Andrew MacAskill

Fraser Dove International

Talent Consultancy and Executive Search for Life Science PE & VC firms and their portfolio companies.

Our business by numbers:

50 Life Science Executive Search specialists
4 offices across the US, Switzerland, and the UK.
20 established healthcare PE & VC Partnerships.
4 Industry teams in Medtech, Biotech, Pharma and CDMO/CRO
6 delivery teams in Board, C Suite, Clinical, Technical Operations, Business Services and Commercial.
40 International locations served - 50% US and 50% EMEA.
Global community of 150,000 contacts.
Business growth 100% in last two years.

Our mission is to enhance the life sciences through talent and my role at Fraser Dove International is  the CCO responsible for growth, product, value proposition and strategic customer partnerships.

Customer experience and agility are at the heart of everything we do and our goal is to be the most referred talent partner in the healthcare ecosystem.

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) | US and DACH

Executive Career Jump

If you have been made redundant or looking for job search coaching services then this is for you.

We act as your career accelerator.

This is achieved through using the latest insights to help executives understand what they want and importantly.....how to get it.

We provide career coaching, job search hacking and interview coaching through our award winning online courses and books.

I also host The Executive Career Jump Podcast which was launched in 2020 to provide more free career advice to those who need it.

🎙 Link for podcast here: https://lnkd.in/gy7kxSr

Our aim is to give executives the inside track in their careers and to modernise and disrupt the traditional and outdated outplacement offerings.

So how did this all come about?

During my career running executive search businesses I have been lucky enough to work with and place executives all over the world into new leadership positions.

It's an awesome feeling.

And you start to spot patterns and learn over time which types of candidates win.

Some of the insights were surprising so in 2018 we started sharing them.

Since then our tips have helped countless executives secure jobs in 15 different countries.

Every success story matters and here are some of this things we are proud of:

🚀 1000+ job search clients successfully placed.

🚀 Winner of 2021 NORA award for Best Employment Advice Website.

🚀 Achieved an average of 1m organic views on our online content month on month.

🚀 Part of LinkedIn Changemaker Campaign including numerous media, TV and event appearances to talk all things careers.

🚀 Became best selling Author of The Job Search Playbook

🚀 100+ LinkedIn Live broadcasts for jobseekers delivered and continuing every Thursday at 12.15pm.

🚀 60+ episodes recorded for the Executive Career Jump Podcast.

🚀 20+ corporate outplacement projects of 5-100 heads.

🚀 1000+ coaching, speaking and workshop sessions delivered.

Let’s get to work!

Founder | Digital Job Search and Career Coach | Speaker

The Job Search Playbook

We wanted to write The Job Search Playbook for leaders in transition in the modern job market....and it quickly became a bestseller and Amazon hot new release. 

Modern job searching is far from simple as the game has changed. 

Interviews have changed, networking has changed, and it is estimated that 85% of senior roles are never advertised and exist only in the “hidden market”. 

It is no wonder that many leaders on the move lose confidence, lose clarity and struggle to attract the type of role they desire.

The Job Search Playbook will change your perspective and help you create your own simple, clear go–to market plan so you can reach your peak during your job searching activities and gain an edge at every stage. Lets get to work!

Grab one on Amazon!

Book Author | Speaker

LinkedIn

Selected as the UK LinkedIn Changemaker for Careers and became part of the award winning TV advert, media campaign and influencer team.

During the 6 month contract we had numerous media appearances, hosted the LinkedIn Talent Awards and worked with LinkedIn to help promote the platform as an inclusive force for good.

Official LinkedIn Changemaker - Careers

Executives Online | Executive Recruitment & Interim Management

Executives Online are a collection of 85 experienced Executive Search professionals connected across 5 countries.  We have a shared mission: To Transform Executive Recruitment.

I was responsible for shaping our proposition and taking it to market. 

Executive-intro ® was born out of our belief that companies historically hire leaders based on skills but fire based on behaviours - we realised that executive recruitment had to be done a different way to get different results. 

I lead teams of talented UK based Executive Search and Interim Management professionals who were proven "go-to expert"s within their niches covering the following disciplines:

Finance
Actuarial
COO
MD
Procurement and Supply Chain
HR
Sales and Marketing
Risk and Compliance
Interim Management
Change and Transformation
Technology
Financial Services

Managing Director

Operational and P&L responsibility for the Southern UK EO Business.

