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The Proven Project Solution The An accountable extension of your Proven business that is proven to: Project Solution.

You are growing. You are expanding your technological or change capabilities. You’re embarking on a new project and need to build a high performing team or find a senior hire to deliver your strategy.

This is what UA Projects is designed for. It is a partnership approach that takes ownership of hard to find talent, delivering individual roles and scalable IT teams as one simple package.

From start ups to large scale enterprises, it has been proven successful by over 500 of our clients. A Proven Process.

UA Projects is a specialised programme that takes ownership of your niche talent needs.

At the heart of the process is a Director level project leader. They draw on their experience and expertise to build a talent strategy that’s bespoke to your business.

They will be accountable for outcomes, take ownership of the entire project and deliver talent that solves your biggest challenges.

Peter Donlon CTO Over 160 5 Star Google Reviews

Reckitt Benckiser take advantage of UA Projects to support a transformation programme of their IS function

The Benckiser (RB) are a global FMCG business renowned for producing a number of health, hygiene and home products including , , , Nurofen, Vanish, , Client and amongst others.

These products are sold in over 200 locations worldwide. RB are dedicated to investing heavily in research and development to find new ways for people to look after themselves, their families and homes. With a Central Headquarters in Slough, RB truly are a global business with over 37,000 staff across 60 locations and a turnover of over £10 billion. UA Projects has led over 500 businesses through technological change, delivering an accountable talent solution every single time. The Over a period of time RB strategically acquired a number of businesses globally, resulting in an extremely fragmented IS function. The CIO was tasked with driving innovation and transforming Brief IS into one shared service to support the Global business. This partnership approach is why 86% of our growth has come from referrals. But don’t take our word for it, Uniting Ambition were retained by RB’s IS Director to initially support the creation of an Enterprise Architecture function, allowing the rationalisation of its outsource partners to one key find out what clients think in our case studies. supplier.

Due to the size and scale of RB, Uniting Ambition were presented with a number of challenges around culture, integration of existing business units and availability of talent.

The Uniting Ambition initially worked closely with the IS Director and HR Business Partner to help build a highly influential Enterprise Architecture function. Following the success of this Solution partnership, we delivered a number of key interim and permanent roles within RB. This has included the placements of:

• IS Supply Chain Directors • Project Managers • IS R&D Directors • Business Analysts • IS Technical Services Directors • Service Delivery Managers • Programme Managers • Global Licensing Managers • Architects • PMO Managers

RB’s strategic programmes are still in flight and we continue to support their talent strategy. I used Uniting Ambition for turning

UA Projects helps NEXT plc to build a scalable IT transformation around a specialist Oracle Fusion Cloud solution to support retail growth Programme, which had extremely challenging timescales.

I required a large amount of highly specialist The NEXT is a UK based retailer offering exciting, beautifully designed, excellent quality fashion and contractors to quickly help meet our objectives. accessories for men, women and children together with a full range of homewares. Client Uniting Ambition clearly understood our NEXT distributes through three main channels. NEXT Retail, a chain of more than 500 stores in the UK and Eire NEXT Directory, a home shopping catalogue and website with almost 4 million resourcing requirements and quickly responded active customers & international websites serving around 70 countries NEXT International, with almost 200 mainly franchised stores around the world. with a high caliber of potential candidates.

The NEXT came to Uniting Ambition with a business critical project, it needed a team of people to work on its in-store Technology Refresh Project; a £11million programme to upgrade both the The candidates added considerable value and Brief software and hardware of every single in-store POS system across the whole of the NEXT estate. I would definitely use the candidates on future As NEXT were changing its project delivery method from Waterfall / Prince 2 to an AGILE programmes. I would highly recommend Uniting approach, Uniting Ambition was tasked with finding a new team of experienced IT contract, and permanent talent to develop, install and configure the new systems. The roles included: Ambition as a preferred recruitment agency. • 3 x Lead/Scrum Master • 3 x Business Analysts • 30 x Developers (C#. .net) • 7 x Build Manager • 4 x Architect/ Designers • 7 x Database Administrator • 7 x Testers • 3 x UX Designers They provided quick response, understood our requirements, had a deep network of suitable

The Uniting Ambition provided a fully managed service to NEXT, and as such was responsible for and available candidates and also provided researching and sourcing the right candidates, undertaking all assessments in accordance with a Solution strict test framework, conducting telephone and face to face interviews, supporting NEXT with great talent insight which really helped us inductions as well as carrying out all regulatory checks. benchmarking day rates and salaries. The entire recruitment project, from initial scope to the start date of the final candidate, was delivered in 3 months. The partnership has been a huge success and Uniting Ambition has been instrumental in helping NEXT reach its next stage of growth. Kevin McGinley Programme Director

Uniting Ambition has continued to provide regular consultation and support, managing contract employees and further resource demands. The Proven Project Solution Proven Success Stories

A Consultative Approach Unique Talent Pools “By taking the time to understand our businesses’ “UA had a deep network of tech talent and provided culture, they find the right people to suit our insights that helped us benchmark day rates and businesses ambitions. ” salaries. They’re now our first choice talent partner.”

Kevin McGinley Programme Director

Delivering Niche Talent Unrivalled Market Insight “I would highly recommend Uniting Ambition and “They helped us grow by giving us key talent insight their UA Projects solution to help deliver the hard into the North West, helping support our decision to to find, niche technology talent that you need.” open a tech hub in a Manchester.”

Nathan Rourke Test Manager Peter Donlon CTO

Exceeding Expectations Understanding Your Business “I recommend UA to any prospective organisation as “They deliver due to their almost supernatural a professional and consistent recruiting partner who understanding of what our team (and wider exceed their customers’ expectations.” business needs). UA do things differently.”

Louisa Tattersall Programme Manager Daniel Pass CTO

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