Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics

Chris joined the business in 2011 as part of the Macildowie Training Programme and progressed through our Part-Qualified, Qualified and Senior Financial Recruitment desks. As part of a business growth strategy he recruited for Blue Chip clients in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes, quickly growing and developing his desk.

After a successful period of growth in those markets, Chris established our Milton Keynes division, before returning to Leicester to run the Financial recruitment team. Following his success in those roles, Chris became Regional Managing Director for the North East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

He also specialises in Senior Executive Finance Recruitment across the wider East Midlands.

Chris' Client Testimonials

ALEX HILL

Commercial Finance Manager at Weetabix

"Chris Huffen was excellent. He listened understood what I was looking for but challenges me in the right way about what my next step needed to be. Really appreciated all his support."

SHETUL MASHRU

Group Marketing Accountant / Analyst (Manager) at Travis Perkins / Wickes

“I thoroughly recommend Chris for your recruitment needs, because he makes the recruitment process more structured and simplified than others, thereby ensuring a smooth journey from candidate registration to employment offer(s).

His competency and professionalism is the reason as to why I have already recommended Chris to my colleagues and friends looking to progress in their career.”

VICCI TAYLOR

Recruiter (Credit Risk, Finance and Marketing) at Barclaycard

“I have worked with Chris since joining Barclaycard in November 2011. Chris' understanding of Barclaycards requirements and culture is second to none and has provided some outstanding candidates. He always has Barclaycards best interest at heart and can see that his view is quality rather than quantity. I look forward to working with Chris in the future and would highly recommend Chris as an exceptional recruiter.”

Darius joined Macildowie in 2010. Having built an enviable reputation as an HR recruiter of choice across Northamptonshire, and leading our HR and Sales and Marketing Divisions, Darius was appointed as Regional Managing Director for the South East Midlands. He also specialises in Senior Executive HR Recruitment across the East Midlands.

Darius has pioneered various networking and Thought Leadership events for our customers and believes that working in a true partnership based on transparency and trust is the key to a long term sustainable relationship.

I’m a recruitment outsourcing expert.

Having worked for three of the country’s most successful recruitment outsourcing firms, in different guises and across vastly different accounts – from Operations Manager of the largest MSP in Europe, to the lone running of an SME-sized RPO – I’ve experienced a lot in my nearly 10 years in recruitment.

I believe the future for permanent recruitment for every company SME-sized and above, should be a partnership focused RPO. Most businesses state that their people are their biggest asset, and an RPO is the best recruitment method to protect those assets when they’re in the process of entering your business. In tandem with Macildowie’s Retention Service, our RPO is also the best way to help protect those assets when they’re already in your business too.

I believe all RPOs should focus on three key things for their clients: cost, time and talent.

In a post-Covid-19 society, these things will matter even more - with budgets being tighter, smaller teams doing more, and the importance of “the best, not the first” candidate being paramount - and therefore the benefit of an RPO relationship to businesses will be even greater.

Macildowie’s RPO has those three elements at its heart, but it can go further than that, and in what we believe, a unique way.

Macildowie’s RPO is small and flexible and as such its service can genuinely be tailored to exactly what your business needs from a recruitment function (something that larger outsourcers with significant overheads are unable to do). We’re also able to offer two exceptional value-adding services which – from what I understand no other competitor is currently doing – in our Retention Services and People Hub facility. All of which is underpinned by years of quality Macildowie service.

My aim is for Macildowie RPO to be a trusted and valued partner for our clients, delivering on the three key objectives of cost, time and talent – and doing it in a unique way that we can be proud of.

Isaac's journey into the world of work has been a little complicated as he was studying A-levels when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. This meant a lot of doors he had planned for were suddenly shut tight.

Isaac then went into full time work as a collections agent within a fintech company. Within the same company he moved into a generalist HR role meaning he's had loads of exposure to the different aspects of HR. This is where he found his love for recruitment.

Then in 2022 the Cost of living crisis hit and he was unfortunately made redundant. He then decided to take a step and focus on recruitment. With Macildowie’s help he was placed in a fantastic company within the health and social care sector as a recruitment coordinator. After excelling within the role he was promoted into a group wide recruiter role meaning he was looking after recruitment for every one of the company's care homes.

Disaster once again struck and he found himself sitting in the redundancy seat after the company he was working for was merged with a sister company.

Now, with his exceptional knowledge of multiple industries and job roles, working at Macildowie he's feeling the most in his stride and is ready to help those looking for new roles within the Procurement and Supply Chain sector!

Katrina graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2023 with a BA Hons in Primary Education. During this degree, she has had experience of supporting needs and building relationships with people (involving various ages). She has took an interest in recruitment following her degree and started working for Macildowie in June 2023, focusing on Procurement. Katrina recruits for roles in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Key roles she recruits include: Procurement Administrator, Logistics/transport Administrator, Supply Chain Administrator, Purchasing Assistant and Supply chain planner/co-ordinator.

