Ben Quartermain

Resourcing Manager

Industry Focus

  • Technology

  • Digital Transformation

  • Defence Technology

  • Engineering

Ben’s Core Attributes

  • Technology talent acquisition and strategic workforce planning

  • End-to-end recruitment delivery (permanent and contract)

  • Stakeholder engagement and supplier management

  • Recruitment technology implementation and process improvement

Meet Ben Quartermain

Ben is a technology recruitment specialist with more than 20 years’ experience spanning in-house, RPO and agency environments. He partners with technology-led organisations to design and deliver end-to-end recruitment strategies that align digital and engineering workforce planning with growth ambitions, bringing a track record of high-volume delivery at pace, reduced cost-per-hire and faster time-to-hire.

Known for building trusted, long-term relationships with technology leaders, hiring managers and suppliers, Ben combines a consultative style with sharp commercial judgement and a strong grasp of the technology landscape. His focus is on more than filling roles: he embeds the processes, tooling and supplier arrangements that give technology organisations a stronger, more resilient recruitment capability for the long term.

Ben’s Assignments
Consulting

  • Sunfish Online. Leads end-to-end recruitment of contract and permanent technology staff across the consultancy’s digital transformation and defence engagements, partnering with hiring managers and senior leaders to shape resourcing strategy, manage the preferred supplier list and continually bring time-to-hire down.

Recruitment Technology
  • Led the rollout of a new Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) to 750 users, designing and delivering live training to drive smooth adoption.

  • Followed this by implementing the Voyse digital job description platform to strengthen the employer value proposition and bring consistency to role profiles.

Cost Reduction

  • Jungheinrich UK. Reduced annual recruitment spend by c.£600,000 through strategic sourcing, process improvement and vendor management, while consistently delivering 200+ hires per year across engineering and technical roles.

HR & Compliance

  • Redesigned the end-to-end interview process to ensure full HR compliance, improving consistency, fairness and alignment with employment legislation. Worked in close partnership with HR leadership to integrate recruitment workflows with the wider HR system landscape.

Executive Search

  • Partnered with senior leadership teams to deliver critical technology and engineering hires up to board level, ensuring each appointment aligned to long-term strategic objectives and added lasting value to the leadership group.

Recruitment Agency

  • Spent eight years as a Senior Recruitment Consultant managing end-to-end recruitment in specialist technical markets, blending business development, account management and candidate sourcing on hard-to-fill, time-sensitive vacancies, while mentoring junior consultants to grow the team’s capability.