Samantha Harley

Alliance Group process and export red meat products to over 65 countries worldwide. We are one of New Zealand’s largest employers with over 5000 staff across 6 plants and 2 corporate offices.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle recruitment process for multiple Corporate and manufacturing roles simultaneously while maintaining high-quality standards in candidate assessment and selection.
• Manage the annual Alliance Group Scholarships (Shareholder Bursary and Employee Family Bursary)
• Develop strong talent pipelines by utilising various sourcing techniques, including job boards, social media, direct searches via LinkedIn, networking and engaging with relevant recruitment agencies.
• Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter License and SEEK Talent Search to proactively identify and approach top talent for hard to fill vacancies.
• Engage with third party recruitment specialists, building and maintaining relationships, managing expectations and negotiating terms.
• Provide training and advice to hiring managers and the wider business regarding recruitment best practice.
• Reviewing and updating internal recruitment materials.
• Working closely with an external career brand agency to develop Alliance groups career brand and EVP.
• Ongoing conversations with the wider People and Culture team and stakeholders regarding feedback and suggestions for continuous improvements to our internal Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Graduate Programme recruitment activity, including attending University Careers fairs, developing programme material and collateral, advertising and interviewing as well as assisting in the planning of the graduates rotation.

Key highlights

• Significantly contributed to the creation and development of the Alliance Group Graduate Programme. Presented the programme idea to the Board of Directors and Executive team to request support and approval for the programme.
• Developed an entirely new online application process for our Seasonal recruitment campaigns to drive higher volumes of applications by ensuring the process for these critical seasonal roles was fit-for purpose.
• Successfully recruited seasonal workers from the Cook Islands during the middle of the COVID pandemic, despite strict international and domestic travel restrictions.
• Successfully lobbied Immigration New Zealand to provide an Exemption to the English Language Testing requirements for workers out of the pacific islands for our 2024/25 seasonal recruitment drive. This resulted in us securing experienced talent for our season as well as an industry-wide exemption that benefited multiple meat processing organisations.
• Significant contribution to Alliance Groups first ever company-wide Values Awards. Supporting the Lead in the overall design and development of the awards as well as all other associated activity.

Citycare Group are a leading national provider of construction, maintenance and management services across New Zealand's built environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Worked with our procurement team to implement a nationwide Managed Service Programme (MSP) to streamline our temp recruitment workforce
• I held full accountability and responsibility of the Hays Talent Solutions MSP managing a team of two
• Utilise LinkedIn recruiter to engage with potential talent for key roles requiring an active approach
• Development of specific and targeted sector specific recruitment campaigns, development of engaging collateral and campaigns bespoke to specific recruitment needs
• Development of nationwide Permanent recruitment terms for recruitment agencies
• Development of appropriate Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's)
• Ongoing development and utilisation of our Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
• Worked closely with our marketing team to help develop our talent and employment brand, introducing Citycare roles on to social media platforms including LinkedIn and Facebook
• Regularly attend industry relevant recruitment drives and events including JobFest and connexis Speedmeets
• Hosted Citycare's first Girls with HI-VIS event
• Citycare are a nationwide construction and maintenance contractor, with depots across 17 locations, 1500 permanent employees and a 10% contingent workforce

• I was responsible the recruitment of retail staff for Vodafone stores nationwide as part of the Hays Talent Solutions Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) model
• Full recruitment lifecycle for a variety of retail and customer service roles both temporary and permanent
• Liaising with key stakeholders
• Working with the internal Vodafone HR team on nationwide recruitment campaigns

• I was bought in as an in-house recruitment specialist to assist with recruitment for the Civil Construction Project Management (PMO) division
• My key role was to and to fill 30 Project Management roles which required immediate recruitment expertise
• Worked through a large backlog of applications requiring excellent communication and damage limitation skills
• Liaising with and building/maintaining existing relationships with a large volume of recruitment agencies, negotiating terms and fees
• Implemented a clear process for all recruitment agencies working with Citycare to follow, substantially reducing the amount of duplicated applications
• The new process also allowed quicker and more efficient feedback

• Full recruitment cycle for temporary and permanent Accounts Support, Engineering and Architecture roles, from generating the job to sourcing the relevant candidates and successfully filling the position.
• Sourcing Engineers from various locations around the world.

• I started my recruitment career in the UK with Computer people as an IT recruitment Resourcer and gained skills and experience in the fundamentals of recruitment.
• After 1 year, I joined Beresford Blake Thomas as an Associate Consultant and I was promoted to Recruitment Consultant after 6 months. I specialised in the Recruitment of Geotechnical Engineers for the South of the UK.