Leading a talented group of experienced practice leaders recruiting executives across:

HR, Risk, Financial Services, Finance, C Suite, IT, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing and Interim Management.

All our practice leaders have over a decade of executive recruitment experience and access to an unrivalled suite of assessment and search tools.

Commercial Director

The Source Recruitment

Born out of The Faculty Management Consultants, The Source offers tailored procurement recruitment and supply chain recruitment solutions for leading organisations in the Asia Pacific region.

My role was to build the organisation from scratch into a leading procurement and supply chain industry search practice.

Key achievements included:

► Wrote and devised business plan, vision, sales strategy and sales presentation and took the Source concept to market delivering profitability.

► Won 9 ASX 100 PSL agreements for procurement recruitment within the first 18 months.

► Drove social media strategy resulting in a procurement talent blog with 1000’s of views, a Procurement Linked In Group with over 1200 members and a newsletter with 2500 subscribers.

► Won selection as 1 of only 5 CIPSA (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Australia) accredited procurement recruitment providers in Australia out of over 100 initial expressions of interest.

 ►Published two thought leadership papers: Bravo: A Study of female leadership in Procurement and Onboard: How to successfully navigate the first 100 days in procurement.

► Key note speaker at regional CIPSA event on “The future of procurement recruitment”

► Personally sold and delivered a number of retained executive assignments within sporting organisations, mining companies, and infrastructure and telecommunications industries with remuneration packages in excess of $500k +.

► Sold multi vacancy procurement and supply chain campaigns to ASX50 organisation delivering brand new 5-10 person departments within 10 weeks.

► Launched the Source expansion office in Sydney in January 2012.


Areas of specialism: Procurement Recruitment, Supply Chain, Executive Recruitment, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Interim Management, Procurement Search, CPO Search, EVP Marketing, Networking, Retention Strategies, Industry Advocacy.

Hudson

Winner of the leadership award.  Managing teams to deliver innovative recruitment solutions to clients in Supply Chain, Procurement and Retail disciplines within the UK, Switzerland and Australia.

Responsible for Procurement Recruitment across all industries managing a team of 11 specialist recruitment professionals covering public sector procurement, retail procurement, Interim procurement and executive recruitment.

Areas of specialism: Procurement Recruitment, Supply Chain, Executive Recruitment, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Interim Management, Procurement Search, CPO Search, EVP Marketing, Networking, Retention Strategies, Industry Advocacy.

Area Manager - Procurement Recruitment

Michael Page

Managing the Interim procurement recruitment team in London covering:

Executive Procurement Recruitment
Interim Procurement Recruitment
Procurement Category Managers
Financial Services Procurement

Areas of specialism: Procurement Recruitment, Supply Chain, Executive Recruitment, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Interim Management, Procurement Search, CPO Search, EVP Marketing, Networking, Retention Strategies, Industry Advocacy.

Manager - Procurement Recruitment

Matchtech

National Procurement Recruitment of temporary and Interim Supply Chain candidates into the private sector.

Consultant - Procurement and Supply Recruitment

LinkedIn Top Voice 2022 | CCO at Fraser Dove International on a Mission to Enhance Life Sciences Through Talent | Recruitment and Executive Search | Speaker | Bestselling Author |

Hi, I am Andrew the very proud CCO of the renowned Life Science Talent Consultancy, Fraser Dove International. 

I am a Father, Talent Obsessed Commercial Leader, Guinness lover, Speaker on Hiring, Personal Branding and Job Searching, Author, Positivity Dispenser and Official LinkedIn Top Voice for Careers.

At Fraser Dove International we imagine a world whereby talent is an enabler, not a barrier to Life Science projects globally.

It's not a straightforward mission as the global hiring market is amidst the most profound talent crunch we have experienced. 

Typically our team of 50 executive search and talent experts help PE and VC backed Life Sciences businesses with one of the following challenges:

- Some are grappling with how to attract, assess and onboard the impact players they need in the boardroom to grow their businesses.

- Others are struggling to stand out as a destination employer within their most business critical talent markets. 

- And a few feel frustrated that they are unable to build engaged executive talent pipelines for their upcoming acquisitions, DEI initiatives, and expansion markets.

So at FDI we have created a different approach.

Because the work you do is to important to fail!

Intrigued?

Please feel free to connect or reach out for an exploratory conversation about your executive talent requirements.

Trees for Cities

Creating, managing, and optimising new and existing digital marketing campaigns which reach, engage and convert target audiences. 

