The newly appointed Director of recruitment consultancy Better Placed has outlined its “ambitious growth plans”, plans to expand its tech division and recent run of new hires.
The Better Placed Group, which was founded in 2002, has appointed Alison Livesey as Director.
She joins from recruitment agency The Candidate, where she was an Associate Director.
The business specialises in digital, marketing, sales, executive search and tech recruitment with a broad list of clients including Costa Coffee, Co-op, AO, Iceland and CreativeRace.
With offices in Manchester, Leeds and London, the organisation has outlined a “clear growth plan”.
“We want to keep hiring talented recruiters across all our locations with a plan to double in size over the next few years,” Alison Livesey told Prolific North.
Alison will be based out of the Manchester office but working across the North building on her existing relationships, whilst continuing to network at a senior or C-suite level.
She has just over 10 years of experience in the recruitment world and has worked both agency-side as well as in-house specialising in digital, ecommerce and marketing.
With multichannel recruitment experience across various sectors, she plans to utilise her experience to grow the Better Placed network of candidates and clients and aims to bring new ways of working to the table.
She rejoins the recruitment agency after working as a Consultant and Senior Consultant at Better Placed five years ago.
On why she opted to return to the company, she attributes this to its “unwavering dedication to quality”.
“I’ve always known, and it’s known in the industry, that Better Placed hires good recruiters that are knowledgeable,” she said, “they are uncompromising in the standard of work they deliver”.
In the last month, the company has continued with its growth plans by recruiting five new hires and anticipates recruiting additional new hires prior to the Christmas period.
She revealed that the business has also hired an experienced Marketing Manager who is set to start within the month.
“Our new Marketing Manager will play a key role in how we are represented in the market and bring a new dynamic to our candidate and client communications,” she said.
Alongside the new hires she said the business is also making “major operational changes”, which includes a complete overhaul of its CRM system.
