Ed O'Connell

What’s your role in the group?

I’m a highly experienced staffing and managed services leader with over 20 years in the industry, bolstered by exposure to S&P 500 and private equity environments. As the UK CEO of Eames Group, I’m responsible for the Eames Consulting and ECMS proposition in the UK. I pride myself on my ability to build and scale businesses through a focus on delivering excellence.

What excites you about the future at Eames Group?

The current marketplace is a perfect storm of change. What excites me most is having a business organised to meet the challenges, demands and opportunities that this perfect storm presents. Through our four specialist areas of technology and digital enablement, change and transformation, corporate functions and our heritage of insurance specialist disciplines, our group of differing yet complementary brands is uniquely put together to provide opportunities for candidates and clients.

What does being an opportunity maker mean to you?

For our clients, it means using our subject matter expertise to read the marketplace and provide real insight. By getting behind the scenes to understand what they’re trying to achieve and the challenges they’re facing, we provide the best talent to help them create opportunity.

For candidates, it means utilising our close relationships and providing the right advice to help them progress. It’s not just about giving them access to a new role today, but supporting their career tomorrow so that they can keep moving forward.

For us, we’re not just recruiters, we’re shapers of the markets we’re in and as a consequence, we’re creating our own opportunities internally for the group. We’re giving people the opportunity to take on more, do more and learn more about their markets.