Case Study: Foxway Recommerce
ORDO Recruitment supports recruiting at your fast-growing company
When you are a fast-growing organization expanding in many markets at the same time it can be hard keeping up hiring skilled talents. This is the reason why a leading sustainably enabler and IT-pioneer Foxway effectively outsourced their recruitment efforts to ORDO Recruitment.
Making digital life easy is the vision of Foxway who offers a circular approach to IT that reduces the ecological footprint of electronics by extending their lifetime. The main services of Foxway Recommerce include refurbishment, value add, repair, remarketing of electronic devices and various IT solutions for sourcing and sales. In recent years Foxway Recommerce has experienced a rapid growth which means that the need for a global hiring strategy and sustainable hiring set-up increased.
“Our positions require a closeness to the market and availability of network in it, and as a fast-growing company we need many people at the same time. At this rate, we do not have internal resources, available local network, or skills to hire the most fit candidates in all these areas. Thus, the need for help with the recruitment process has been growing.”
Annika Ploom, Chief HR Officer, Foxway Group
Headhunting approach with instant success
In high demand of skilled and experienced sales and business development roles for their expanding markets Foxway Recommerce has chosen a long-term partnership with ORDO Recruitment. With a strong focus on flexibility, process, solution, and market experience, ORDO Recruitment has established a headhunting approach with instant success.
“Our choice of recruitment partner has been dependent on several parameters. The choice fell primarily on ORDO Recruitment because of Niels’ large network across Europe and his very agile, open, and personal approach to the recruitment process.
In our experience Niels is a very proactive and positive person with a can-do-attitude, which is the attitude that we at Foxway can identify ourselves with. There is no doubt that his skillset, experience, and know-how has meant that we have been able to land some of the strongest and most experienced candidates in the regions we are expanding into.”
Annika Ploom, Chief HR Officer, Foxway Group
A trust-based partnership
So far has ORDO Recruitment recruited 10 profiles in sales and business development for the Foxway Group with several other recruitments already undergoing.
“We have good and trustful cooperation with ORDO so far and we see it expanding. So, if you are growing and in need of international hiring, Niels is your go-to-partner across Europe.”
Annika Ploom, Chief HR Officer, Foxway Group
Over the past 5.5 months, Niels has served as interim Sales Director at Foxway Recommerce, reporting directly to President Mikkel Frid. During this time, he successfully led our global sales team of 25 professionals. Niels met our sales forecast and played a pivotal role in crafting our future sales strategy, ensuring the successful completion of the setup for our future sales organization. In parallel with his interim role, Niels was also responsible for recruiting and finding his successor, a new Sales Director for Foxway Recommerce. His close engagement with our customers, strong focus on execution and excellent collaboration with other departments within Foxway Recommerce have been instrumental in driving our success. Niels has proven to be a valuable asset to our team, and his contributions have laid a solid foundation for our continued growth.
Mikkel Frid
President of Recommerce Mobiles Business Area, Foxway
Vi havde et ønske om at skræddersy et udviklingsforløb til vores kundevendte medarbejdere med fokus på at formidle kundeoplevelsen i et bæredygtigt pengeinstitut som Merkur. Niels har ikke blot leveret, men også fuldt ud forstået vores værdier. Han har vist sig som en troværdig sparringspartner, der hurtigt opnåede indsigt i vores dagligdag. Niels’ tilgang har skabt et trygt træningsmiljø, hvor vores medarbejdere følte sig opmuntret til at udvikle sig og styrke deres færdigheder. Den tillidsfulde og respektfulde atmosfære, som Niels skabte, har virkelig bidraget til vores medarbejderes udvikling og fremgang.
Charlotte Skovgaard
Administrerende Direktør i Merkur Andelskasse
Vi valgte Ordo til at gennemføre et modul over 2 dage i henholdsvis Aalborg og København om formidling af vores værdier til vores kundevendte medarbejdere, så vores kunder kan mærke, at de er en del af et bæredygtigt pengeinstitut. Niels forstod hurtigt vores behov og værdier, hvilket var afgørende for os. Kurset var præget af stor psykologisk tryghed takket være Niels’ ro og behagelige tilgang. Efter kurset havde han individuelle samtaler med medarbejderne, hvilket gjorde, at de følte sig set og hørt og vidste, hvad de skulle arbejde videre med.
Katrine Rosengren Norup
HR-chef i Merkur Andelskasse
Our choice of recruitment partner has been dependent on several parameters. The choice fell primarily on ORDO Recruitment because of Niels’ large network across Europe and his very agile, open, and personal approach to the recruitment process.
In our experience Niels is a very proactive and positive person with a can-do-attitude, which is the attitude that we at Foxway can identify ourselves with. There is no doubt that his skillset, experience, and know-how has meant that we have been able to land some of the strongest and most experienced candidates in the regions we are expanding into.
Annika Ploom
Former: HR Director, Foxway Recommerce
Present: Chief HR Officer at Foxway Group
I worked closely with Niels in our period together in Eurasia/Russia and have stayed in touch with him since then. Niels is a great leader, with a strong eye for talent and how to develop and stretch them. He has strengths in building solid, trusted relationships, both externally with partners and internally. He puts a high bar for himself and his team, and achieved strong results in a fast-changing environment. I truly enjoyed working with Niels. He is a team-player, with a great sense of humour, well-grounded and balances his work-life balance well.
I can highly recommend Niels for his new company, Ordo Recruitment.
Victor Saeijs
Former: SVP, Nokia Europe
Present: EVP, EMEA Market Groups, The LEGO Group
I would thoroughly recommend Niels Møller Nielsen as a partner to help find solutions to your business needs. He has a very warm and empathetic personal style and is always seeking to manage his interpersonal relationships with sincerity and integrity. Niels is a strong leader who exudes authority, passion and seeks to to build high class engagement with his team, clients and partners.
He is entirely focussed on flawless execution – a hallmark of his career has been a strong track record of delivering results across major industries with blue chip companies. At the same time he sees the big picture and he works to build a bigger, better and brighter future in the interests of all stakeholders.
Stephen Twaddell
Former: President Europe, Kelloggs
Present: Managing Director at Twaddell Management Ltd.
Niels has an amazing ability to execute the strategy and achieve the goals. Always with a positive attitude and with an incredible amount of energy. Niels is one of the best sales executives I have worked with and he has an incredible ability to turn critical situations into a success story. Niels create a lot of positive energy and he never gives up.
Stefan Persson
Former: EVP & COO, Bang & Olufsen A/S
Present: CEO at Precise Biometrics
Niels is a strong and very dynamic commercial leader, with a solid experience and an outstanding trackrecord achieving results. He has outstanding implementation skills as he has the ability to quickly grasp the specifics of a new industry and to work deligently and effectively accellerate performance of his teams.
Anders Schnettler Kristensen
Former: CSO, WS Audiology A/S
Niels displayed a very high level of energy and can-do attitude when we worked together at Bang & Olufsen. He is particularly skilled at working with people from different parts of the world and with different cultural backgrounds.
Tue Mantoni
Former: CEO, Bang & Olufsen A/S
Present: Chairman of the board: Vækstfonden, Danish AM Hub, Lakrids by Bülow and Board Members in other danish companies.