Channels include paid search (including Google Ads Grant), paid social media (Meta, X, TikTok and LinkedIn), display advertising and new channels.

Delivering digital fundraising activity, against annual plan. 

Running acquisition campaigns to digital stewardship, improving digital user journeys. 

Managing dedicated paid advertising budget, tracking and optimising activity and reporting on success,  delivering a healthy ROI.

Senior Digital Marketing Coordinator

The Education and Training Foundation

• supporting the analysis and data analytics of key user journeys on the main Content Management System (CMS) website domain, sub domains and Learning Management System (LMS) using Google Analytics (GA4), Ahrefs and Microsoft Clarity 
• supporting the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the digital transformation programme in the developing and launching of the inclusive, web accessible and user-centred products and services
• part of the semi autonomous agile Digital Team, who work to understand customer needs, identify pain points and potential opportunities continuously improving the digital user experience (UX) using Scrum and Agile principles
• supporting the ongoing maintenance of technical SEO on the CMS and LMS platforms using Agile principles
• supporting the design and implementation of a digital experience and SEO operational plan aligning with both the data governance and new business strategy
• supporting enhancements to user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) including UX research, journey mapping and helping to implement improvements to UX/UI design, web accessibility, content, copy and navigation alongside the Digital Experience Lead
• supporting the Digital Experience Lead in providing an excellent digital user experience (UX) across the organisation using evidence, insights, analytics and analysis.

Skills: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) · Digital Engagement · User Experience (UX) · UX writing · Digital Product Development · Web Analytics · Critical Thinking  · Data Analysis  · Digital Transformation 

Top Contributions and Achievements:
• Training the Marketing and Communications Team on how to use Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
• Reducing the occurrences of 404 Page Not Found system failures and Redirect Chains through Technical SEO audits to near zero levels.

Digital Officer (Analytics and SEO)

Work Avenue

Work Avenue Generating Employment
A 23 person social enterprise providing advice and guidance to entrepreneurs to enable them to fulfil their visions and goals utilising digital skills of Graphic Design, Web Design, Sales, IT and Digital Marketing freelancers. 
Content Marketer (on a freelance basis)
Led Marketing Strategy for Video Awareness Campaign through Email Marketing Campaign to 90 digital freelancers, selecting 10 freelancers representing a cross section of the sample developing and delivering video testimonial training and editing Video Testimonials into Marketing Campaign Videos.  

Top Contributions and Achievements: 
•	Provided SEO and drove results through video testimonial content driving £50,000 of pipeline revenue. 
•	Designed Facebook for Business Campaign driving £20,000 of pipeline revenue.

Content Marketer (on a freelance basis)

Limmud

Limmud
A 5 person educational charity focused on education, learning, inclusion and social action culminating in a 5 day Festival event in Birmingham at the end of December each year. 
Marketing and Communications Volunteer
Led onsite user generated content marketing interviewing presenters and participants about their experiences and filmed videos demonstrating participants embodying Limmud’s brand values of education and inclusion. Managed, segmented and reported on tracked keywords through Google Analytics and KeySearch. 

Top Contributions and Achievements: 
•	Produced Marketing Strategy for Demand Generation and Lead Generation, developing and executing content strategies focused on driving sales revenue for £600 per person events registrations. 
•	Designed copy for Twitter organic campaign focused on Limmud’s 40 year old Brand Trust and Loyalty.  
•	Identified target keywords using KeySearch SEO Tools focused on using most relevant Keywords and terms for Google Ads Campaign, creating and optimising top-notch content.
•	Focused on designing Young Professionals demographic Paid Search Google Ads campaign identifying trends on Google Analytics, improving search engine rankings and driving traffic. 
•	Provided Full Brand Audit on Marketing Strategies and tactics for 2022 and 2023 year long campaign.

Marketing and Communications Volunteer

Chalkline

Chalkline
A 25 person IT Managed Services and Cyber Security Provider Start Up approaching Scale Up expansion offering Cloud Based Microsoft Gold Standard services including SharePoint, Teams and full suite Cyber Security services. 

