Jonathan Stewart

• • Bootstrapped hypergrowth company named one of companies 2021-2026. Circa 900 hires per year globally. Bogota office h/c doubled in 1 year. I lead the Global TA team (30+) across Americas, Europe and APAC: transformed the global team and structure, introducing specialism and raising capability and increased YoY hires by 20% despite 40% TA budget cut.

• • Established sourcing RPOs to buffer Europe-wide volume hiring into Client Services team, doubling hiring capacity within one year.

• • Personally handled hiring for co-founder's global Strategy Consulting team. 10 hires annually at MD-Sr Mgr.

• • Introduced new "bench" hiring format for workforce optimisation; incorporated a training team as an extended onboarding process to increase productivity, reduce empty desk time and minimise revenue loss.

• • Launched first Dialectica intern and graduate programme in Greece, Bogota and Montreal. On track for over 80% intern conversion overall.

• • Built Assessment Day format for volume sales hiring and moved all second round hiring in person, with an immediate 30% improvement in Quality of Hire KPIs (6 month performance and attrition).

• • Integrated internally-built agentic AI tools into sourcing and interviewing processes and across reporting.

• • Joined Kantar just prior to Bain Capital 60% investment and subsequent PE transformation of the business.

• • Talent lead for projects to separate and sell portfolio components such as Kantar Public and Worldpanel.

• • Dual roles leading c. 80 recruiters across all continents, closing over 6,000 hires per year.

• • Integrated S Asia, NASEA, Greater China and ANZ sub-regional teams under APAC and established new global TA team across growth pillars of Tech/Product, Ops & Global Data Centres and Functions.

• • Led global project to roll out a new capability and skills taxonomy company-wide based on Workday Skills Cloud. Implemented AI and machine learning tools to drive a capability-based approach to hiring.

• • Helmed a project to establish a global Talent function, talent roadmap and talent marketplace across Kantar.

• • Built a tech and business services hub in Porto (300 hires Y1 ) from green field.

• • Rolled out Managed Service Provider model in APAC for contingent hiring, resulting in US$2m cost saving.

• • Conducted strategic vendor and optimisation project together with Procurement resulting in $3m savings.

• • Implemented a data-led, talent insights focused approach to workforce planning using market data and predictive analytics as well as lagging and leading indicators such as attrition and utilisation rates.

• • Led global employer branding workstream. Appointed external creative agency. Launched new EVP.

• • Managed TA team of 30 across 13 countries in APAC, handling over 2,500 reqs per year, including exec.

• • Led global TA process optimisation project, using AI and machine learning tools to automate and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. TA was recognised for its strategic advisory and talent insight capabilities.

• • Personally handled c-suite hiring at Head of and Director level across the region.

• • Hiring largely tech: across BD, Sales, Technical and Consulting; Cloud, Cyber and Infra.

• • Increased female representation in regional senior leadership by 25%. Built in-house Consulting team.

• • Established sales assessment comprising case studies, role plays, assessment days and gamified tools.

• • Partnered with TM and HR on development and roll out of a new succession management process.

• • Implemented Beamery CMS; created a segmented TA content strategy team to promote employer brand, build engagement and increase inbound leads. Quality of Hire improved by 32% over 2-year period.

• • Vendor streamlining through PSL and introduction of standard agreements. Reduced spend by 40%.

• • Set up TA shared services (admin support) team in Manila in 2016 and wider shared service in KL in 2018.