• AMANDA SMITH RECRUITMENT: Gosia Mickiewicz and Nicolas Marshall have been promoted to associate directors.

• AMS: The recruitment process outsourcing firm has taken on a new operations director for contingent workforce solutions, Melanie Barnett, and a director for technology and media, Mark Tennant.

• ARGYLL SCOTT: Richard Lindsay joins the middle management recruiter to head its professional and commercial temporary operations while head of legal search EMEA Mark Walters moves from London to set up a new Dubai office.

• BARCLAYS: Irene McDermott Brown becomes the bank’s group HR director, having held the role on an interim basis since October.

• CORDANT: The firm has appointed Adecco UK managing director Steven Kirkpatrick as chief executive officer of its recruitment division.

• EA CONSULTING GROUP: Mike Fisher moves to the change management recruiter to head its new financial services interims offering.

• EAMES: The white-collar recruiter has promoted Samantha White to the role of MD for the UK and Europe. Other promotions in the UK include managers Mark Rossiter-Smith, Claire Smith and David Stacey.

• EMPIRIC: The City recruiter’s new pharma brand Lifestar is being led by new hire Chris Peel.

• GAP PERSONNEL: The industrial labour supplier has appointed Simon Gillott as manager of its Sheffield branch.

• GLOCOMMS: The new telco brand of recruitment group Phaidon is headed by director Andrew Crouch, who formerly worked for Penta.

• HITACHI RAIL: Julia Potts joins the company as HR manager for a project in the North-East to construct a purpose-built train manufacturing facility, creating 730 jobs.

• HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES: L Kevin Kelly has stepped down from his role as CEO of the executive search giant and resigned from the board. Jory Marino has taken on the role of interim CEO.

• HORIZON NUCLEAR PLANT: With the energy facility’s workforce due to quadruple in the coming years, Rachel Worrall joins as HR business partner for resourcing.

• JIBE: The human capital and talent software provider has taken on Jim Duddy, the former director of search and staffing for North America at LinkedIn, as senior vice president of sales.

• LUMESSE: Neal Bruce joins the talent management software provider as director of product strategy.

• MICHAEL PAGE POLICY: Kas Rothwell has been promoted to operating director of London for the specialist recruitment company.

• IMULTIPLY RESOURCING: The accounting and finance recruiter has appointed Annemarie Allington as a director.

• PENNA: David Mackey has been taken on by the HR company’s executive recruitment practice as sector lead for HR.

• RETHINK GROUP: The IT recruiter has appointed new interim non-executive chair John O’Sullivan, who is already a non-exec at the firm, after John Sadiq stepped down from the role.

• SJB: Armin Schmitt joins the IT and executive recruiter to launch a practice based in Frankfurt.

• TALENT ROVER: The cloud-based recruitment solution has taken on Steve Harris as the company’s first European enterprise account executive.

• TAYLOR MARTIN: The Nottingham-based recruiter’s new construction division is being headed by new hire Trystan Evans.

• TEMPO: The alliance of recruiters and hirers has appointed Centrica resourcing operations manager Kate Wilding as the first client representative to sit on its steering group.

• TRG LOGISTICS: Bertie Maxwell succeeds Nick Gordon as chair. Gordon relinquishes the role to allow him to concentrate fully on his position as CEO at the recruitment firm.

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