Michael Williams

Bank ABC

Head of Talent 

BNY Mellon

EMEA Chief Administrative Officer, Technology Services Chief of Staff, Senior Vice President

EMEA Technology Workforce Transformation Lead, Chief of Staff - Poland & CEE, Associate Director

Recruitment Team Leader, Associate Director

HSBC

Senior Recruiter, UK&CI and Zurich

Various Specialist Recruitment Firms

Senior Recruiter (UK & Europe)

Talent Acquisition Lead ✦ RL100 Member ✦ Views are my own

A results-driven HR and Talent Acquisition professional with International experience. I specialise in aligning people strategies with business goals to fuel growth and performance. With extensive experience in global banking, financial services, and technology, I have a deep understanding of the complexities of talent management, workforce planning, and regulatory compliance within the financial sector.

✔ End-to-End Recruitment Expertise: Successfully hired top talent across Front Office, Middle Office, and Corporate Functions within banking, managing searches at all levels up to Managing Director (MD).

✔ Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

✔ HR Transformation & Change Management

✔ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) 

✔ Leadership Coaching & Performance Management

✔ HR Analytics & Data-Driven Insights 

✔ Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management

I am passionate about building future-ready workforces, driving innovation in talent acquisition and HR strategy, and fostering environments where people and businesses thrive.

Head of Talent

Recruitment Lead responsible for all lines of business hiring from entry to Board level, covering Corporate Functions through to the FrontI office. 

2021 Achievements:
→ Recruitment Framework & Governance Implementation 
→ IR35 Lead (Successful HMRC Audit)
→ Reduced time to hire to 41 days

2022 Achievements:
→ ATS Implementation 
→ Talent Management Framework Design
→ Gender Diversity recruitment policy implementation 

2023 Achievements (YTD):
→ Direct recruitment model implementation 
→ Direct Recruitment (91% YTD)
→ Internal Mobility (63% increase YTD)
→ Branding

Key Placements:
→ European Chief Risk Officer, London
→ Chief Risk Officer, Paris
→ European Head of Internal Audit
→ UK MLRO / European Head of Financial Crime
→ European Chief Financial Officer
→ Head of Market Risk & Reporting
→ Head of Credit Risk
→ Head of Enterprise Risk Management 
→ Head of Operations 
→ Head of Business Management
→ European Head of Banking
→ European Head of IT
→ Head of Communications - Europe
→ European Head of Treasury & Financial Markets
→ Business Manager to the CEO, IB

The Hip Hop Museum

Advising the Hip Hop Museum (THHM) on all things digital.

Advisor 

Growth Skills

Growth Skills is a Growth Marketing consultancy. Our learning platform teaches members sales and digital marketing skills to help them grow their careers and businesses. We allow members to earn coins, badges, certificates, and paid projects as they learn. If they take learning seriously and become an Apprentice we help them find a job.

Founder, CEO

Seamless.AI

Head of SEO & Content

MoneyLion

VP, SEO & Editorial Content

Head Of Content

JumpCrew

Chief Marketing Officer

MullenLowe Profero

Grow the search and content marketing group.

Global SVP, Search and Content Marketing

Responsible for growing and managing the search and content team. Developing the Search and Content Marketing Product.

Head of Search and Content Marketing

Director of Search and Content Marketing

• Develop SEO audits, technical recommendations and optimization for global brands (Western Union, Smirnoff, TRESemme, and others)
* Create and manage the delivery of SEO Products (Local SEO, PR SEO, Youtube SEO and more)
*Manage and train a team of 3 SEO Analysts

Senior SEO Manager

MullenLowe Mediahub Global

Build, develop and grow the search and content marketing group.

Run the Mediahub Search and content marketing team.

LocalVox

• Create and manage overall SEO and Local SEO strategies for the company and clients. Redesign & optimize blog for both SEO and Social Media in order to increase rankings and social sharing. Use video as part of the main SEO strategy by Skype interviewing top SEO experts like Rand Fishkin CEO of SEOMOZ to associate LocalVox with industry leaders to increase brand awareness and authority in the SEO field.The Rand Fishkin video got 86 Facebook likes, 76 Tweets including Tweets from him and other SEO experts and drove 1,000+ people to the blog in 1 day. Increased website traffic by 15% in 4 months and is still the most popular post on the website with 3,000+ views to date
• Hire, manage and train a staff of 6 SEO analysts who did local SEO for 200+ local businesses nationally like Chelsea Piers, New York Burger Co, Sushi Samba, Dramatics Hair Salon, and more. Covering verticals like real estate, law firms, restaurants, gyms, retail outlets and more. Rank clients Google+ Local page garnering #1 for “burger nyc” for New York Burger Co, driving 642 clicks to Dramatics 34th st location in 30days and creating 46,000+ impressions for Calle Ocho in 30 days
• Develop the companies core Local SEO product. Create call scripts, local SEO best practices,reporting templates, client website optimization and ensured that the Local SEO product increased local SEO rankings for our 200+ national clients 
• Managed company Meetup.com group and filmed, organized and helped run monthly online marketing events for local businesses.Helped grow the Meet Up group to 500+ members and drove 50 - 75 leads in the door, which averaged 1-5 new clients an event (approx. $1,000-$5,000) a month. Assist sales teams on sales calls and meetings to close deal increasing sales of Local SEO product
• Execute company wide SEO education creating documentation and teaching SEO best practices to clients, writers, sales team, and executives.

