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Halfords
Halfords is the UK’s leading retailer of motoring, cycling and leisure products and services.
Through Halfords Autocentres, it is also one of the UK’s leading independent operators in vehicle, servicing, maintenance and repairs.
Having gone through a series of acquisitions themselves they have also acquired and invested in additional businesses (Treadz, Cycle Republic, Tyres on the Drive) which have added to their brand.
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The Brief
Halfords wanted to ensure they are the UK’s number one for Motoring and Cycling. They embarked on a circa £60m Digital Transformation to ensure they have a single view of their customer and brought unity between their business divisions. Uniting Ambition partnered to enhance the Halfords technology division with plans to hire 40 individuals who can support this transformation. Several hiring challenges around culture, availability of the top niche quartile talent, and location-based work in the Midlands and London made the hiring process difficult.
The Solution
Uniting Ambition initially worked closely with the Group IT Director and the Head of Delivery to help build a high-performing team, working through the key priorities each area of the technology team required talent.
Roles covered:
- Head of Engineering
- Integration Lead
- Digital Developers
- Salesforce Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
- Data Architect
- Integration Architect
- Solutions Architects
- IT Delivery Managers
- Scrum Master
- Project Managers
- Business Analyst
- PMO
- Service Managers
Uniting Ambition mapped the market to find the right permanent and interim talent to support this transformation. The project required a search approach, rigorously assessing culture fit, establishing appropriate reporting lines, and managing and coordinating an end-to-end interview process with the hiring managers.
The Outcome
Since 2017, Uniting Ambition and Halfords have hired over 200 professionals across Halfords' array of growing brands.
