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Adonye Orumbie

Experienced Consultant / Negotiator / International Recruiter

Recruitment / Resource Allocation
Consulting
Management
HCM
SaaS / ERP / CRM
Adonye Orumbie
Driving License
London United Kingdom
Professional Status
Consultant
Available
About Me
PERSONAL SUMMARY
A summary of my skills can be described as:
14 Years+ Recruitment/Sales/Negotiation experience.

12 years IT Recruitment experience.

2 years Pharmaceutical experience.

Knowledgeable, confident and quick minded

New business developer.

Business relationship maintenance and improvement.

Strong knowledge and working experience of EU countries.


Why you should hire me?
I have been an asset to every company that I have worked for and i have a great sense of belief in my ability to play a vital role in bringing any project to its natural and successful completion.


PROFILE
A confident, energetic and ambitious individual with a history of making major positive contributions to projects and working with and supporting teams to produce significant results.

A competitive, resourceful and flexible individual I strive to over achieve when set goals. I am an effective and persuasive communicator at all levels (Heads of Departments, Programme Directors, Client senior managers, Workstream managers and Team members), with a good sense of humour with a proven ability to motivate and inspire my peers.

Not a stranger to hard work, I am totally dependable, efficient and committed individual whose objective is to forge a successful and long standing career.

Please refer to this résumé to provide you with further details of my potential in consideration for future collaboration.


Yours sincerely;

Adonye Orumbie

Currently Available

Currently Available
Since December 2013
Full-time
London
United Kingdom
  • Completing personal projects including finishing my book “Think – Thought Of The Day”, organising a 500+ ticket Charity Gala to build schools in Africa, and embarking on PRINCE2 qualification.
  • Responsible for setting up and growing the SaaS/ERP/CRM team; in particular Workday HCM market.
  • Placement of high level PMO, SaaS, ERP candidates.
  • Sourcing candidates using methods such as Boolean searches, networking, headhunting, mining and push/pull activities to locate passive candidates.
  • Meeting set sales targets and RFP deadlines.
  • High level contract negotiation.
  • Worked with existing managers, completing and revising recruitment plans.
  • Analysing and reporting market trends.
  • Resolving resource allocation issues for multi-national clients.
  • Supporting team members and management on a number of sales related initiatives
  • Budget planning, preparation of costings and related documentation.
  • Monitoring the overall Program schedule.
  • Generating, updating and improving project strategies and methodologies.
  • Initiating the tracking process for setting up new starters.
  • Ensured that purchase orders were received, ensured suppliers are set up on the bespoke system if not set up, liaising with supplier and contractors.
  • Dealt with all Finance queries including raising PO’s, unpaid invoices and maintained an up to date finance system in the office.
  • Working against project timescales whilst tracking key milestones and progress plans.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and project risks.
  • Chasing timesheet approval from Programme/Project Managers and working with the Finance Team to resolve any issues.
  • Knowledge of international recruitment laws and regulations especially in the DACH and Benelux regions.
  • Team management and junior consultant mentor.
  • Supporting clients in global HR Transformation projects.
  • Ensuring that quality is consistent throughout the process.
  • Involved in the recruiting and hiring internal staff for the Head office.

Career break

Career break
April 2011 to June 2012
London
United Kingdom
  • Decided to take a year out of the industry to spend time doing Father duties with my young family (at the time, 3 children under the age of 6).
  • Brought on board as a Partner in the ERP business to assist in expanding the existing PeopleSoft team and to increase the company’s European presence across the EMEA region.
  • Concentration on the provision of ERP resources (PeopleSoft, SAP etc) in the EMEA region and beyond.
  • Recruiting and hiring internal staff for London office.
  • Working with programme/project managers in the delivery of programmes by supporting their delivery to cost, time and quality and by ensuring that they are managed in a controlled manner.
  • Tendering and responding to RFP’s from multi-national companies.
  • Maintaining project planning throughout the process.
  • Providing the business owners meaningful and realistic plans in MS Office to enable them to monitor progress against tasks.
  • Opening revenue streams with new clients in a challenging market.
  • Reacting to changes in European labour laws.
  • Analysis, evaluation and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPI).
  • Presenting to clients at programme Management/Board level.
  • Championing the Intuition IT brand across EMEA.
  • Ensuring that plans are accurate and operating standards are adhered to.
  • Headhunted into Q4 as an Associate Director responsible for heading up all technical and functional ERP/CRM solutions across the EMEA region in addition to assisting in the placement of Senior Sales permanent staff across clients in the UK and EMEA regions, especially the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) regions.
  • Tasked to establish and run a Contract business for a predominantly Permanent placement business.
  • Utilised negotiations skills to bring in new business.
  • Organised staff and provided Sales training on an ad hoc basis.