Digital Marketing Assistant (Sole and first Internal Marketing employee)
Led Marketing Strategy, Implementation, Reporting and Analytics conducting keyword research and identifying target keywords to incorporate into content supporting the Managing Director, Technical Director and Sales Manager to deliver key growth project HubSpot Cyber Security Bundle launch for 30 Cyber Security Products using keyword tracking and A/B and SEO template testing.  
Top Contributions and Achievements:
•	Developed Marketing strategy, implemented Marketing plan, developing 30 Cyber Security products Blog articles repurposed for Social Media Channels Twitter and LinkedIn developing £1M+ of pipeline revenue from sectors including Legal, Financial Services, Property Management and Creative Industries. 
•	Drove Sales Enablement Lead Generation project: 6,000 Marketing Qualified Leads 60 companies. 
•	Developed and designed 15 How To Explainer Videos for SharePoint, increasing pipeline revenue for Sales Team and Project Team by 10% by identifying target keywords and developing strategies.

Digital Marketing Assistant (Sole and first Internal Marketing employee)

Axco Insurance Information

Axco, Wilmington Group Plc
A 634 person Global Publishing Company that provides Insurance Market Intelligence and analysis through a bespoke Software as a Service (SaaS) platform build on top of a dynamic data lake data infrastructure, providing instant up to date information and analysis to every major Global Financial Institution and Insurance Company.
Global Information Analyst
Skilled writer provided Market Intelligence for 69 reports covering EMEA, Asia, North America and LATAM regions, keyword research, keyword clustering, copywriting and data analysis skills, generated data insights, creating and optimising high-quality, engaging SEO-optimised and SEO-friendly content translating performance into clear, actionable insights on-page SEO enabling sales revenue and clear narrative for senior business leaders. 


 Top Contributions and Achievements: 
•	Produced Keyword and SEO searches for SEO trends in the International Employee Benefits sector generating Market Intelligence worth £10M+ in revenue. 
•	Identified opportunities for Demand Generation Thought Leadership articles increasing engagement.

Global Information Analyst

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers
A 681 person Professional Engineering Trade Association that provides networking, professional qualifications and event services to professionally qualified engineers and people interested in professional development.
Membership Executive Assistant (managing Worldwide, North West England and Northern Ireland Interviews) 
Developed marketing strategy, implementation and content for EMEA, Asia, LATAM and North America Interview Centres, North West of England and Northern Ireland Interview Centres developing prospective Members and Fellow and pipelining Incorporated Engineers through to Chartered Engineer status.
Top Contributions and Achievements:  
•	Reduced costs for Northern Ireland Regional Interview Centres from £130 per interview centre to Zero.
•	Increased North West of England Interview Centres capacity by 50% per month.

Membership Executive Assistant (managing Worldwide and selective UK Interview Centres)

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

Institution of Civil Engineers 
A 1,028 person Professional Engineering Trade Association that provides networking, professional qualifications and event services to professionally qualified engineers and people interested in professional development.
Membership Executive (managing Worldwide and UK Initial Professional Development and CPD)
Led Worldwide and UK Initial Professional Development activities including Graduate Training Schemes, Experienced Engineers Career Appraisals and CPD Audit. 
Top Contributions and Achievements: 
•	Led Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Audit including Email Marketing Campaign with a 68% participation engagement rate in the CPD Audit.
•	Coordinated Initial Professional Development Online Upgrade Project with 25% uplift in applications. 
•	Developed and implemented the Membership Upgrade Pipelining Project increasing uplift in Incorporated Engineers qualifying as Chartered Engineers by 15%.
•	Produced Web Design Copywriting for the Digital Transformation Project increasing Demand Generation for Membership applications by 15%.

Membership Executive (managing Worldwide and UK Initial Professional Development and CPD)

HSBC

HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Ltd (acquired by JLT Benefit Solutions in 2009)
Top Contributions and Achievements:  
•	Project leadership on key reforms to departmental operations at annual departmental conference.
•	Winner of Employee of the Month Award for efficiency.

Group Risk Administrator 

With experience in SEO, analytics, and content marketing, I am passionate about telling stories with data and delivering high-quality user experiences (UX). As a Digital Officer at The Education and Training Foundation (ETF), I provide SEO and analytics services to support the UK's further education and training sector.

I have experience using CMS, LMS, and CRM systems such as Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Ahrefs, Microsoft Clarity, Google Search Console, HubSpot, and Salesforce to conduct keyword research, optimising web content, monitoring website performance, and generating actionable insights. 

I also have experience creating and executing content strategies that drive traffic, engagement, and conversions, optimising video testimonials, email marketing, and social media platforms. 

I currently enjoy collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to align SEO and analytics goals with the ETF's vision and values.

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