Vantage Consulting

As the Managing Director of Vantage Consulting, I lead a dynamic team in one of the world's premier multi-brand recruitment specialists. Our focus is on delivering top-tier talent in niche, growth, and scarce resource STEM markets, catering to a global client base at mid to executive levels.

At Vantage Consulting, we are more than a recruitment agency; we are trusted partners to some of the world's leading brands and the most exciting startups. Our mission is to provide comprehensive talent solutions that empower businesses to achieve their full potential. By bridging the gap between the digital and industrial revolutions, we have cultivated the most integrated business and candidate network globally.

Our approach is centered on building enduring relationships, discovering innovative ways of working, and surpassing expectations to deliver unmatched customer excellence. With an impressive portfolio of clients across the UK, Europe, and the US, we don't simply fill positions – we craft careers and foster business growth by aligning the right talent with the right opportunities.

Join us in revolutionizing the recruitment landscape and driving forward the next wave of industry transformation.

Managing Director

PSR Group

As Group COO, my primary function is to promote company culture, drive the values and vision of the business whilst supporting the business leaders and CEO.

Group Portfolio; Novello Technologies, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare, PSR Solutions and the latest addition, PCN. 

Duties include;

• Design and implement business strategies, plans and procedures
• Assist CEO in delivering the Vision 2.0
• Support Hiring 
• Set comprehensive goals for performance and growth
• Establish policies that promote company culture and vision (Environmental, social, and corporate governance strategy.)
• Oversee daily operations of the company and the work of executives (IT, Marketing, Sales, Finance etc.)
• Lead employees to encourage maximum performance and dedication
• Evaluate performance by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics
• Write and submit reports to the CEO in all matters of importance
• Participate in expansion activities (investments, acquisitions, corporate alliances etc.)
• Oversee Executive Committee 
• Manage relationships with partners/vendors

Chief Operating Officer

PSR Solutions

My role at PSR covers all businesses within the Group. Novello, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare and the core UK construction business, PSR Solutions. 

Working alongside the Managing Director, Business & Growth Strategy is at the forefront of my responsibility at PSR. The areas below form my day to day duties;

•	Overall responsibility for clients 
•	Brand, Marketing & Social Media
•	Maintain the PSR Culture throughout the group.
•	Partnerships
•	Growth into new sectors and geographical locations 
•	Business Acquisition   
•	Client Strategy & Candidate Generation Strategy
•	Researching Innovation to create efficiencies 
•	Staff Acquisition

Group Development Director

My role as Client Relationship Director at PSR is wide-ranging, and diversify allowing me to focus on the strategic development of all brands in the PSR Group.

Overall responsibility for;
Marketing of PSR Solutions, Contract Solutions, Trades, and International. 
Social Media Planning 
Ensuring high standards to PSR preferred supplier status clients.
Establishing new operational geographical areas.
Partnerships 
Candidate Generation and Client Strategies
Also supporting staff in London, Birmingham, Stafford, and Sheffield with regular office visits.

The remaining time is focused on the direct growth and net profitability of PSR Group. Working alongside the Managing Director looking wide and far for opportunities to develop the PSR Group.

Client Relationship Director

I have been working within the Infrastructure division at PSR since 2012, developing a talented pool of candidates from both a commercial and operational background.

Since March 2014 I also head up the Civils and Infrastructure team, which services clients across the whole of the UK.  The team has grown and developed an in-depth industry knowledge and applies a unique professional approach to client relationships.  We source talent for various projects from residential and commercial groundworks, industrial structures and buildings, rail and electrification schemes through to general civil engineering, Flood alleviation and a range of utilities projects.

I supply candidates into a number of market leading Construction clients and am their primary point of contact for their Civil and Infrastructure recruitment. I have extensive industry knowledge and am able to match skill sets to the right roles through providing a true consultancy service based on research, competitor analysis and industry and project specific knowledge.  I place great emphasis on excellent communication, acting with honesty and managing relationships through listening and understanding client and candidate requirements.

Team Leader - Civil Engineering

My role at PSR Group covers all businesses within the Group. Novello Technologies, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare, PSR Solutions and the latest addition to the portfolio, PCN. 

