This document provides information about The Director-e, a recruitment and placement website. It outlines the benefits of using The Director-e, such as free job postings for 3 months, optimized job listings that rank highly on Google, and promotion across social media and other job sites. It also introduces the managing director and commercial director, describing their backgrounds and contact information.

1. Information Pack
2017
For all enquiries, please email:
enquiries@thedirector-e.co.uk

2. Why Use The Director-e
• It’s FREE to post job advertisements for the first 3 months
⇒ BENEFIT: No risk, no contract, no cost to you
• Job advertisements are optimised for Google SEO and are currently ranking high on page 1 of Google within
7 days of the advert going live
⇒ BENEFIT: Your advert will be found quicker by candidates
• Promoted across Social Media
⇒ BENEFIT: Will increase your brand presence and attract the attention of candidates fast!
• All Director-e jobs are promoted on Adzuna – one of the most highly rated job search engines!
⇒ BENEFIT: Allied to our Google and Social Media presence, your job postings receive maximum
visibility across all channels
• You receive applications with CVs that have been designed and formatted in a way that helps you
⇒ BENEFIT: Saves you valuable time whilst allowing you to compare and contrast skills and experience
at a glance
• Directly message applicants
⇒ BENEFIT: Speeds up the process and makes your life easier
• Alerts to new senior and executive level candidate CV uploads
⇒ BENEFIT: You can fill vacancies faster with quality candidates
• Bookmark CVs for future reference and consideration
⇒ BENEFIT: You don’t lose valuable connections that will be of use in the future
• Benefit from the link value that will give your own web presence
⇒ BENEFIT: Be found faster, quicker and easier than the competition
About The Director-e
The Director-e is a new senior, executive and professional candidate recruitment and placement website with
powerful Social Media Marketing, class leading SEO, regular appearance on Google Page 1 and a pipeline of
developments that will re-write how executive job boards should operate. We are proactive, we are responsive to
user requests and we want to make a real difference to how senior, executive and professional candidates are
found, perceived, selected and placed.
Our mission is simple, “To work with and provide Recruiters, Hiring Managers and Head Hunters with easy search
and select access to a database of high-caliber, seasoned and proven candidates and to provide our candidates with
access to top quality jobs and placement opportunities that will deliver seasoned gravitas and a wealth of
experience, intellectual capital and expertise to the hiring company”.

3. Recruiters
We are a talent-led and business focused recruitment and placement website committed to generating the
maximum economic, business and social capital from some of the most successful, experienced and influential
business and stakeholder managers available. Of course, rising managers with experience and proven expertise
who are likely Directors and senior managers of the future are also welcome within The Director-e.
For Recruitment Agencies, Hiring Managers and Head Hunters we are dedicated to helping you find exceptional
candidates for those crucial and future facing roles - candidates who are proven professionals, highly experienced,
supremely qualified and able to demonstrate sustained success in numerous roles and situations.
We work with candidates who are able to hit the ground running, assimilate into new cultures and technologies
and identify and push new boundaries of operational performance, candidates who boast a track record of
operating at the very pinnacle of performance and will bring gravitas, expertise and competence to your clients
organisation.
At The Director-e we think like a recruiter and act like a business and have fine tuned our search and selection
process to ensure that our Recruiters and Hiring Managers find the ideal candidate with the minimum of effort. On
an ad-hoc basis we will carry out random candidate sampling to ensure that our registered candidates do match
their CV’s.
The development of our e-CV is in direct response to the challenges faced by Recruiters when searching and
comparing numerous different CV formats with key information often spread throughout the CV’s. Our ambition is
to make the Recruiters life as simple and efficient as is possible and the search and the presentation of our
candidates as informative and as effective as possible. By presenting our candidates in a simple, easy to read
document that focuses on and highlights the key skills, experience and expertise that matter to readers in a
beautifully designed and presented document that is ready to be downloaded and distributed to your hiring
managers.
In addition to standard, premium and featured job postings for Recruiters who have high-calibre candidates to place
but no roles to place them in, The Director-e offers Recruiters and indeed Human Resource Managers faced with
staff losses and out-placement needs, the opportunity to feature these candidates on both The Director-e and
through our Social Media channels. This increases the possibilities of placing these candidates in an ideal role
befitting the candidate, the hiring company and the recruiter.
With a growing database of seasoned professionals (many of whom are experienced business researchers,
marketers and report writers who have the experience to undertake confidential off-site projects for business of all
sizes and sectors) and prefer to work freelance, The Director-e will also offer Contract, Interim and Consultancy
placements to businesses from start-ups through to rescue and recovery.
Our fees, registration, search and selection process will all be familiar to Recruiters and Hiring Managers but our
Social Media Marketing, job and candidate profiling is class-leading. Registering with The Director-e is free and
registered Recruiters, Hiring Managers and Head Hunters will be the first to hear about and benefit from new
updates, alerts and opportunities as they come online throughout the year.