SEO Manager | Local SEO Product Developer

Tulip Pack Plastic LLC

• Create and execute SEO, SEM, Social Media , Blogging and Community building strategies
• Responsible for acquisition and maintenances of position 1-3 rankings on Google for numerous keywords in the highly competitive restaurant supply industry like cupcake containers, baking containers, muffin containers, disposable plastic containers, plastic cupcake boxes and more
• Boosted organic keyword rankings from 467 to 1060 (in 3 months) via keyword research to find long tail search terms, low competition keywords and high search volume keywords that are not being targeted. Monitored keyword rankings using various third party programs like SEMRush.com, Google Webmasters Tools, and SEO Quake Tool bar 
• Managed website Magento rebuild to maintain SEO rankings using 301 redirects, onsite page optimization, creating Google site maps, robot.txt file, H tag optimization, and Google Webmaster tools setup to insure quick indexing
• Create ads, landing page optimization, and manage $2,000 daily Google PPC campaign spend to increase conversions 
• Built and optimized the blog and using it to garner high quality back links from baking related websites which increased rankings

SEO Manager | Online Marketing Director

Philo Media Corporation

• Create and execute all aspects of online marketing strategies including Social Media Marketing, SEO, Email Marketing, Pay Per Click Management, Blogging and Community Development; to create brand awareness, drive website traffic and increase website membership. Resulted in 25% website increase in 4 months
• Create strategic partnership with popular TV show fansites and blogs to drive traffic and increase website membership and traffic. Resulted in about 75,000 unique visitors in a 4 months through this method alone
• Manage a team of three interns to fix the previously chaotic prize fulfillment process. Streamlined the process in two weeks and shipped hundreds of prizes from our network partners to sweepstake winners in various parts of the US
• Design, develop and manage social media footprint including the Blog, Twitter, Facebook Fan Page, You Tube, Digg, Quora, and StumbleUpon. Create digital content including blog posts and videos to promote PHILO. Resulted in 856% Facebook Like increase in 4 months (Facebook insight stats available upon request)
• Create and manage company mascot called PHILO Man, whom members fell in love with. He was a major part of community building and chatted with members on Twitter, Facebook and on the PHILO website. 
• Acted as Account Executive to brands, celebrities and networks, like Nickelodeon, BBC, and Shaq who wanted to utilize PHILO to create unique marketing initiatives for their fans.

SEO Manager | Social Media Marketing Director

AdAge 40 Under 40 - CEO at Growth Skills - Fractional CMO - Search Engine Land SEO Innovation Landy Award Winner - 2022 U.S Search Best Campaign Winner - 2nd Degree Black Belt - Bare Knuckle Karate Champion

I’m a performance driven Growth Marketing expert. I help brands acquire customers and increase their value over time. I have a deep speciality in SEO & Content Marketing. I made AdAge's 40 under 40 for innovating in these areas. I'm a self taught marketer so I can talk theory but also do hands on execution. 

Philosophy: There are only two relationships in Nature. Symbiotic and parasitic. Humans and corporations can chose to be either. I’ve chosen to grow and nurture symbiotic relationships with friends, family, coworkers and clients. I also help connect people who I know would thrive together. 

Kyokushin Karate: I’m a bare knuckle Kyokushin Karate champion. I equate bare knuckle Karate to growing a start up. You have to embrace the suck, be fearless and stare the problem in front of you right in the eyes and solve it. I’ve learned that martial arts has very little to do with kicking and punching but everything to do with life.

Specialties: Business and Team Growth, SEO Management, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, SEO Product Development, Social Media Marketing, PPC, Website Development, Video Editing, Video Production, Project Management, Partnerships, Negotiation, Sales, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, PR, Brand Building, Brand Positioning

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