Rhianna Bates

Focused on 360 recruitment of procurement professionals across the country. This role was remote and involved, but was not limited to, approaching clients about new requirements, finding new projects, advertising, sourcing candidates, liaising with and interviewing candidates, frequent communication with clients, arranging interviews, onboarding new hires, billing and accurately providing rates, and feeding back insights into the current market. As this role encompassed the entirety of the resourcing process I was often tasked with a high number of deadlines which I was comfortable working to due to my strong organisational skills. Value Match Limited is primarily a procurement consultancy and as such we primarily focused on supporting other businesses and government bodies to fill their procurement needs. As I was new to procurement, I undertook a lot of self led training and research to build my skills and expand my knowledge. As part of my role I researched, created and managed my own projects within the resourcing team such as my ‘Procurement Stars Reverse Recruitment’ project and my “...of the week” campaign on LinkedIn, where I would highlight a candidate and job each week across my LinkedIn pages to reach as many people as possible. This has been very successful in terms of impressions, feedback, and responses to posts, even with it only launching in December 2022.

Permanent role involving liaison with central recruitment team to ensure all recruitment in the Business Faculty runs smoothly; also personal assistant to Faculty Manager, managing emails and diary; also providing support to the Faculty Operations Manager in all aspects of building operations. In addition, this role supported all Faculty Team tasks and the Senior Faculty Administrator with any tasks as requested (including appeals, complaints, issues for the Executive Team and meeting support). As part of this role I was the main contact for stakeholders across the Business School with the Faculty Office and the Operations teams. As such, I also supported tasks such as building management, health and safety, fire safety, diary management, liaising with other departments and across faculties, floorplans, event management, recruitment, meeting administration, email monitoring, and many other tasks which I picked up as needed. This role required high attention to detail, and an effective use of time management as I worked under three managers in different roles, all of which are highly important to the successful running of not only the department, but the Business School as a whole.

Temporary role providing administrative and HR support for the Head Office and the CEO. Role included creating new HR filing systems, consumable purchasing, minute taking, transcribing, and general operations of the building. Skills required included a key attention to detail, a good understanding of numeracy and finance, ability to manage own workload, ability to prioritise tasks when extremely busy, ability to keep calm under stressful situations, and a high level of organisation and planning.