Relay: The Next Generation
Published: May 2009
Relay has appointed former Millennium Recruitment head, Louise Mottershaw, as Business Manager, Wakefield and South Yorkshire.
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Pictured: Louise Mottershaw, Business Manager, Wakefield |
A manufacturing and supply chain specialist, Louise's diverse background of staff deployment and personnel services includes a stint with the RAF and senior roles at Brook Street and Primetime, before founding Millennium Recruitment in Bradford, in 1999.
The company quickly grew to support some of the UK's major distribution, logistics and warehousing operations, including Royal Mail. A prime acquisition target, Millennium was sold in 2003, with Louise relocating to Spain.
Yearning a return to recruitment and Yorkshire earlier this year, she identified Relay as the most go-ahead and professional operation in the region and talked to founding partners, Steven Street and Laurence Elliott. Her approach was timely as they wanted to move on from day-to-day implementation, to spend more time working with clients on brand protection and reputation management.
At Wakefield, she will assemble her own team of consultants across the full complement of Relay operating areas; industrial, logistics, commercial and engineering.
Managing director, Steven Street, said: "We are not just getting an individual who can operate as recruitment consultant, manager and salesperson, but someone who has proven experience of growing a highly successful business from nothing; someone who, having done that, can appreciate the pressures, priorities and cycles that our clients work to."
"This is vital for the future, as we need managers who can not only provide our broad range of services to clients and candidates, but who possess the entrepreneurial drive and commercial acumen to run their own businesses under the Relay brand. Louise has been successful at everything she has turned her hand to, which bodes well for this significant role."
Louise said: "I chose Relay as I was particularly impressed with the company's unique Career Coaching scheme, which is at odds with the short-term attitudes of agencies that ‘take their fee and disappear'."
At Relay, we see ourselves as the personal representative of each candidate, tracking them throughout their career and conducting regular reviews. These take stock of skills, qualifications and experience, as well as personal circumstances (are they planning to relocate, start a family, take a sabbatical?) and establish what guidance, training and development may be required. The objective is to place individuals in the roles that suit them best - and to best prepare them for those positions - so that both they and employers benefit most.
It is the first stage of our succession management plan, known as The Next Generation, which combines proven key Relay operators with ‘star players' transferred in. Together, they will form a highly experienced senior team to carry the company forward - with each overseeing all services within a geographic area and working towards equity awards.
A manufacturing and supply chain specialist, Louise's diverse background of staff deployment and personnel services includes a stint with the RAF and senior roles at Brook Street and Primetime, before founding Millennium Recruitment in Bradford, in 1999.The company quickly grew to support some of the UK's major distribution, logistics and warehousing operations, including Royal Mail. A prime acquisition target, Millennium was sold in 2003, with Louise relocating to Spain.
Yearning a return to recruitment and Yorkshire earlier this year, she identified Relay as the most go-ahead and professional operation in the region and talked to founding partners, Steven Street and Laurence Elliott. Her approach was timely as they wanted to move on from day-to-day implementation, to spend more time working with clients on brand protection and reputation management.
At Wakefield, she will assemble her own team of consultants across the full complement of Relay operating areas; industrial, logistics, commercial and engineering.
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Relay's Managing Director, Steven Street, pictured with Louise |
Managing director, Steven Street, said: "We are not just getting an individual who can operate as recruitment consultant, manager and salesperson, but someone who has proven experience of growing a highly successful business from nothing; someone who, having done that, can appreciate the pressures, priorities and cycles that our clients work to."
"This is vital for the future, as we need managers who can not only provide our broad range of services to clients and candidates, but who possess the entrepreneurial drive and commercial acumen to run their own businesses under the Relay brand. Louise has been successful at everything she has turned her hand to, which bodes well for this significant role."
Louise said: "I chose Relay as I was particularly impressed with the company's unique Career Coaching scheme, which is at odds with the short-term attitudes of agencies that ‘take their fee and disappear'."
At Relay, we see ourselves as the personal representative of each candidate, tracking them throughout their career and conducting regular reviews. These take stock of skills, qualifications and experience, as well as personal circumstances (are they planning to relocate, start a family, take a sabbatical?) and establish what guidance, training and development may be required. The objective is to place individuals in the roles that suit them best - and to best prepare them for those positions - so that both they and employers benefit most.
According to Louise Mottershaw, this is crucial. She added: "Despite the economic downturn there are companies who cannot place key staff. Often, high calibre workers are not prepared to make a leap from secure employment, while many who were once happy to take temporary contracts now prefer to be ‘locked in'.
"However, we retain long-term relationships with players that employers can tap into, to see them through the recession and are so intrinsically involved in their development that we know where and with whom they will offer best value. By forwarding the details of two or three people who are perfect for any given post, our clients are saved a huge amount of time sifting through dozens of résumés that are only a partial fit."