Ben Usher

Senior Talent Partner

the rec hub

Mar 2026 - Current (8 months)

Co-Founder

Neurovirse

Dec 2025 - Current (11 months)

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

The University of Manchester

Jan 2025 - Feb 2026 (1 year 2 months)

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Maxwell Bond

Nov 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year)

A Senior Talent Acquisition Manager that is responsible for sourcing world class recruitment talent to join an incredibly ambitious business on their scale up journey! Responsible for building and leading the Talent Acquisition function, and developing and implementing the full internal recruitment process from start to finish.

At Maxwell Bond, our purpose is clear: to maximise people's potential. As a strategic partner in talent acquisition, we go beyond traditional recruitment, empowering both clients and candidates to thrive in their respective endeavours. Specialising in Technology, Digital, Sustainability, and Change & Transformation, we redefine talent acquisition with a commitment to trust, innovation, and inspiration. Ou

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Senior Talent Partner

ReCulture Agency

May 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 7 months)

Talent Acquisition Partner via ReCulture

YardLink

May 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year)

Founder

Path Technologies Ltd

Aug 2021 - Nov 2023 (2 years 4 months)

Talent Acquisition Partner via RPOne powered by Morson

Manchester United

Jul 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year)

With a unique 50-year heritage, Morson Talent has an outstanding reputation for placing brilliant people into the right roles with exciting organisations across the globe.

At Morson, recruitment is more than filling roles. It's transforming businesses, fuelling industry and innovation, creating fulfilling careers and opening up the world of work for all.

Placing people first, it's our guiding principle and it's our responsibility. We are ambitious for you.

With this at our heart our candidates return, our clients become advocates, and our employees thrive in a successful culture that nurtures their ambitions.

As part of the Talent Acquisition Team at Manchester United, it was our responsibility t

Operations Director & Co Founder

talented

Jan 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Your people are your business… they’re ours too!

talent:ed is a boutique people strategy consultancy. We specialise in helping organisations obtain optimum financial and operational return from the money that they invest in their people.
With a combined experience of nearly 3 decades in people strategy, we have long been frustrated by the limiting processes, cultures and below-par outcomes that the typical 66% of operational expenditure delivers for most organisations.

At talent:ed, we challenge, question and disrupt established business processes in order to obtain the enhanced outcomes that organisations deserve.

We have a track record of assisting organisations achieve increased returns on their peop

Talent Manager

Trustify Cyber

Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Trustify Experts is a business designed by cyber Experts, for cyber Experts.

The Trustify team has delivered Cyber Security services for many years, frequently delivering expert people alongside our expert solutions. We're a Cyber Experts Talent Community and marketplace for Contract project resourcing, permanent Expert recruitment, and delivery of managed services and consulting.

We are the go-to provider for any organisation needing cyber security Experts and the #1 place to join if you're a cyber security Expert looking for their next role. We will accelerate your time-to-hire, increase the accuracy of your hiring process, and thus maximise your project success.
We continually map the market across every Cyber

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Operations Manager

Polidor Love Rockets

Dec 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 4 months)

- Managing the day to day operations of two different sites/venues.
- Managing a total of 18 staff members from managers to bartenders, servers and chefs.
- Costing weekly rota's and wage reports focusing on gross profits and margins in accordance with targets set by the business
- Cashing up three tills at the end of every shift, calculating invoices, till sheets and safe check spreadsheets ensuring that everything is balanced.
- Producing weekly forecasts and calculating wet and dry budgets across both sites.
- Controlling stock and weekly deliveries and orders for the bar and kitchen.
- Liaising with local and multi national suppliers, building and maintaining relationships with them going forward.
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General Manager

Love And Rockets

Apr 2017 - Mar 2020 (3 years)

- Managing the day to day operational running of the entire venue.
- Managing a total of 9 staff from bartenders to food runners and chefs.
- Opening up and closing down the bar, floor and function room. Setting the venue up ready for food and drink service and ensuring that the venue is clean and tidy of an evening.
- Cashing up two tills at the end of every shift, calculating invoices, till sheets and safe check spreadsheets ensuring that everything is balanced.
- Producing rota's on a weekly basis taking into account availability and wage budgets.
- Calculating wages on a weekly basis and producing wage reports.
- Controlling stock and weekly deliveries and orders for the bar and kitchen.
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Talent Acquisition Advisor

The Very Group

Sep 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 5 months)

Talent Acquisition Advisor - To act as an integral member of the talent acquisition team through dealing with the end to end recruitment process for a number of live vacancies as well as for our key talent pipelines. Also to support the team with additional ad hoc research work and headhunting exercises as required e.g competitor analysis.
• Talent mapping for specific vacancies using a variety of methods e.g. web, social media. This will include qualification of names and roles and reaching out to candidates by email and over the phone
• Proactively build and engage with talent pools across the business. Act as a brand ambassador for Shop Direct in all communications and identify what new stories and information would resonate wi

Recruitment Consultant

Hays

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 1 month)

I worked at Hays as a Recruitment Consultant, recruiting Office Support professionals across the region on a daily basis.
• I was responsible for building strong, lasting relationships and engaging with clients and candidates to achieve results. I provided clients with the correct candidate to fulfil their needs by using initiative and asking the right questions.
• I was responsible for conducting interviews and regularly attending client visits/business meetings where I was able to engage clients to generate new business opportunities. I have strong commercial awareness and I am able to identify commercial information/leads and follow these up.
• I was responsible for liaising with people at all levels of seniority and can d

Host/Champagne Cocktail Bartender

Signature Living Ltd

Mar 2014 - Aug 2014 (6 months)

• I worked at 30 James Street from the first day that it opened and assisting in the smooth running of the opening and the launch party and then our first day of service.
• I was the first point of contact for all customers. I had responsibility for showing customers around the hotel and providing them with information about the hotels facilities and features. It was imperative that the customer was given information relevant to their particular needs, for example if they were booking an event or conference.
• I was also responsible for, and assisted in, all areas of the bars performance and operational requirements. This included liaising with guests to ensure their needs were met and that they were provided with the highest leve

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Freelance Actor/Model

BananaFish ManagementPHA ManchesterPulse Agency

May 2005 - May 2012 (7 years 1 month)

Modelling – I have been involved in modelling from a very young age. I initially began doing catalogue work and smaller photo-shoots for the likes of ‘Index’ and ‘Argos’. As I got older and more experienced I started landing sports shoots in larger campaigns with companies such as ‘JJB Sports’ where I modelled rugby wear. Most recently I featured in MTV’s ‘Plain Jane’, a reality TV programme as a male model.

I have been represented in the past by PHA Model and Casting agency and most recently Pulse Agency - Liverpool. As a represented model I have attended many castings with corporate companies and brands such as ‘The Perfume Shop’ and ‘DFS’. I have travelled to London on numerous occasions where I have worked with photography co

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