Amy Morris, Managing Director, Oakleaf Partnership
Samantha Hurley, Operations Director, APSCo
Vanessa Collins, COO, Joss Search
Running a contract desk alongside other revenue streams, provides a business with a balanced and predictable financial outlook by managing cash flow and ensuring consistent revenue streams. It helps even out fluctuations in demand, allowing the company to maintain stability. A contract desk also fosters collaboration between teams, as different departments—such as sales, operations, and customer service—work together to meet contract obligations. By leveraging diverse skill sets, the business can deliver a seamless and high-quality customer experience. This structured approach allows for smoother operations, better resource allocation, and long-term customer relationships, driving both efficiency and satisfaction.
How a mix of interim and permanent placements can help with the volatility of the recruitment market
Vanessa Collins, COO, Joss Search
Matt Coburn, Head of Customer Success & Partnerships, Sonovate
Paul Chamberlain, Partner & Head of Employment, JMW Solicitors LLP
Amy Morris, UK Managing Director, Oakleaf Partnership
Senior management and recruitment business owners looking to expand their services either into the interim or the permanent market.
Partner & Head of Employment, JMW Solicitors LLP
Paul is Head of the JMW Employment team and has nearly 30 years’ employment law experience. He has nationally recognised expertise in the law relating to the recruitment industry, advising and providing training on employment status issues, the Agency Workers’ Regulations, the Conduct Regulations, the Working Time Regulations and industry-specific regulatory compliance matters.
Paul specialises in recruitment work across all sectors of the industry, both temporary and permanent.
Hel has long-standing associations with APSCo, TEAM (The Employment Agents’ Movement), REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation), ALP (Association of Labour Providers) and FCSA (Freelancers and Contractor Services Association).
Head of Customer Success & Partnerships, Sonovate
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Chief Operating Officer, Joss Search
Vanessa has a passion for operational excellence with extensive experience which enables her to bring a rounded approach, she is known for her pragmatic and effective solutions that has supported organisations of all sizes, in the last 25 years she has worked across many areas of the recruitment industry; Executive Search, Interim Management, Contingent & Volume Recruitment, Recruitment Communications, Employer Branding, Creative & Digital Marketing, Media, and Assessment Services, where she has led teams, developed services and implemented solutions both internally for Recruitment businesses and for Private and Public Sector clients.
As a COO Vanessa’s remit covers; Service Development, Change Management, People & Culture, HR, Marketing, IT, Governance, Compliance and Legal, however developing the talent across the business still remains her favourite part of the job.
Prior to that Vanessa has an interesting background from being a Creative Director of an award-winning agency, Operations Director where she jointly ran a Recruitment Advertising Agency, Head of Sales for a large Full-Service Recruitment Agency and later running all the service areas as a Director reporting into Global Head office in Zurich.
UK Managing Director, Oakleaf Partnership
Amy has spent 15 years at Oakleaf Partnership progressing from Consultant to her current role at UK Managing Director.
Amy starter her career within an international recruitment firm focusing on temporary resource across the commercial support sectors in Yorkshire. She moved to Oakleaf in 2008 to their newly opened office in Leeds where she stayed for two and a half years.
Having moved to London in 2011, she managed the growth of Oakleaf’s Commerce & Industry team and led the development of their interim business, also overseeing Regions and Reward & Analytics divisions before becoming Managing Director of Oakleaf Partnership’s UK business.
Creating similar opportunities for her colleagues is something that Amy is extremely passionate about. She has set up a Women in Leadership forum to continue to share experiences and solutions to challenges that can be faced by women in the recruitment and HR sectors, highlighted in her regular podcasts. Amy is also a member of Oakleaf’s ED&I focus group and sits of the board of Oakleaf Group.
Away from work, living in south west London means regular visits to both the Stoop and Twickenham are a must.