4. Les Phillimore
Managing Director
Starting his career as an electro-mechanical apprentice with GEC, Les soon rapidly changed direction establishing
himself in the gaming, leisure and hospitality sectors and joined family owned Greenall Whitley Ltd in 1983 as
they started out on a major expansion and stock market floatation programme.
Les grew with the group as it positioned itself as a leading £1.1bn FTSE 100 Plc leisure and hospitality operator and
as a Group Executive Manager for the then Greenalls Group Plc, Les relished the responsibility of a substantial multi-
disciplined national workforce and multi-million pound revenue and cost budgets.
Taking leading roles in corporate strategy and behaviour, performance and brand management, mergers and
acquisitions, product development, and multi-faceted change within technology-led multi-site operations Les’s
passion for business excellence saw him introduce numerous initiatives to leave a trail of bench-setting and first-to-
market innovations across multiple disciplines setting far-reaching new standards of performance with iconic
corporate clients such as Whitbread, Mitchells and Butler, Scottish and Newcastle, Allied Domecq, Bass, Enterprise
Inns and DeVere Hotels to name a few.
In 2006 Les was appointed UK Managing Director (Designate) for a joint venture between the $3bn USA Harbour
Group Inc and a major UK retail Plc with the immediate challenge of turning-around and re-energising a stalled
multi-million dollar, multi-stakeholder investment programme. Job done Les transferred to the sister company to
lead on next-generation Trans-Atlantic digital NPD / NPI programmes.
A Co-Director of a boutique Business Consultancy Les’s recent projects have seen him working on numerous
regional, international, start-up and innovation projects which have served to further cement the economic and
business needs for The Director-e to be a leading light in 21st Century recruitment and placement.
Contact Les at les.phillimore@thedirector-e.co.uk or 07917 701390
Les is particularly happy to speak about:
1. The Director-e - the vision, the mission, the opportunities and the even bigger opportunities.
2. Performance Management - getting the best out of your people, your suppliers, your clients and your
business.
3. Seasoned expertise supporting micro / SME / Innovation businesses.
4. Recruitment, placement and over-qualification - the misnomer in the economy.

5. Matthew Willis
Commercial Director
Matt started working in recruitment in 2009 for his father's business FMCV, which is a niche agency that
specialised in the coffee, catering and food service industries.
Since his father's departure from the business in 2012, Matt is now the owner and director of FMCV and has since
expanded into a number of other industries, including town planning, legal and facilities management.
Matt and Les crossed paths in late 2012 when Les applied for a senior operations manager position (which
unfortunately later fell through and the vacancy closed) and have remained in close contact ever since.
Matt married Natalia in 2013 and they very recently welcomed Anastasia to the Willis family.
Contact Matt at matthew.willis@thedirector-e.co.uk or 07974 195853
Matt is particularly happy to speak about:
1. Use of technology within recruitment.
2. Placements v’s over qualification.
3. Job security / instability and managing crises’.
4. Recruitment and how the markets react to uncertainty (including Brexit).

6. Craig Johnstone
Operations Director
Managing Director of UK marketing services provider Mulberry Square, Craig has 30 years of experience in the
printing, publishing and marketing communications industry; the last 19 of which he has spent building his own
print management and marketing services businesses in a very competitive and fast moving landscape.
Innovation has been fundamental to Craig’s business success, being a pioneer in the development of the print
management sector in 1997 at the age of 27 and has since been a leading figure in the sector’s transition to
marketing services - borne out by the British Printing Industry Federation’s testimony at MediaPro 2010.
A time-served lithographic multi-colour machine manager with an eye for colour and stickler for quality, he rapidly
rose through the print industry ranks as an estimator, sales representative and business development manager with
some of Leicestershire’s foremost and well respected printing companies, honing his skills and developing his
knowledge whilst recognising that quality and service were the pillars that provide the foundation of success for any
business.
He has been a firm advocate of life-long-learning and is the perfect example of how those with a thirst for
knowledge can use social media and the World Wide Web to enhance and further their education, harness
information and turn it into an opportunity not only for their own business but most importantly for the benefit of
their clients.
Les first discussed his vision for what has become The Director-e with Craig in March 2015. Craig has since, with his
marketing team, taken up the development of the company’s brand identity, honed and developed its online
presence and helped to shape its strategy and proposition with his fellow directors to where it sits today.
Contact Craig at craig.johnstone@thedirector-e.co.uk or 07540 722094
Craig is particularly happy to speak about:
1. The immense value that the over 50’s can bring to business.
2. The importance of continual personal improvement.
3. How important it is to be able to recognise and communicate the benefits you can offer, whether it be as a
business or an individual, in relation to your target’s need.

7. Rachel Hargrave
Communications Director
Rachel Hargrave has over 23 years of communications experience across a wide variety of clients including:
Corporate (BP, Castrol, Honda Motor Europe, Canon UK and Canon Europe, BT, O2, Vodafone, GSK, Allergan,
Linklaters, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler Chrysler, BUPA, Mars Group, Lloyds TSB)
Public Sector (UK Trade & Investment, East Midlands Development Agency, Arts Council England - East Midlands and
the NHS)
Third Sector (Arts & Business, Creative Leicestershire, the Odysseus Foundation, Charity Link, Rainbows Hospice for
Children and Young People, Hathern Dog Rescue, Leicester Charity Link and LOROS - the Leicestershire and Rutland
Hospice).
Prior to forming RDZ PR Ltd, Rachel originally worked in film and video, moved into creating and producing live
events (conferences, exhibitions, gala dinners and award ceremonies) before settling in corporate communications.
This varied background has given Rachel key skills in strategy, implementation, content design and delivery, as well
as project management.
Rachel founded her first agency 14 years ago and RDZ PR Ltd in 2014. Rachel joined Les and The Director-e in 2013 as
Communications Director.
Awards Won
CorpComms Award - Best Corporate Publication - Private Sector
Corporate Engagement Awards - Best Relationship-building sponsorship programme for Canon Europe Tuxedo
programme
Contact Rachel at rachel.hargrave@thedirector-e.co.uk or 07976 806578
Rachel is particularly happy to speak about:
1. Telling your story authentically.
2. Communicating effectively internally and externally.
3. The importance of values in a business working in a competitive marketplace.