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Savills success story
Savills is a real estate services provider, advising corporate, institutional and private clients seeking to acquire, lease, develop or realise the value of residential and commercial property across the globe
9
years partnered
25
successful placements
5
teams grown
Our work with Savills
We began working with Savills in 2015 to grow and develop their bids department. Since then, our specialist bid recruitment team have placed almost the entire bids team. Director, David Wall, and Manager, David Bremner, have built a very close relationship with Savills and are now the business’s recruiters of choice.
Building out the bids team has been just part of the work 3Search has achieved in partnership with Savills. We have also worked with their marketing, digital marketing and communications teams to hire some excellent talent.
- Bid Manager
- Interim Bid Director
- Bid Associate Director
- Public Sector Bid Manager
- Bid Design Manager
- Bid Writer
- European Bids Manager
- Bid Executive
Specialist bids & proposals recruiters
When we first began working with the company, Savills were looking to build a business development function for the first time. However, their internal recruitment team were struggling to identify the right calibre of candidates.
Bid Managers have a very niche skillset and so there is a very small candidate pool to engage with. As a result, having exhausted all of the usual recruitment channels, Savills recognised the benefits of partnering with a specialist bid recruitment agency. So, the hiring manager reached out to 3Search bids specialist recruiter, David Wall.
David and his team have been able to leverage their network of Bid Managers to build Savills’ initial business development team and have continued to support on their expansion ever since.
Providing market research on bid salary expectations
Working within such a competitive market, it is important to offer the right compensation package to attract candidates. One of the biggest challenges David and Head of Bids, Ellie Blenkinsop, faced was explaining to the wider business the value of the bids team to the company.
Consequently, David was able to provide Ellie with the market research to secure the budget needed to hire the best bids talent.
We are active members of the bids community
While the majority of the Savills bids team has been placed by headhunting talent, we have also identified excellent candidates for the business through less traditional means.
3Search are proud to be active members of the bids community and often attend the APMP conferences. These events provide the perfect opportunity for our specialist recruiters to stay up-to-date with the industry and grow their networks of candidates and employers.
We take our connections seriously and always keep in touch with those we meet. Having had a follow-up conversation with one candidate we met at an event, we were able to put them in touch with Savills. We had taken the time to understand what they were looking to gain from their next career move, and Savills was the perfect match. The candidate started with the business shortly after.
We have worked closely with David and David over the course of the last seven years to grow our talented bids team at Savills. He's a specialist in his field, who understands our team's drivers and goals in the context of the wider bids industry. He always keeps an open dialogue throughout the search for new talent to make sure that we can place our people in roles that offer them maximum opportunities to progress in our business. Thanks David!
David Wall at 3Search is a rare find in the world of recruitment. His depth of knowledge and understanding of our Bid sector means that he is able to supply us with candidates of quality who don’t disappoint. At all times David is also professional and calm- a joy to work with and I would highly recommend for anyone in the Bid space who is looking to grow their team.
Hear from our successful candidates...
I worked with David Bremner on my move to Savills. For someone who was on the fence about leaving their previous employer, he was patient with me, non-pushy and pragmatic. He got to understand my strengths and hesitations and put me forward for a role where, despite it being a leap upward, I have excelled in and enjoyed every single minute. Certainly, the best move of my career to date and I have David to thank for empowering me to do so.
David helped place me at Savills UK earlier this year (and during a pandemic). I’ve known David for a while and we had previously spoken about another role, a year on he remembered me and thought I’d be a good fit for the Savills team. What really stands out about David (apart from his genuine interest and charm) is the ability to read individuals and matchmake based on personality alongside skill set. He always makes time for his clients and genuinely cares. David is an asset to any recruitment team and I look forward to working with him in the future, but hopefully not too soon!
After attending one of David Bremner's webinars on LinkedIn he followed up with a chat. He was so easy to talk to and fully listened to the concerns I had over my career direction. Within a week (maybe less) David came back to me with some options. After talking them through with me he put me forward for 3 roles and organised interviews so quickly and in less than a week David had secured me an amazing new job!
Now...
We continue to work closely with the Savills team on all of their bids and proposals hires as well as the wider marketing team.
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