Working alongside the Managing Director, Business & Growth Strategy is at the forefront of my responsibility at PSR. The areas below form my day to day duties;

• Overall responsibility for clients 
• Brand, Marketing & Social Media
• Maintain the PSR Culture throughout the group.
• Partnerships
• Growth into new sectors and geographical locations 
• Business Acquisition 
• Client Strategy & Candidate Generation Strategy
• Researching Innovation to create efficiencies 
• Staff Acquisition

Development Director 

Cosmedic Beauty

Cosmedic Beauty offer Facial Aesthetics & Beauty services.

Led by experienced Nurse, Rachael Berks. Rachael has 15 years experience working in healthcare services and is an independent nurse prescriber.

​Trained by a Harley Street award winning aesthetic surgeon, Rachael is qualified in Botox® and Dermal Filler treatments.

​At Cosmedic Beauty, our aim is to deliver 100% customer satisfaction by providing high-quality professional services.

Co-Owner

GameChanger Performance

Co-Founded GCP with my business partner Jake Keeling with the aim of making performance specialists accessible to all athletes from grassroots to elite programs.

GCP are one of UK’s leading sports performance company’s. Based at the National Football Centre, St George’s Park, GCP are partners to the FA and PFA. Our aim is to bring elite-level sports performance to a wider audience in the UK.

The team at GCP have been delivering to a diverse range of customers including schools, colleges, universities, teams, athletes and businesses.

Co-Founder

The Stone Group

My position as the supply chain client director is to manage existing business relationships whilst targeting strategic accounts that could grow the business without impacting on current partnership agreements.  The business division was created in 2010 and has quickly become an established sales market at Stone group delivering stable revenue streams in excess of £6 million. 

I also have commitments to manage the largest account in the business a charity supplying 6500 devices per year, contract worth £9 Million.  

Stone Group’s recycled and refurbished product is also managed by my team with projects to help bridge the digital divide the main revenue stream.

Supply Chain Client Director

During a 2 year period as Stone Group special projects sales manager I was directly involved in government initiatives such Computers for Pupils, Home Access for Targeted user Groups and Home Access.  My role involved working with Local Authorities to scope, promote, and deliver large scale projects. During this period I completed projects totalling circa 18K notebooks. Leeds City Council’s Computers for Pupils scheme was the 2 nd largest in the county, 7.5K mobile devices with connectivity were delivered to children.

Special Projects Vertical Manager - Education

During my time as an account manager at Stone I developed my skills as an internal telephone executive before moving to a external role within the schools and  local authority vertical market. I was also utilised in Higher Education and Further Education towards the end of this role working on the National framework for contracts for both Notebooks and Desktop Computers.

Sales Account Manager

Aston Villa Football Club

Professional Footballer

With over 25 years of experience in sales and leadership, I bring a wealth of expertise to my role as Managing Director at Vantage Consulting. My career has been dedicated to driving business growth, leading organisational transformation, and fostering high-performance teams.

Previously, as Chief Operating Officer of PSR Group, I supported the CEO in realising Vision 2.0 and managed daily operations. Key achievements included expanding the team from 20 to over 200, establishing 12 offices across 3 countries, completing 2 strategic acquisitions, and launching a technology start-up. I also led the company to attain the Investor in People Platinum award.

I am committed to continual self-improvement and am currently pursuing postgraduate studies in global football business management. My leadership philosophy is based on maximising potential and treating everyone with respect and courtesy.

David Berks

Advania UK

Working in the Content Team, my key focus is in the creative field leading Graphic Design, Photography, and Videography.

Creative Marketing Executive

SYK Recruitment

Following my move within the PSR Group into solely managing the marketing for SYK Recruitment, I have lead all marketing initiatives including campaigns, graphic design, social media management, analytics & reporting, marketing strategy & planning, email marketing, photography, videography and video editing. 

Within this role I also completed a full rebrand covering research, planning, designing and presenting to create a fresh brand that reflects the business' culture and core values. I led the creation of all content and assets which I have executed to tight deadlines with great feedback from Directors and Stakeholders.

Notable Achievements:

Surpassed an average monthly impression target on LinkedIn of 15,000, doubling it from 8,000 to 16,000 - completely organically.

