Digital recruitment agency Futureheads Recruitment has hired an ex-Sage executive and opened a Tyneside office to break into the northern market.
Susan Miller is heading up the firm’s new office, in Dobson House, Newcastle, and has already recruited four new team members with further hires planned this year.
The company was established in 2009 by four co-founders, including North East entrepreneur Charlie Hoult, and its recruiters specialise in digital engineering, user experience and service design, tech development and testing, and product and project management across part-time and full-time roles.
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Futureheads currently employs about 60 people – and the team has almost doubled in size over the last 12 months. Business growth has been particularly strong in Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh – and London, where growth doubled last year.
Ms Miller explained: “The company’s recent growth has been impressive and the time was right to look for an office outside of London. I’ll be joined in our new office by four recruitment consultants, and we’re also looking for a senior recruiter to support me.
“Our flexible, hybrid way of working means that our teams are connected to a base, but can work from home when they need to.
“Our new base is partially a reaction to becoming a more distributed workforce, post pandemic, and partially to the company finding more clients outside of the capital.
“Futureheads is well-known and respected in London and its reputation is now spreading across the UK – our new Tyneside base will help with this. There is a lively, vibrant tech sector in the North East and we’re looking forward to being part of it and working with companies and organisations of all sizes.”
Nathan Callaghan, Futureheads’ MD based at the company’s London HQ, added: “Charlie Hoult’s role as a co-founder of Futureheads means that we’ve always had an interest – and connection – in the North East, but our reason for choosing Newcastle as a new base was also to do with Susan’s leadership and development knowledge and experience. After meeting her, we knew she’d be a great fit for the company and it made sense to build a team around her in her native North East.
“Charlie’s connections in the region are a huge, added bonus, as is the region’s proximity to the Scottish market.
“Covid has fundamentally changed the way in which so many companies work – in creating our first hub, and there may be more on the way, we are keeping in step with our customer base, matching and mirroring the way in which our clients have changed their business model.”
