Lucy Bennell began her career in recruitment in the early 90’s working for a medium-sized business, where she was responsible for opening many new markets, before joining Korn Ferry Futurestep in 2000 where she was able to learn from and work alongside professionals on a global basis.
Lucy established Bennell Associates in 2002 with the goal of working closely with her network to deliver flexible customer-facing end-to-end recruitment programmes across procurement.
In 2021, Lucy joined VireUp (AI-powered interview technology business) as a Strategic Advisor. VireUp’s proprietary AI tech enables companies to interview thousands of job applicants against pre-agreed, professional competency/skills-based questions against multiple identical criteria to concept level.
“Lucy’s obvious passion and experience comes through in abundance. The qualities she possesses are sadly not often associated with the recruitment industry; honesty, openness and commitment to deadlines. The most valuable of all is that she actually listens! I recommend her highly.”
CEO – FTSE 100
“Lucy combined professionalism in understanding my career aspirations and also the ‘personal touch’ in a genuine desire to keep me updated and get answers to all my questions”. I can highly recommend her approach to recruitment…”
VP Procurement – Multi-national FMCG
“Bennell Associates have delivered great service, great candidates and lots of fun”
Procurement Director – Own Lable Food Manufacturing
“…has proven to be successful time & again at targeting & securing the best talent.”
“…a refreshingly frank & open style to recruitment, that appears to appeal as much to the candidates as to the client.”
Director – Procurement Outsourcing and Consultancy
“Lucy is completely flexible in her approach to an assignment. Flexibility ranging from her communication during the assignment, through to fee structure. It is extremely refreshing to find a search consultant who costs an assignment based on the work involved, rather than on a standard ‘one third’ fee.”
HR Director – High-Tech