James Reynolds Head of Talent Acquisition | Talent Operations & Strategy |

Talent Acquisition Manager

Planning Inspectorate

Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

I lead Talent Acquisition strategy & operations, managing a team of Talent Acquisition professionals, focused on delivering efficient, high-quality hiring to achieve the strategy ambition of the organisation. Driving a transformation project to shift the team from traditional recruitment to strategic talent acquisition. Leading RecOps and line management, embedding better systems, data, and structure. Improving and automating TA processes to reduce manual work and increase consistency. Taking a customer-focused approach to ensure hiring meets the needs of both the business and candidates. I’m focused on making recruitment smarter, faster, and more impactful, with clear processes, better tools, and a team that’s set up to succeed.

Head of Talent Acquisition & Crewing

Beam formerly RovcoVaarst

Oct 2023 - May 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Appointed as the first Head of Talent, building and leading a high-performing hybrid Talent and Crewing team to scale the business from 80 to 230+ permanent employees and hire 150+ contractors across the UK, USA, and EMEA. Led strategic expansion of talent operations into new international markets, aligning hiring strategies with regional compliance, operational readiness, and business goals. Designed and implemented a comprehensive DE&I strategy focused on inclusive hiring, early talent, and leadership diversity, raising female representation from 18% to 30% and significantly improving hiring from underrepresented groups. Delivered agile, end-to-end Talent services through complex organisational change, including a company merger, globa

Partnerships Manager & Career Coach

iO Academy

Jul 2023 - Oct 2023 (4 months)

Mentored junior software developers during an intensive coding boot camp, preparing them for technical interviews and real-world workplace expectations. Provided 1:1 coaching on CV writing, LinkedIn optimisation, job search strategy, and interview readiness to support students’ transition into tech careers. Facilitated employer introductions and helped match students with roles at hiring partner organisations. Contributed to a 90 %+ graduate employment rate through ongoing mentorship and professional development support. Engaged with local tech employers across the South West to promote IO Academy’s BootCamp graduates for junior tech talent needs. Built and maintained strong relationships with regional companies to generate hiring pipe

Head of Talent Acquisition

Immersive

Sep 2019 - Jul 2023 (3 years 11 months)

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. Organizations can now prove their cyber resilience by measuring their readiness compared to industry benchmarks, building team capabilities, and demonstrating risk reduction and compliance with data-backed evidence. Immersive Labs is trusted by the world’s largest organizations and governments, including Citi,

Senior Talent Consultant

ey

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Partnered with stakeholders at the Director and Partner level to develop and execute talent acquisition and recruitment strategies within the Oceania advisory practice area with a focus on Technology, Digital, Cyber and Project skills. I promoted EY's employer brand and career opportunities to the candidate market to support EY's Vision 2020 strategy of being the leading global professional services organisation and building the highest performing diverse teams.

Recruitment Manager

Spire Healthcare Group plc

Jan 2018 - Aug 2018 (8 months)

Via TMP Lead Recruitment for Spire Healthcare

Senior Manager, Talent and Operations

TMP Worldwide UK

Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years)

Promoted to Senior Manager, successfully lead recruitment delivery teams, for tech, engineering, and government customers. Directed teams to deliver talent acquisition services to multiple RPO Public sector and Enterprise clients in the UK, EMEA and North America. Acted as interface between Sales and recruitment delivery teams scoping talent solutions for clients including Executive search, RPO, retained, contingent, social media advertising, diversity initiates and Talent projects.

Recruitment Manager

Parliamentary Digital Service

Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years)

Via TMP Leading Recruitment for Parliamentary Digital Service

Senior Technology Recruitment Consultant

Randstad UK

Jan 2016 - Sep 2016 (9 months)

Technology recruitment consultant in the IT Infrastructure & DevOps space

Sales Lead / Senior Consultant - Aerospace & Defence

Morson Talent

Apr 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years 9 months)

Aerospace & Defence consultant, providing recruitment and talent services

Business Development Executive

BMS Performance

Apr 2012 - Mar 2013 (1 year)

Helped Sales leaders recruit high performing talent and first sales person for startup Technology Recruitment division.

Sales Representative

Appco UK

Nov 2011 - Apr 2012 (6 months)

Direct sales for PayTV and first sales person in region for new startup B2B Sports division.

Chef

Inghams

Feb 2010 - Oct 2011 (1 year 9 months)

Chef in Devon and France recruited, managed and directed kitchen staff

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