assured - uniting ambition
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Assured Recruitment Solutions
Our Story
HistoryAssured is an innovative recruitment group specialising in professional and managed services for high growth, invested, businesses to consumer organisations in the domestic (United Kingdom) market.
The principal focus since the formation of Assured in 2006 has been the development of innovative recruitment services and solutions, providing a support framework for industry talent growth, underpinned by end to end financial security for Assured and our customers.
We have a history of success and high growth having previously built a leading technology retailer and distributor from 3500 to 12,000 full time employees over a period of five (5) years. *Y2000 - Y2005
PresentToday we enjoy working with some of the industries most recognised international brands,delivering exceptional domestic business growth from talent.
We believe that exceptional talent delivers exceptional business growth and performance, for our customers and our business alike.
Assured is one of the fastest growing businesses in the United Kingdom, with a clear vision and strategy of our future growth.
FutureWe’re growing, the future’s exciting and as part of our vision and strategy Assured is exploring opportunities for new partnerships, ventures, mergers and acquisitive growth.
Faster, Smarter DeliveryContinuous improvement and investment in technology, people and process to drive service value and operational efficiencies. We’re here to serve, we’re here to drive continuos improvement and we’re here to deliver market leading solutions, we call this ”Recruitment as a Service”.
Collaboration and InnovationWe embrace change, it’s inevitable and through customer collaboration and innovation we invest in next generation products, services and solutions to drive industry standards and quality assurance. From new talent engagement applications to lean processes, customer experience portals to new, innovative commercial delivery models.
Return on InvestmentCustomer focused commercial development to increase liquidity and generate commercial longevity. Delivery of high quality talent to lower attrition, drive scalability and increase the bottom line. Return on investment from talent acquisition, deployment and development is core to our business success.
Our Simple Vision
Our Core Markets:
- Retail and Consumer Goods
- Financial Services - Technology, Media and Entertainment - Gaming and Gambling
Clear Market Expertise, Focus and Strategy
Private equity or venture capital backed “invested” portfolio of customers in periods of concentrated growth, recovery and transformational change.
High brand equity portfolio with investment in operations and infrastructure including people, process and technology in highly competitive, consumer markets:
Our Market Focus
Our Customers
“Invested, high growth businesses with skills shortages and a strong demand for improved technology and processes; in a market outside of economic recession offers Assured opportunities for scalability, risk mitigation and concentrated growth”
Adam Shaw, Group Managing Director
Horizontal and VerticalMarket Alignment
Acquisitive Growthand Buy and Build
VCI and PEI markets
InvestedMarkets
Multi-Channel
Merger andAcquisition
OUR STRATEG
Y
High performance investments, concentrated growth, turnaround and recovery.
Structured market alignment to mitigate economic risk and leverage economies of scale.
Portfolio M&A for Risk Mitigation and high growth market expansion.
Our Strategy
Turnover
5 Years
859% 329%855%
Profitability
5 Years
Full Time Employees
5 Years
Five (5) years of solid compounded annual growth rates
(CAGR), where capital investment in continuos
improvement is at the forefront of our growth strategy.
Capital investment in People, Process and Technology
to mitigate risk and deliver consistency and scalability.
Commercial
High Growth
Our Growth
“Recruitment services delivered across multiple channels, underpinned by advanced customer engagement to design and deliver complete customer scalability, customer longevity and financial return on investment”
Mark Kirkbride, Commercial Director
Retained, search and selection solutions for Executive interim management and leadership.
>> £150 K + and £800pd +
Bespoke and customisable contingent recruitment solutions.
>> £30K - £150K and £500 - £800pd
High volume and Managed Service recruitment solutions
>> £15K - £40K and £100 - £500pd
LEADERSHIPExecutive RecruitmentInterim Recruitment
SOLUTIONSPermanent RecruitmentContract Recruitment
DIRECTPermanent RecruitmentTemporary Recruitment
Multi-Channel Delivery
DigitalMedia andTechnology
Multi-Channel and
Marketing
SupplyChain andLogistics
Financeand
ProcurementHRand
ChangeSales &Service
Multi-Channel Shared Services
Our Service Delivery
Customer Support Services
Technology Support
Commercial Shared Service Customer Engagement Service Design and
DeliveryInfrastructure &
Operations
Group Operations
FinanceBack Office
Business Support Services
Project Management Office
Technology Services
Finance Services
Commercial Leadership
Creative Marketing Solutions
MarketingBack Office
Business Development
Commercial Management Service Management
Service Delivery
Robust support services to deliver complete customer experience and solutions.