Sales Manager

Force 2000 Ltd UK (Part of Sennac)
November 2007 to January 2009
Full-time
London
United Kingdom
  • Headhunted with the remit to set up, open and run the London office to support the Dutch arm of the Contract and Permanent IT ERP/CRM Recruitment business.
  • Brought in new clients and setting up Preferred Supplier agreements with European clients.
  • Full office running responsibilities on a day to day basis.
  • Responsible for hiring new consultants and other support staff.
  • Setting up team meetings; sending out meeting requests, prepared agenda and minute project meetings.
  • Working, forming relationships and visiting/meeting clients in the UK, Switzerland, France, The Netherlands and Germany.
  • Contract recruitment in the areas of ERP/CRM predominantly PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel and Selligent.
  • Developing new business opportunities and bringing new requirements and distributing them to fellow consultants.
  • Senior member of the Pharmaceutical Data Management Team (Clinical & Biometrics).
  • Part of team of 4 which produced profit of £850K in a period of 12 months.
  • Placed 30 contractors in total (value £240K) at all the major Pharmaceutical clients in the UK.
  • Consistent revenue turnover and contractor maintenance and care.
  • Identifying and successfully headhunting potential good candidates.
  • Setting up Preferred Supplier status with a number of world renowned Pharmaceutical companies.
  • Clients included GSK, Roche, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis, MSD, Pfizer, IPSEN, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Cancer Research, Quintiles, Serono and Novartis

Various Roles

Various Roles
January 1993 to August 2000
Full-time
London
United Kingdom
  • Team building – Leadership. Excellent planning and organising skills.
  • Seasoned consulting and negotiation skills. Ability to achieve buy-in from clients and colleagues alike.
  • IT Recruitment and Resource allocation.
  • Over a decade thriving in highly pressurised environments where the focus is on delivery and achieving deadlines and meeting the requirements/targets set by my managers.
  • Always seeking new responsibilities and using my initiative to meet and resolve challenges.
  • High integrity and honesty; ethical and socially aware with a “Half Full” mentality.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure and quickly understand and interpret complex information.
  • Fast learner, proactive thinker, adaptable and committed.
  • Professional attitude and meticulous attention to detail, effective minute taker.
  • Excellent customer service skills and possess extensive research capabilities.
  • Good approach/understanding to the delivery and tracking of project benefits.
  • Good understanding of the German language, reading and writing (not fluent).
  • Basic understanding of the written and spoken Dutch language.
  • Good knowledge of Operating Systems such as Windows, XP, & Vista.
  • Confident in using Microsoft programmes (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
  • Learning MS Project.

A Levels: Art & Design (Fine Art), German. AS Level: Mathematics

Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Sixth Form

September 1990 to June 1992

A Levels: Economics, German & Sociology

Croydon College

September 1992 to June 1994
A Levels: Economics, German & Sociology.

BSc Combined Honours – Management Studies & Product Design

South Bank University

September 1994 to May 1997
BSc Combined Honours – Management Studies & Product Design
  • Active member in the Local and Church community and served as a Council member.
  • Youth Mentor and counsellor.
  • Supervising Fund raising events and concerts.
  • Heavily involved in the http://www.into-africa.org/ charity, tasked with organising large scale fundraising events with the aim of building schools and multi-purpose facilities in Ghana.
  • Event Organisation and Management – From agenda development to issuing communications and presentation preparation. I have contacted, discussed objectives and booked guest speakers plus, I have successfully conducted negotiations with venue service providers.