How Pivotal London delivered 48 hires across Marketing, Design, Tech, and Ops through a six-month Embedded Talent Partnership - reducing cost-per-hire by 37% and cutting average time-to-hire to just 36 days.
Ancient + Brave, a fast-scaling wellness brand, needed to grow cross-functionally while entering new markets and evolving from DTC to retail. With a lean People team, they required high-touch, high-volume hiring support. Pivotal deployed a dedicated Talent Partner, seamlessly integrating with their internal processes and managing all aspects of hiring across the business.
“Pivotal have been such a huge help with all of the roles we're recruiting and have made the process so much more streamlined.”
- Head of eCommerce, Ancient + Brave
The Incubeta Partnership
How Pivotal’s Embedded Talent Partnership helped Incubeta make strategic hires across Paid Media, Search, Programmatic, and Client Services — reducing cost-per-hire by 63% and cutting time-to-hire to under 40 days.
In one of the most competitive hiring markets, Incubeta needed senior leadership and specialist talent quickly, without sacrificing quality. Pivotal embedded a dedicated recruiter within their business, fully integrating with internal systems and hiring managers to streamline delivery, enhance candidate experience and drive consistent results.
“Pivotal has seamlessly filled roles at all levels — the embedded partnership gave us the agility to scale quickly without having to worry about extra costs or resource burden internally.”
– Operations Director, Incubeta
How Pivotal and Publicis Media developed a Recruitment Project to hire Digital Marketing & Media Talent at scale and drive business growth.
Publicis Media helps clients drive sustainable business growth by harnessing the modern media landscape to drive one-to-one consumer connections at scale. Led by Sue Frogley, CEO, Publicis Media UK is made up of 2000 people working across market-leading media agencies including Zenith, Starcom and Spark Foundry as well as specialist practices Publicis Media Exchange (PMX), Performics, Publicis Sport & Entertainment, Publicis Media Content and NextTECHnow.
“If you are looking for a strategic talent partnership then you should consider a specialist embedded talent project. With the support of
Pivotal, we have filled more roles than we ever have in the most competitive market in years. It’s the way forward”
How Pivotal and Incubeta developed a strategic Talent Partnership to help drive business growth.
Incubeta is a global marketing performance company that offers a range of digital advertising and media solutions. The company’s service portfolio includes paid search marketing, pay-per-click marketing, data intelligence, website design and development, website and database hosting, social media services, social media applications, search engine optimization, user experience, publishing, and more.
"Through working with Pivotal, we have enjoyed a distinct step-change in the quantity and quality of candidates interviewed. The extra drive they have given our recruitment efforts have translated to excellent hires in a challenging market."
How Pivotal and Zenith Global developed a Recruitment Project to hire Digital Marketing & Media Talent at scale and drive business growth.
Zenith Global is a world leading food and drinks consultancy. Their commercial and technical consultancy, market intelligence and conference services have helped shape the worldwide food and drinks industry for 30 years.They work with over 1,000 clients in 50 countries, ranging from start-ups to multinationals. They help these companies in nearly every aspect of their business, both commercial and technical.
"Pivotal has been instrumental in sourcing candidates for our growing Programmatic team here at Zenith Global. I would highly recommend Pivotal for their professionalism, enthusiasm and experience as they always does her best to help us acquire top talent.”
How Pivotal and Nest developed a Recruitment Project to hire Digital Marketing Talent at scale and drive business growth.
Nest is a founder-led Performance Marketing Agency set up by former Google and Facebook experts.
The business specialises in scaling E-commerce & DTC’s on Paid Social, working with some of the most exciting and disruptive brands in this space – Huel, Depop, Papier and Feelunique to name a few.
Since launching in 2017, Nest has become one of the fastest-growing independent agencies in the UK and have doubled in size every year, all through word-of-mouth referrals.
“Pivotal has a willingness to quickly look at non-traditional models and solutions. The Project model offers greater cost efficiencies, flexibility, service, and results. Overall it’s a significantly better experience than any other recruitment company or solution we’ve used.” Will Ashton, CEO, Nest Performance.
How Pivotal and Ogury developed a Recruitment Project to hire Digital Sales Talent to support business growth.
Ogury is a leading mobile data company, providing the most comprehensive, 360-degree view of global user behaviour across both app and mobile web usage.
Their proprietary technology - integrated within thousands of apps - enables Ogury to build the most accurate mobile user profiles available, using first-party behavioural data directly from the users’ devices. Ogury’s mission is to make mobile data work for everyone, by delivering unrivalled monetisation, ad targeting, and analytics tools for businesses, advertisers, and publishers that greatly enhance revenue, results, and the mobile consumer experience.
"Knowing that we had experienced recruiters such as Pivotal who is dedicated to our roles, was priceless. We knew that our message wouldn’t get diluted. Pivotal was also closely aligned with what we are looking for. Both parties worked fast in terms of us receiving CV’s, sharing feedback, arrange interviews and making the decisions on who we hired. With more agencies, this would have been much harder to manage."