Personally responsible for market/competitor research which resulted in realigning the delivery of our social media to organically grow follower counts across SYK's social channels during my time there. Results as follows:

Facebook: +65.4%
LinkedIn: +120.8%
Instagram: +42%

Performed industry & audience based optimisation to make adjustments to our monthly candidate email newsletter - doubling the click rate from 1.5% to 3%.

Senior Marketing Executive

Handling all aspects of marketing including email newsletter creation, social media management, photography/videography, camapign plans & execution, annual & monthly marketing plans, initiatives and reports, and graphic video content.

Marketing Executive

PSR GROUP

From the beginning of my role within the PSR Group, I have lead and created all graphic design content including for social media, websites, internal/external documentation and print work for all four businesses.

Following my move into solely managing the marketing for SYK Recruitment, I have lead all marketing initiatives including campaigns, graphic design, social media management, analytics & reporting, marketing strategy & planning, email marketing, photography, videography and video editing. 

Within this role I also completed a full rebrand covering research, planning, designing and presenting to create a fresh brand that reflects the business' culture and core values. I led the creation of all content and assets which I have executed to tight deadlines with great feedback from Directors and Stakeholders.

Notable Achievements:

Surpassed an average monthly impression target on LinkedIn of 15,000, doubling it from 8,000 to 16,000 - completely organically.

Personally responsible for market/competitor research which resulted in realigning the delivery of our social media to organically grow follower counts across SYK's social channels during my time there. Results as follows:

Facebook: +65.4%
LinkedIn: +120.8%
Instagram: +42%

Performed industry & audience based optimisation to make adjustments to our monthly candidate email newsletter - doubling the click rate from 1.5% to 3%.

Performance Through People

Responsibilities within this 360 marketing role included idea & campaign generation, graphic design, creative copywriting, social media monitoring & posting, marketing strategy & proposals, and videography & video editing.

Notable Achievements:

Doubled the company’s Facebook page outreach.

Created some of the company’s most important public documents including their 2022 Prospectus.

Sales & Marketing Coordinator

Bethany Wale Photography

Specialising in Product, Portrait, Commercial, Wedding, and Children & Family photography & videography.

Self-managed brand - including designing, creating and maintaining my website, business and social media profiles with top ranked SEO. 

Created PPC Facebook advertisements, monitored engagement, and tracked website and social media analytics.

I always had a strong focus on my clients, and prided myself on maintaining great customer relationships - many of whom would return as repeat customers.

Freelance Photographer

Unknown Marketing

Responsibilities included marketing strategy, campaigns, graphic design, copywriting, website design & management, branding, social media management, proposal meetings, and photography.

Marketing account manager for 15+ clients in a range of industries, creating tailored content for each business with a mix of B2B and B2C, promoting both products and services.

Marketing Manager

Stonelin Communications Limited

Responsibilities included social media management, content creation, market research, website creation, copywriting, SEO, blogging, email marketing, coordination of e-commerce product listings, videography, and video editing for three businesses.

Increased sales of products through storefront SEO, and product marketing to high-street retailers.

Sales & Marketing Manager

First Choice Group 'At the heart of the catering equipment service.'

Responsible for the complete 360  profiling of the largest stock of
catering spares in the UK, covering over 20,000 parts to date, using an
advanced photographic rig & lighting system. Alongside capturing
brand new stock, I also updated and re-touched existing images
where necessary. I strived to help establish an exceptional quality
catalogue of commercial products.

Additional responsibilities have included company portrait, interior,
corporate event & commercial photography, with work having been
featured on the front-cover of Catering Insight magazine.

Product Photographer / Data Administrator

Somebody with a huuuuge passion for marketing & creativity! Falling hard for the freedom & ability to convey brand messaging through so many different initiatives.

Determined, and highly adaptable; my goal is to inject this creativity and a unique flair into all of my work. As a driven, self-taught marketer & graphic designer, I have worked with companies big and small, well-established and brand new, and have successfully launched and advertised a range of products and services within them - including for my own photography business.

Lover of plants, books, Lego and cooking. 
A very colourful human with a fun and adventurous personality. 
Most notable achievements in my personal life so far have been completing a skydive raising money for The Mental Health Foundation, buying my first house, and adopting my crazy little cat, Jasper!

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