from and what our approach should be. - Manage all candidate relationships through our applicant tracking system taking them from the start of the process to offer stage.