Capital investment in robust, highly scalable infrastructure and group operations, to deliver consistent shared services for advanced, customer focussed shared services and service design and end to end delivery.
- Group Infrastructure and Operations- Commercial Shared Services- Customer Engagement- Service Design and Delivery
Build Design Engage Deliver
Business Scalability
Technology
Process
Collaboration
DiscoverDeliver
Design
Deploy
AssuredEngagement
Process
Improving our products, servicesand processes through innovationand return on investment.
Continuous Improvement
People
Our Customer Engagement Process
Engagement driven by understanding, knowledge, expertise, innovation with quality assurance as standard:
- Leading Industry Standards- Lean Processes and Service Delivery- Service Orientated “Recruitment as a Service” - Business and Brand Advocacy
- Talent - On - Demand
1. Discovery Phase 2. Design Phase
A unique four stage approach to business engagement driven by continuos improvement
Change is inevitable, we embrace change at put it at the very forefront of our business and how we engage, collaborate and grow with our customers and business parters.
- People and Collaboration- Process and Technology
- Workshop Orientated- Annual Operating and Resource Planning- Capability / Ability to Execute Planning- Culture, Knowledge and Experience
- Requirement Definition - Cost to Serve, budget Planning
- Customised or Bespoke Solution- Attraction and Retention Strategy- Assessment and Deployment Framework- Customer Journey Mapping
- Brand Equity and Marketing - Service Rationalisation and Modernisation
3. Deploy Phase 4. Delivery Phase
- Business and Operational Integration- Ambassadorial Approach Brand and Business - Objectivity and Validation - Dedicated Resources and Management
- Process and Systems Integration- Service Management
- Risk Mitigation and Planning- Real Time Business Intelligence and Reporting- Relationship Management and Development - Delivery Improvement and Management
- Financial Mapping and Scoping
- Continuous Improvement
Our Customer Engagement Process
Assured has an unprecedented ability to:- Strategic Planning with high quality management information and modelling- Identify, Build and Deliver Business and Service Development opportunities- Deliver tangible Commercial advantages and benefits, Multi-Channel- Demonstrate real Return on Investment, internally and externally- Deliver results, and fiscal returns faster than the industry standard
Investment in industry leading, next generation technologies; Assureds’ cloud based systemenables global scalability and consistency in addition to delivering and supporting all businesses processes on one single, scalable platform including:
- Recruitment Process and Recruitment Process Re-Engineering - Business Development and Customer Engagement - Managed Services and Customer Service Delivery Portals - Bespoke Market Data, The APEX- Web and Job Boards Aggregation for Talent, Talent Banking and Talent on Demand- End to End integration with Social Media platforms- 360 degree, real time, Business Intelligence and Management Reporting- Business Management and Service Delivery Dashboards- Multi-Channel Data, Project Orientated Processes and Enablement
DATA POWERED BY ASSUREDapex
Talent on Demand // Digital Innovation
We track, trace and monitor over 150 Private Equity and Venture Capital “PE/VC” investment portfolios to fully understand our market place, to identify unique market opportunities, real time. We then structure highly innovative, commercially valuable propositions todrive mutual growth and economic value in our market place.
Advanced Stuff >
Bespoke data and business intelligence to fully understand the economic and commercial landscape of our industry, aiding the design of our expert solutions.
DATA POWERED BY ASSUREDapex
FTE Growth
Turnover Growth
Top Three Performers
Top 3 Performers in ProfitabilityAverageProfit growth
+182% +134% +81%#1 #2 #3
growth in FTE
+11.05%APEX RETAILERS
+12.8%
+3.8%
average turnover growthfor retailers in apex
compared to only 3.8%turnover growthfor the sector as a whole
5000%
370%
578%
-2.56%retail industryas a wholeRetailers
+70.8%OQNƥSAPEX
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The Assured Private Equity Index - APEX