Challenge
Coty were centralising their colour cosmetics manufacturing into their site in Ashford and as a result had over 100 vacancies. The talent team had filled most of them but had 35 remaining roles and felt the local talent market was exhausted. The talent team were also struggling with capacity to manage the volume of recruitment as well as the number of new starters needing to be onboarded.
Solution
Pod were engaged to fill the remaining 35 roles within a 2 month period, from operatives to engineers to planners. One of our team operated as a Coty implant, taking all admin work away from the team from organising assessment processes to sending out contracts. We organised new marketing and advertising campaigns and did a headhunt strategy for each role to unlock new talent.
Result
The talent team had found more time to focus on onboarding and L&D so could prioritise important tasks rather than recruitment admin. All roles were filled within a 2-month period and the factory was back on track, hitting its output and customer services targets.
Challenge
Kraft Heinz had 15 procurement roles to fill in the Netherlands. The TA team had no functional experience recruiting for procurement roles which meant the quality of candidates had been poor, and they had no rigorous interview process for roles. Lastly, Kraft Heinz had recently been acquired by 3G and had a bad reputation in the market and candidates didn’t want to join.
Solution
Pod did an employer brand survey of relevant candidates in the Netherlands and found out more about KH’s brand perception. We then created employer branding based on their unique selling points, knowing this would attract the right type of candidate. We sent an implant to work in their office, who also ran interview training with the whole senior procurement team and co-ordinated all recruitment activities, as well as managed all the sourcing of candidates.
Result
13 out of 15 roles were filled within 3 months, and all were filled within 5. The candidate information pack received great feedback and candidates interviewing were both a good cultural fit and interested in the business. The interview process and training we delivered was implemented as a permanent solution in the procurement team.
Challenge
Danone were re-locating 3 of their business units into a new site in London, and as a result had over 70 vacancies across Supply Chain & Commercial functions. Supply Chain & Logistics were the biggest bulk of vacancies, with over 25 to fill.
Solution
Pod were engaged to fill the 25+ Supply Chain & Logistics vacancies plus a few in Quality Assurance, and we also provided an implant solution at Danone who took care of the Commercial vacancies as well. She managed agency partnerships, created selection tools and ran all assessment and offer processes for each vacancy. Pod then created an internal team that were responsible for delivering on all vacancies within the Supply Chain space.
Result
The talent team at Danone had the capacity they needed to run the project and fill all roles. Pod successfully placed all roles we were engaged on across senior level planning, customer collaboration, 3PL management, supply planners, QA Managers and entry level co-ordinators.