Ray Williamson

Executive Search ConsultantSpecialising in Executive Search & Selection

Ray Williamson is an experienced head-hunter with over 20 years’ experience. He has been involved in the recruitment of Chief Executives, Board & Non-Executive Directors, Managing Directors, and Chairs across many of today’s leading industries. Ray graduated with a CIPD Advanced Degree in Human Resources. He is a qualified Senior HR Practitioner, REC Qualified, a SHL qualified Psychometric testing coach and trained in assessment centre design.

Experience and Track Record

Ray's experience covers Infrastructure, Utilities, Transport, Local Government, Housing, Health, Education, Private and the Voluntary Sectors both in the UK and overseas. Additionally, Ray has worked at project level within FMCG and the Food & Drinks Industry and has written internal Recruitment Processes, delivered senior board and operational level Directors together with HR Outplacement Services for some of the leading companies in the UK.

In addition to traditional retained executive search campaigns, Ray has extensive experience across Strategic Estates Management: Health & Safety; Building Services Design, Space Management & Social Housing Regeneration and Facilities projects and works to engage and attract 'industry leading' professionals from both private and public sectors, and works to engage and attract these individuals into leadership roles.

Ray has recruited some of Scotland's highest-profile executive and senior leadership roles in recent years including:

Social Housing - Leadership appointments including Managing Director, Asset & Repairs Director, Executive Group Director DLO
Higher Education - Head of HSEQ, Head of Facilities Management, Assistant Director of Estates & Buildings
National Government Bodies - CEO
The Arts - Partnership work including an Estates Operations restructure campaign to appoint the Director of Estates, Assistant Directors of Campus Operations, Head of Space Planning & Moves Management, Head of Building Operations (Hard FM)
Public Sector national Bodies - Roles including, Commercial Contract Lead, FM Category Specialists, Head of Procurement and Technical Design Manager

A proud family man, in his spare time Ray makes a valuable contribution to his local community where he has been a volunteer Chairing Panel member for Children’s Hearings Scotland for over 5 years

Some of Ray's recent placements include:

Non-Executive Director - Social Housing
Head of Housing - Social Housing
Head of Health & Safety - Social Housing
Head of Workspace - Social Housing

NRG has a great culture throughout the business that makes it easy to feel comfortable at work and encourages you to develop your own desk in a way that works for you. As part of a larger team, I have always felt welcome and supported by colleagues and managers and a valued member of the group.

"Launched in 2017, Valens Medical Partnership is a patient led Primary Care Network group made up of 8 GP practices. We engaged NRG to carry out a search to identify suitable candidates for the role of Managing Director. We sought to recruit a values-focused candidate that could quickly and effectively establish and embed best practice principles around patient care - whilst also providing the strategic leadership necessary to drive the Partnership forwards.NRG conducted a detailed search, providing us with target candidates and the ability to shape the scope and direction of the search in line with our expectations around strength and suitability of the candidates shortlisted. The candidates presented for interview had backgrounds from outside the sector as well those with healthcare experience. NRG helped us undertake an effective and open assessment process from which we were able to select a strong candidate new to healthcare with strong logistics and supply chain skills with a specific focus on process and systems to underpin a high performing team."
NHS Primary Care Network

Working with Catherine this year has been fantastic. In particular I had a non-standard Payroll & HR Systems Manager role to fill and knew it would be tricky finding a candidate with technical expertise who would also be a strong fit into the team and culture. The candidates selected by Catherine were all of a really high calibre and that's testament to the time she took to really understand the business and listen to what we needed. Not all recruiters do this and it was a pleasure to see. We couldn't be happier with our latest team member and don't know how we managed before she joined.

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