The driving force behind Kevin Stuart is Oliver Jongma, an IT recruitment veteran with over 20 years’ experience in this specific domain.
He is a strategic IT Talent Acquisition Executive with 20+ years driving recruitment excellence across Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth technology companies. Proven track record building recruitment functions from ground zero in a hands-on fashion, scaling teams 200% in competitive markets, and delivering transformational hires. Specialised in sourcing scarce talent with 92% retention rates and consistent P&L responsibility.
Key experitse include:
Stakeholder Management: C-level partnership including CIOs, CTOs, and Board-level technology leaders in complex matrix organisation;
Data-Driven Recruitment: advanced Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter optimization, predictive analytics;
International Hiring: multi-country hiring across EU/EMEA with full legal and regulatory adherence;
Enterprise ATS Mastery: SAP SuccessFactors, Avature TalentRecruit, Connexys implementation and optimisation;
Delivery Mindset: executes team growth strategies by recruiting himself and optimising work between various departments;
Cost optimisation: achieved 92% 18-month retention rate across all hired professionals and delivered significant recruitment cost savings while increasing fill rates and tenure across all client engagements.
Throughout the years Oliver held different (managerial) roles within different IT recruitment companies such as Sthree, YER and the Vibe Group, whilst always hands-on recruiting himself. In 2017 he joined Perca Search as a Principal Executive Search consultant focussing on IT Leadership appointments.
In 2020 Oliver founded Kevin Stuart and since Oliver has supported various Tech/IT companies attracting scarce professionals in the IT domain.
Currently Oliver supports ONEXP for the second time in a second hyper-growth recruitment sprint.
Completed assignments as interim Recruitment Business Partner include:
SUPERP, a Dutch SAP, Mendix and Salesforce consulting firm;
IKEA, setting up RPO for Randstad Sourceright at the Amsterdam INGKA IT Hub;
CRH, the world's largest concrete manufacturer, recruiting in and for the CIO office of CRH International;
ONEXP, a Dutch scale-up specialising in the combination of IT and A/V in the super-yachting industry;
Forexx Group, a Dutch recruitment start-up, supporting the hyper-growth start-up phase, working hand-in-hand with the Founder.
Next to interim IT recruitment Business Partner assignments, Oliver keeps supporting his former clients in his network with their recruitment challenges.
His personal values are: curious, easy to approach, honesty and integrity, lots of energy, having fun in what he does.