The Challenge
Nutricia had plans for future growth and service expansion opportunities which were dependent on the sourcing and on boarding of high quality nursing talent. Due to internal capacity constraints, Nutricia required an outsourced partner to support the development and management of a strong talent pipeline.
At the time, Nutricia were reliant on agency sourcing, which accounted for the majority of hires and that proved detrimental to both the permanent candidate experience and the employer brand.
The Solution
Cohesion have been providing a full end-to-end Recruitment Process solution to Nutricia since 2015, and have worked in partnership to inform their business and provide invaluable market insight and expertise into their recruitment process.
- Cohesion’s expert Clinical recruiters have been able to assess applicants’ values, strengths, behaviours and competencies.
- This process then led them to be able to provide Hiring Managers with a shortlist of the most suitable candidates.
- Working with HR and Hiring Managers to plan future workforce requirements allowed Nutricia to already have the right candidates in sight when the situation demands them.
- Our specialist recruiters have been able to advise and deliver on direct sourcing methods to attract passive top talent.
Cohesion have developed a strong relationship throughout the wider business, and provide additional solutions, including: Graduate Recruitment, and experience-hire Medical Recruitment.

Results
- Previously, all roles were filled by agencies. By March 2017 – only 36% of all roles were filled by agencies
- 1 in 2 candidates received offers following the face-to-face interview
- 96% of candidates attended face-to-face interviews
- 1 in 6 vacancies are filled by proactive selection of talent pool candidates
- The average time-to-hire for Nurse vacancies, since March 2016, has been reduced to 32 days
- Nutricia’s talent pool is supplemented and managed by specialists at Cohesion, with candidates being contacted at regular touchpoints, and invited to annual Open Days.
Cohesion’s Relationship with Nutricia
We recently caught up with Kate Angell, Human Resources to get her take on the service they receive from Cohesion: