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CASE STUDY

NP Talent Solutions and r3

Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing for International Blockchain Innovator

 

About r3

r3 is an enterprise blockchain technology company. It leads an ecosystem of more than 400 firms working together to build distributed applications on top of Corda for usage across industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, trade finance, and digital assets. With a global specialist workforce, R3 is one of the fastest growing blockchain specialists in the world. 

The Challenge

r3 engaged with NP Group to; 

  • Enhance the Talent Acquisition function in response to significant R3 growth targets from sub 100 to 400+.
  • Develop Workforce Planning
  • Design a Talent Acquisition Strategy 
  • Implement End to End Requisition Management
  • Provide Recruitment Analytics and Market Insight 
  • Help with it's Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
  • Significantly reduce agency spend through the implementation of direct sourcing strategies 
  • Recruit highly technical engineering and leadership appointments
  • Ensure TUPE and service go live in August 2019 across EU, USA and APAC
  • To provide a world class service to the hiring community within r3
  • To position R3 EVP as an “Employer of Choice” through strategic branding and marketing

 What We Did

  • Built an HRBP function, a learning and development function, a world-class recruitment operation & opened offices all over the world.
  • NP Group RPO facilitated the opening of Dublin office within 6 months to 30 employees.
  • Increased the candidate job acceptance rate to 85%.
  • Facilitated University Partnerships with Trinity and UCD.
  • Increased direct hires to 97% from 30%.
  • Helped grow the R3 business from 100 to 300 hires in 3 years.
  • Helped dramatically with attrition rates post-covid. 

Jamie Wellen, Head of People & Talent at R3 comments; 

"R3 have enjoyed a strong collaboration with NP Group for 3 years and we have recently extended our partnership agreement for the RPO service. As our Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider, they have integrated successfully within our business, supporting all divisions and global locations with recruitment, screening and onboarding processes. And as a result, have brought significant improvements to the R3 hiring process including reducing time to hire and lowering recruitment costs.

NP Groups scalable team of committed and passionate recruiters has enabled us to grow our business, mobilise new contract wins and develop new products. The NP team have demonstrated flexibility and dedication to R3 during our expansion in Ireland, helping to build out a new location and engineering team from scratch, whilst always looking to identify new ways of working to provide value and respond to our changing demands.” 

£
Significant cost
efficiences
100%
Delivery against
demand plans
40%
Reduced agency
spend
50%
Reduced time
to hire
£
Significant cost
efficiences
100%
Delivery against
demand plans
40%
Reduced agency
spend
50%
Reduced time
to hire
£
Significant cost
efficiences

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UK Office

Broadwalk House
5 Appold Street
London
EC2A 2DA

[email protected]

020 7953 0070

European
Office

NP Group B.V.
Ceintuurbaan 211
3051 KV Rotterdam

[email protected]

+31 10 899 0877

UK Office

Broadwalk House
5 Appold Street
London
EC2A 2DA

[email protected]

020 7953 0070

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