Case Studies

Overview: Through RM6229 1st Executive were engaged, to deliver a retained recruitment campaign of 32 IT Procurement & Commercial Manager vacancies spanning B2 (£45K), B3 (£65K) and B4 (£95K) levels. This was a time critical project, with the need to back-fill a contractor population, in order to create stability across a function of 75 FTE and to reduce the significant ...

Magna International – Europe & North AmericaStrategic Recruitment of Central Category Management & Procurement Excellence Teams In response to a major procurement transformation, 1st Executive were engaged to lead exclusively the recruitment of a new centralized team across Category Management (Direct & Indirect Procurement) and Procurement Excellence. EXCLUSIVE ...

Global Packaging Organisation - Over 30k Employees: 30k with a Turnover in excess of £7bnFollowing consistent outperformance, 1st Executive progressed from one of three suppliers on a competitive PSL to becoming the exclusive partner for procurement, supply chain, commercial functions, and logistics talent across Europe, the UK, and the US. Following rapid expansion and M&a...

FRIMLEY PARK NEW HOSPITAL - A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO EFFECTIVE PROJECT DELIVERY, INITIATING THE COMMERCIAL AND PROCUREMENT STRATEGY FROM INCEPTION1st Executive ensured effective delivery of the project from its earliest stages. This included initiating the commercial and procurement strategy from inception, and managing the complete process of selecting and onboarding new...

The BackgroundA high-growth global manufacturer. Our client required a Procurement Logistics Senior Director to operate remotely across North America, ideally based on the East Coast, to align with their main stakeholder communities.The client had previously advertised with no success finding suitable candidates within budget and, twice, had reached the offer stage only to ...

Background Our customer was already using some of the traditional large consultancies combined with contingent recruitment labour, however had lost visibility of many of the programmes, and was struggling to manage key deliverables due to the complexity of outsourcing various parts of the programme to multiple consultancies.Approach 1st Executive has contractual responsibil...

The BackgroundA four year old corporate procurement function leading all areas of indirect spend in a highly decentralised organisation where the awareness of corporate procurement at market level was poor and where savings were behind projection. Our brief was to find a new VP of Procurement who had a strong background across indirect in a multi brand consumer goods environ...

The BackgroundAvon is an international manufacturer and direct sales organisation operating in the beauty, household and personal care categories.  It had procurement and supply chain hubs in the US and the UK with a large logistics and operations hub in Poland. Having been through a transitioning period, the company had sold off its North American business and the global HQ...

The BackgroundCRH is an international building materials company which had been undertaking a wholesale transformation of its global procurement function leading to a high volume of new positions across both directs and indirects. We were tasked to run an initial campaign to deliver 12 roles against a very tight time frame. Our Approach There were some core challenges which ...

The BackgroundWe were approached by the CPO of Revlon to assist with a recruitment campaign for two senior procurement roles after a local US search firm had failed to deliver.Our Approach We identified best in class organisations who had candidates that would match Revlon’s desired profile. After a thorough mapping exercise, it became clear that the organisations which had ...

The BackgroundOur relationship with BP goes back to 2005 when we won the tender for indirect procurement contract recruitment. Our ongoing success, depth of knowledge and the relationships we developed since then has led to our appointment onto the PSLs for every area of procurement and supply chain recruitment for both temporary and permanent appointments. Our ApproachIt’s ...

The BackgroundThis global life sciences company is split into three areas, pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare and won the tender to be appointed onto the preferred supplier list back in 2011. Our ApproachWe work through the MSP and have been instrumental in driving change to better engage second tier suppliers with spotlight calls and weekly review calls with ...

The BackgroundThe MSTAR framework is a national framework for the provision of managed temporary agency resourcing services to local authorities, schools and academies, emergency services, registered charities and other wider public sector organisations throughout the UK.  We are a fully vetted and approved supplier on this framework and deliver into 23 of the 30 London boro...

The BackgroundValue Retail is a family owned company which creates and manages luxury shopping outlet destinations. There are 16 sites across the world including Bicester Village – the 2nd biggest foreign tourist attraction after Buckingham Palace. Investors brought in a CPO and following a due diligence exercise approached 1st Executive in order to staff a lean procurement ...

The BackgroundFollowing the appointment of Inmarsat’s first Global VP of Procurement, and based on our proven track record of delivery across a number of her previous leadership roles, we were engaged to lead the delivery of a complex programme of recruitment in order to drive the growth of a new procurement organisation in a ‘Brownfield’ environment.  A clearly defined stra...