Adzuna, the smarter job search engine, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kit Glover as Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately. Kit joins Adzuna to help drive the business through its next phase of growth.
Kit is a seasoned leader with significant experience working in marketplace and recruitment businesses. He was most recently UK Managing Director at Coople, one of Europe's largest on-demand staffing platforms, where he re-focused the commercial strategy and helped to professionalise the sales and operations functions leading to rapid growth.
Prior to Coople, Kit spent 6 years at eBay working closely with its seller community in his role as Senior Director. His career also includes tenures as a start-up founder, a VC associate, and a consultant as well as a degree from Nottingham in Industrial Economics and an MBA from INSEAD.
Kit will lead Adzuna’s commercial and marketing teams and will work on growing and scaling Adzuna, as the company focuses on helping millions of job seekers into new roles as the world gets back to work after the global pandemic. He will manage Adzuna’s overseas offices in Indianapolis (US) and Sydney (Australia), as well as leading and building on existing relationships with programmatic agencies, job boards like Totaljobs and Reed, and direct employers.
Smarter job search engine Adzuna helps tens of millions of job seekers to access more than 12 million jobs each month across 16 markets internationally. Its mission is to use the power of technology to match people to better, more fulfilling jobs and keep the world working. Adzuna provides job seekers access to almost every available online job listing in a single site so they can cut through the noise, zero in on the right role faster and land the right job.
Since its inception in London in 2011, Adzuna has developed unique, AI-powered tools and salary statistics to empower job seekers and employers alike. Cutting edge tools like ValueMyCV help guide job seekers on their market value so they can earn what they’re actually worth. Meanwhile, Adzuna’s proprietary matching technology and programmatic delivery capability helps employers to acquire, qualify and match the right candidates to fill positions quickly.
The job search engine also runs ‘Find a job’, the UK Government’s online job board and one of its most used online services, as well as powering the Office for National Statistics’ labour market indices, which track the labour market recovery on a weekly basis and have been critical in monitoring the impact of the pandemic on jobs and the economy.
Doug Monro, CEO and co-founder of job search engine Adzuna, comments: "Kit’s appointment further strengthens our senior leadership team and I am delighted to see him bring his marketplace and recruitment acumen to Adzuna. He will be an integral part of the team as we continue to grow and scale.”
Kit Glover, CCO of Adzuna, comments: “As the world recovers from the global pandemic and companies hire at pace in a new world of work, Adzuna’s mission to help people find better and more fulfilling jobs is more critical than ever. I’m excited to help the team continue expanding to reach tens of millions more job seekers and employers.”