Previously graduated from University of Reading and have just moved up to Nottingham. I have previously worked as a waiter for Pizza Express and as a Candidate Specialist for another Recruitment firm as part of my placement. My current focus is going to be in Procurement in the Northern area.

Lewis joined the Public Sector team at Macildowie in September 2023 after spending some time travelling across South East Asia. His background is as an Internal Recruiter for a Technology company and he has experience recruiting in challenging markets with a niche hiring criteria.

Margarita is the Divisional Director for the Public Sector and Not for Profit Division which she established in 2018. She has been covering Public Sector and NFP since 2004 and has had national role since 2006, so she has strong knowledge and understanding and initiatives that affect the sector. The Division is responsible for permanent, fixed term and interim recruitment as well as consultancy solutions across Finance, Procurement & Commissioning, Project, Programme Management & Transformation, Marcoms, Regen & Economic Development, Policy and Performance, Planning as well as Executive appointments. The Division covers Local & Central Government, NHS, Education, Social Housing and Charities across the whole of the UK.

The Division has recently secured a place on the Crown Commercial Services RM6160 Public Sector Framework that covers the NHS and the Wider Public Sector. We also work in partnership with CIPFA and help sponsor events and seminars for the wider CIPFA members across the Midlands and nationwide. In addition Margarita and the team is able to offer psychometric assessments during restructures as well as new recruitment processes and deliver tailored client and candidate LinkedIn and CPD events.

Richard is the Managing Director of Macildowie’s Executive Search and Outplacement Support capabilities and as such has full oversight for the operations for both practices. Richard is responsible for sourcing Director and C-Suite level candidates for private sector companies on a retained basis. Margarita Fedoseyeva is responsible for executive search for private and NFP organisations. From an outplacement perspective, Richard manages workshops focussed on improving employability.

Richard also runs Macildowie’s MD/CEO Mastermind Forum and our NED Network. Both are peer-to-peer mentoring and networking groups which meet ona quarterly basis. Please connect with Rich if you would like further details.

Prior to working at Macildowie, Rich has recruited into both the private and public sectors in the UK, Australia and New Zealand in a specialised recruitment career that spans 20 years.

Simon joined Macildowie in February 2022 after 19 years with a blue-chip recruiter as the Associate Director for the Public Sector business.

Simon leads the team that specialises in the provision of consultancy services across their core disciplines of Finance, Procurement & Commissioning, Project & Programme Management, HR and Marketing.

He personally recruits permanent roles within Local Government whilst continuing to build their brand across the UK with the aim to make the Macildowie name synonymous with a consistently, high-quality delivery of services within Local and Central Government, NHS, Education, Charities and Housing.

After starting out as a trainee at Macildowie 10 years ago, Zoe is currently Associate Director based from our Nottingham office. Previously, Zoe has managed and grown our Clerical finance and Commercial Divisions across our Nottingham and Leicester offices. Currently, Zoe continues to support our Commercial Division in Nottingham in addition to assisting across the business with Training, Development, Mentoring, Recruitment and other projects.

Zoe also heads up our charity committee at Macildowie, working with local charities and organising fundraising events throughout the year.

Zoe's client testimonials

Edward Fernandez

“Zoe is a true professional in every way. She will work extremely hard to place you and is always honest. I would happily recommend her professional services as a recruitment consultant. Good luck and thank you.”

Nick Weatherspoon

“Zoe has supported the recruitment of key roles of the HR/Payroll Team, often at short notice. Zoe is great at building relationships to fully understand the businesses that she is finding resource for - I have no hesitation in recommending Zoe.”

Nicholas Carey

"I would like to put on record for you, my sincere thanks to both Ben and Zoe for the manner in which they conduct themselves and represent Macildowie.
I have recently found myself out of work and I have of course used the services of a few well-known Recruitment Agencies. Macildowie is the only one I will recommend to anyone.
Ben and Zoe have shown themselves to be unique, in that they are the only people that actually returned a phone call, and responded to emails from me. It doesn't matter that the roles discussed with Ben didn't materialise, or that I'm no longer available to attend my interview with FloGas, it's about them returning contact and doing what they said would do.

People who use your services, like me, are not at all happy about having-to in many cases, and it's a very stressful time, looking for work, staying positive, and coping with the lack of response, silence, and the knock-backs. Simple contact helps.
Customer service is a much thrown-about term, and every business likes to think they have it cracked, but actually very few do. It's just about courtesy and professionalism at a a human interaction level, and Ben and Zoe are a credit to your organisation in this respect.

I won't hesitate to recommend, and should the need arise in the future for me in my new role, to use your services.
Do please pass on my compliments to them both, as I always think good news should travel just as fast as bad news.
​Thanks very much indeed."