Welcome to The AD Way, a new series that explores how we help our clients, whether they’re simply looking to improve their recruitment pipeline or undergo a larger, specialised recruitment project.
Introducing Lloyds Clinical
The Brief
Lloyds Clinical reached out to us in October 2025 looking for help with relocating a finance team from Lithuania to their new offices in Coventry.
This was a large-scale project that involved building an entirely new finance function, which brought with it it’s own initial challenges.
Firstly, we needed to find a range of candidates with the skills to match different roles, all across a broad range of divisions.
Secondly, the nature of the brief meant that the team was quite junior, meaning culture fit and personality were major considerations.
Finally, we were working to a relatively tight deadline. Whilst the project was briefed in October, we had a hard stop of 19 January, which is when the offices were set to open.
The Project
The project was ran by Kerry Sheerman, our Managing Director of Professional Services, who oversaw the project alongside Tom Shiels, Financial Controller at Lloyds Clinical.
Since this task required recruitment across a large number of disciplines, we assigned three consultants in total, all of whom brought their own knowledge, market insights and network to the project.
This not only ensured we had the required resource to actually execute the project but also meant we were able to deliver a high-quality shortlist to Tom, backed up by a deeper understanding of the local market.
During the recruitment process, we utilised a standardised interview format and scoring matrix, which ensured a level playing field and meant everyone had the same opportunities, whilst also streamlining a potentially arduous part of the process.
We also performed rounds of screening based on ability before the interview stage, meaning the interviews themselves could focus on culture fit and personality, aspects that were arguably more important throughout the project.
As always, every meeting we had with both candidate and client was performed face-to-face, which fostered ongoing communication and allowed us to truly understand potential matches based on culture.
In total, we ended up recruiting for 17 roles across the function, a fantastic effort that was only possible thanks to a streamlined hiring process and great communication from the team at Lloyds Clinical.
Tom had this to say regarding the outcome of the project: “The process worked fantastically, right from the initial briefing. I think the team grasped exactly what we needed, pulled together some shortlists, produced some fantastic brochures and did some initial screening checks to ensure that the standard of candidates we were recruiting were at the right level.
“We had different people from the Alexander Daniels team onsite to manage the coordination of the interviews. (It was) very slick, one day we got through as many as candidates as we could do… it really allowed us to meet those deadlines that we were working to, so yeah, certainly couldn’t praise them highly enough.”