About
Katie Hickman
Founder, BuildIn Talent
BuildIn Talent is led by Katie Hickman, an experienced talent leader with over a decade of experience building high performing teams across multiple industries.
Katie specialises in strategic recruitment, employer branding, and building internal hiring capability, helping businesses attract exceptional talent without relying heavily on recruitment agencies.
Her career spans global tech organisations, recruitment firms, and fast-growing SMEs where she has consistently delivered measurable hiring improvements. She has led recruitment strategies across the UK, Europe, and the United States while working closely with senior leadership teams to design scalable hiring processes.
Katie’s expertise includes:
- Strategic talent acquisition
- Employer branding and candidate attraction
- Building internal recruitment capability
- HR operations and compliance
- Employee engagement and retention
- Data-driven recruitment strategies
In her role as Head of People and Talent, Katie has led the transformation of HR and recruitment strategy, implementing performance metrics, improving hiring processes, and building high-performance teams aligned with business growth.
Previously, Katie worked as Global Talent Acquisition Manager for a global SaaS company, where she led hiring initiatives across multiple markets and significantly improved recruitment metrics including time-to-hire, quality of hire, and employer brand engagement.
Throughout her career, Katie has consistently delivered results by combining data-driven recruitment strategies with practical HR leadership, helping organisations build teams that drive long-term success.
We are Buildin Talent
About BuildIn Talent
BuildIn Talent was founded to solve a problem many growing businesses face: recruitment that is expensive, reactive, and overly reliant on agencies.
We believe hiring should be a strategic capability inside your business, not something outsourced every time you need a new employee.
BuildIn Talent partners with ambitious SMEs to help them hire better, spend less, and build teams that actually last.
Our approach combines modern recruitment strategy, employer branding, and practical HR expertise to help organisations attract the right people while reducing recruitment costs and improving retention.
Whether you’re scaling your business, struggling to find the right candidates, or looking to reduce agency fees, we help you build a sustainable, in-house hiring engine.
Trusted Talent Infrastructure
Building sustainable hiring capability, not dependency
At BuildIn Talent, we believe recruitment should be something your business can confidently manage internally not something you have to outsource every time you grow.
Our approach focuses on building the infrastructure, processes, and capability that allow organisations to attract and hire great people consistently.
Rather than charging recruitment fees for every hire, we work alongside leadership teams to design hiring systems that become part of the business itself.
The result is a more sustainable approach to talent — one built on strategy, structure, and long-term capability.
Built on Real Hiring Experience
Make contact
Let’s Talk
If you're looking to strengthen your hiring capability or reduce reliance on recruitment agencies, I’d love to hear from you.
Whether you have a specific challenge or just want to explore how BuildIn Talent could support your business, feel free to get in touch.
📧 KT@buildintalent.com
+447719301278
Buildin Talent
Interested in building a stronger hiring capability within your organisation?
Telephone: +447719301278
E-mail: KT@buildintalent.com