The team

• Sarah Best

  Talent Acquisition Specialist
  

• Sarah Parker

  Talent Acquisition Specialist
  

• Kate Blackburn

  Talent Acquisition Manager
  

• Sarah Anderson

  Graduate Recruitment Manager
  

• Adam Dunn

  Head Hunter Partner for Executive Roles
  

• Paul King

  Head of Recruitment
  

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• Sarah Best

  Talent Acquisition Specialist

  Sarah’s background in social psychology, her work in research at the University of Aberdeen, and her experience with finance recruitment makes her the ideal candidate to lead Head Office recruitment.

  Her focus on initiatives to encourage cohesion and collaboration between our head office teams, both inside and outside of work, is paying dividends as we look to maintain our culture during the rapid growth of our business.

  Outside work, Sarah enjoys an active outdoor lifestyle with her family.

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• Sarah Parker

  Talent Acquisition Specialist

  Sarah’s experience in both agency and in-house recruitment gives her the edge when it comes to seeking out talent, and her friendly and warm approach pays dividends in nurturing the next generation of senior staff at Newton. There’s always time for a cuppa at Sarah’s desk!

  Outside work, Sarah’s newly discovered joy for the sport of rowing is unsurprising: an awareness of surrounding obstacles and the ability to deal with them decisively comes naturally to Sarah.

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• Kate Blackburn

  Talent Acquisition Manager

  Prior to working for Newton, Kate competed to a high level in dressage – even her degree is in this area! We like to think that Kate honed her high level skills in precision, flexibility and balance in the dressage ring with a specific nod to her future at Newton. Kate’s energy and dedication is reflected in the success of her experienced hire team.

  Outside work, Kate enjoys walking Marvin, her beloved Patterdale Terrier, on the Cotswold Way and threatens to do this 100-mile stretch in a weekend... one day.

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• Sarah Anderson

  Graduate Recruitment Manager

  Sarah leads our graduate recruitment team, using her consulting experience across a variety of public and private sectors – social care, retail, manufacturing, defence – to good effect as she runs the attraction, selection and onboarding of graduates.

  Sarah subscribes to our adage of "if you don’t like something, change it", and is inspired by the energy and collegiate attitude of her colleagues across the business. A recent four-month sabbatical to travel around the world, meeting new people and sharing career stories, confirmed Sarah’s view that Newton is a special and rewarding place to work.

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• Adam Dunn

  Head Hunter Partner for Executive Roles

  Kate has partnered with Adam for the last three years specifically looking at senior hires into Newton’s leadership. Adam has worked in Executive search since 2000 and has focused purely in the consulting space. His clients have spanned Strategy, Operations, Technology and Digital and he has operated across most industry sectors. Over the last ten years Adam has specialised in supporting the growth of small to mid-sized consultancies through practice builds, market mapping, insight and Executive Search. Prior to Sheffield Haworth he founded merlinspencer before joining the leadership team of nbi in 2016. Adam joined Sheffield Haworth in 2017 as part of the acquisition of nbi Consulting.

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• Paul King

  Head of Recruitment

  Paul has a passion for ensuring that we have the right people to work with every level of workforce across a diverse range of sectors. His analytical mind coupled with his long-term vision has given us clarity on the behaviours we need to achieve our goals sustainably, and his open mind and dedication to people development means that our recruitment process is fully primed to highlight the potential that will have the biggest impact for our clients.

  He’s an adventurous soul too, with a passion for a challenge: the first at Newton to ride a tractor inner tube down the River Usk (for fun). We can’t promise inner tubes at one of our Super Charged Selection Days, but Paul and his team’s hard work and dedication has earned Newton the reputation as one of the country’s top graduate employers.

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