Coty UK

Retained Recruitment Services & Preferred IT Recruitment Supplier

Summary

A 10 year partnership with the UK arm of the worlds's largest fragrance company. Based upon understanding commitment and knowledge of Coty's business and systems.

End to end recruitment management process and close liaison with Coty's IT Management team ensures shortlists of stringently vetted and highly suitable candidates for positions across the IT department. A combination of candidate calibre and Coty culture results in permanent positions being filled 'permanently'.

About Coty

Through astute acquisitions and licensing partnerships, Coty Inc. has achieved a leadership position in fragrance and has quickly emerged as a global leader in the world of beauty. Today, Coty is the world's largest fragrance company with sales of £2.5 billion for the year ended June 30 2008.

Driven by passion, innovation, creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit, Coty has built a unique portfolio of brands that have produced some of the strongest franchises in history, including Calvin Klein, Cerruti, Chloè, David and Victoria Beckham and Rimmel.

With offices in more than 30 countries and a strong presence in 90 markets, Coty's business model is based on developing power brands, licensing agreements, acquisitions and joint ventures to give the company an agility and flexibility that sets it apart from other beauty companies. The UK is one of Coty's largest and most profitable markets.

In 1999, shortly after Coty UK had completed the implementation of JBA software to manage its commercial operations, Andrew Jewson joined Coty as UK IT Director. At that time, Coty's JBA system was supported by SBA – a successful ERP Systems Integrator formed by Jeremy Bingham and Andy Smith, both of whom had been directly involved in the implementation and configuration of the JBA software for Coty. Coty's policy at that time was to outsource support and SBA provided a wide range of services including 1^st line application support, as well as on-going development and customisation of the JBA system.

Specialist ERP Recruitment Services

Jeremy and Andy also ran Catch - a highly successful IT and Finance Recruitment Consultancy. Both felt that this business was ideally suited to support Coty as it continued to expand its UK IT department, and approached Andrew Jewson to explore a possible business relationship.

“Catch approached me to ascertain whether they could work with us to address our recruitment issues,” continued Andrew Jewson. “I was, of course, familiar with Jeremy's and Andy's technical consultancy and support services. initially I invited them to compete with our existing recruitment agencies so that I could gauge their calibre.”

The recruitment services that Catch provided to Coty turned out to be highly effective. “They have a knack of finding the right people,” said Andrew. “They were familiar with our organisation and with our software and were able to come up with highly credible shortlists very quickly.”

Preferred Partner

Catch became Coty's preferred IT recruitment partner early in 2003, providing Coty with a wide range of permanent employees including AS400 application and development specialists, Infrastructure technicians and IT managers.

"In 2002 we were embarking on a recruitment drive for Business Intelligence specialists," explained Andrew. "At that time, Business Intelligence was a relatively new concept and experienced, capable and professional specialists were very thin on the ground. Catch was able to provide us with a shortlist of high calibre professionals, some of whom remain with us today".

Andy Smith, Operations Director at Catch takes up the story. "Across our client base we build relationships based upon understanding and commitment", he explained. "Our knowledge of both the Coty business and the systems that they have implemented means that we have the expertise and the experience to respond to all of Coty's IT recruitment requirements by only putting forward the best possible candidates."

Managing the Entire Process

Liaising closely with Coty's IT management team, Catch's IT recruitment services start with an in-depth appreciation of Coty's requirements for each available position – whether this be for an IT junior or a seasoned high-level IT manager. “Before we can begin to identify potential candidates, we need to fully understand the roles and responsibilities that Coty envisages for each available position,” continued Andy Smith. “Coty is an extremely popular place to work, and offers excellent career progression, so in addition to the necessary levels of technical competencies, we have to ensure that each candidate we put forward fits into the Coty culture and can quickly become part of the team. This is just part of the pre-interview briefing that we give to all of our candidates.”

“Unlike many other IT recruitment organisations, Catch provides us with extensive preparation services,” continued Andrew Jewson. “They pre-interview all candidates for each role and provide us with a concise and highly detailed shortlist, even advising us on their preferred candidate.”

Once Coty has selected the candidates that it wishes to interview, Catch works closely with the relevant Coty personnel to arrange interviews, provide feedback to both candidates and Coty, and manage the offer processes to successful candidates.

Although Andrew Jewson has now been appointed Global Vice President Information Management, Catch continues to work closely with the UK IT team. “This has been an excellent relationship,” concluded Andrew. “Catch not only provides us with the candidates we need when we are looking to recruit seasoned, proven professionals, they also deliver the project capacity that we need, exactly when we need it.”

Key Benefits:

10 year relationship built on understanding and commitment. Catch's knowledge of Coty's business and systems ensures the selection of ideal candidates
Entire recruitment process managed from end-to-end saves Coty time and money by removing the need to advertise positions and respond to CV's and Resumes submitted by potential candidates
Close liaison with Coty's IT Management Team reduces administrative overheads during pre-interview and interview and offer processes
Single source for all IT recruitment needs - from IT Juniors to Senior IT Managers
High success and retention rate
Entire process always managed within timescales and to cost/budget