Driving 71 hires in 10 months for SaaS powerhouse Spryker

Spryker were gearing up for hyper growth and were planning on doubling in headcount in 2022. We partnered with them for 10 months and we spoke with Lana Meilinger, Global director of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding about our partnership.

🎤 WHO ARE THEY?

Spryker is the leading composable commerce platform for enterprises with sophisticated business models to enable growth, innovation, and differentiation. Designed specifically for sophisticated transactional business, Spryker’s easy-to-use, headless, API-first model offers a best-of-breed approach that provides businesses the flexibility to adapt, scale, and quickly go to market while facilitating faster time-to-value throughout their digital transformation journey. We spoke to Lana Meilinger, Global director of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding‍

💜 THEIR CULTURE  ‍

Spryker incorporates the concept of ‘flow’ into their culture and believe that work should be incorporated into people’s lives, as opposed to the other way around. To that end, they adopt actual flexible working hours, flexible and unlimited vacations and a legit ‘work from anywhere’ policy for all their staff.

Their core values of trust and autonomy are modelled by their leadership team and woven into everything their people do. They’re big into providing L&D support to their team members and are heavily involved in a wide range of impactful CSR initiatives.

Too good to be true right? In actual fact, we found their culture on the ground to be just as good, if not better than it sounds on the careers page, and they were an awesome partner during our 11 months together.

‍🚨 THE CHALLENGE‍

Spryker were gearing up for hyper growth, and were planning on doubling in headcount from 450. Their team of 4 Senior Talent Acquisition Managers were at capacity and they were looking to develop their internal  function with specialised sourcing and coordination teams. They needed an embedded partner to help them scale while they built their new structure behind them.  Spryker were looking for a partner that strives for the same excellence and hiring quality that they do. 

"The best thing about Move was their absolute customer centricity"

- Lana Meilinger, Global Director of TA & Employer Branding

🛠 OUR SOLUTIONS

• We deployed a multidisciplinary squad consisting of talent partners and talent sourcers. 
• We activated outreach campaigns across Tech, Commercial, Marketing and Finance 
• We provided interview training to hiring managers 
• We guided hiring managers through the process, showing under the hood with our talent intelligence platforms 

According to Lana, the best thing about partnering with Move was;

• We're a super flexible solution for when you need to scale your talent acquisition team.
• Our ability to scale fast. 
• Our speed of delivery. 
• We're able to provide solutions across all business areas. 
• We learn and adapt to challenges and are welcoming of constructive feedback. 
• We make data-driven decisions using our talent intelligence platform.  

🎉 OUTCOMES

• 71 hires made
• Average of 7 hires per month 
• Cost avoidance of £383’000
• Hires across Tech, GTM, Marketing and Finance

How MOVE can help you too .....

Our talent acquisition service assists our partners with high-level strategy and on-the-ground recruiting to make sure you score your ideal hires. We made over 400 hires to our portfolio companies last year — just one of the reasons we receive a net promoter score of 75 from our portfolio leaders.

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