ADA Recruitment & Talent
We help Midlands businesses find the people they need to move forward.
Independent. Founder-led.
ADA was founded by Alison Dutton, who brings more than 25 years’ experience across recruitment, business leadership, client relationships and business transformation.
You get the judgement of someone who has led recruitment at senior level, with the personal service, responsiveness and flexibility of an independent agency.
About ADAOur point of view
Recruitment isn’t about sending more candidates. It’s about making better matches.
So we take time to understand your business, the vacancy, the team, the culture and what success in the role actually looks like.
We listen. We keep you informed. And we only introduce candidates we believe are worth meeting, rather than sending CVs to look busy.
We use technology and AI where they make recruitment better and more efficient, but the relationship, the conversations and the judgement stay with people.
For businesses
Whether you're growing, replacing someone who's leaving, strengthening your team or simply need the right person for a business-critical role, we start by understanding what you actually need — not by searching a database.
A job description only tells part of the story. The better we understand the whole picture, the better the match, and the fewer CVs you have to read.
For roles that are part of your longer-term plans. We handle the search from brief to offer: understanding the role, researching the market, approaching and assessing candidates, arranging interviews and supporting both sides through to offer and acceptance.
You see a focused shortlist of people worth meeting, each with a clear reason why.
For when you need cover or extra capacity: a busy period, a project, a period of absence, or while a permanent appointment is made. We match people to the work and to your team, not just to the dates.
Not sure whether a role should be permanent or temporary? We’ll talk it through with you.
Who we work with
We work mainly with SMEs of around 10 to 250 employees, across Coventry, Warwickshire, Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. Usually they’re hiring because the business is moving forward.
We’re not limited to these sectors. What matters most is understanding your business and where it’s heading.
Our expertise
We don’t recruit anything for anyone. We focus on eight professional and business areas, on a permanent and temporary basis, where we know what good looks like.
Finance people who give a growing business control and clear numbers to make decisions with.
Typical roles: accounts assistants, purchase and sales ledger, credit control, payroll, assistant and management accountants, finance managers, financial controllers.
People who win new customers, look after existing ones and protect the margin on every deal.
Typical roles: business development, account managers, internal and field sales, sales support, estimators, commercial and sales managers.
The people who keep the business running smoothly day to day, and scale it as it grows.
Typical roles: operations coordinators, supervisors and managers, planners, customer service and contract managers, continuous improvement roles.
Buying, planning and logistics roles that keep materials moving and customers supplied.
Typical roles: buyers and purchasing managers, procurement specialists, supply chain and logistics coordinators, material planners, inventory controllers.
People professionals who help a growing business hire well, develop its people and keep them.
Typical roles: HR administrators and advisors, HR business partners and managers, recruitment coordinators, learning and development roles.
The organised, dependable people that every department relies on.
Typical roles: administrators, office managers, receptionists, customer service advisors, sales and operations administrators.
Trusted, discreet support for directors, owners and leadership teams.
Typical roles: personal assistants, executive assistants, team and office coordinators, board and governance support.
Marketing people who understand how a growing business wins and keeps customers.
Typical roles: marketing assistants and executives, digital and content marketing, marketing managers, marketing and communications roles.
How we work
We start with your business: what you do, where it’s heading, the team the person will join and what success in the role looks like.
We do our homework on the market and the people in it, and look beyond whoever happens to be applying.
We only put forward people we believe are worth meeting, and we tell you why.
You’ll always know where things stand. We do what we say we’ll do, when we say we’ll do it.
What to expect
These are the standards we hold ourselves to with every client and every candidate.
Talk to us about a vacancy
A few details are enough to start. We’ll come back to you to talk it through properly.
We’ll take you through our terms of business before any work begins, so you know exactly how we work and what it costs.
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For candidates
Before we talk about roles, we want to understand you: your experience, your ambitions, your circumstances and what you’re looking for next.
We recruit for specific roles on behalf of our clients, so we can’t promise a job to everyone who sends us their CV. What we can promise is that we’ll only contact you about roles we think are genuinely relevant to you.
Send us your CV
Share a few details and your CV. We’ll be in touch to arrange a proper conversation if we think we can help.
Prefer email? Send your CV to alison@weareada.co.uk.
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About ADA
ADA Recruitment & Talent is an independent, founder-led recruitment business, set up to combine significant recruitment and business experience with a more personal, responsive and commercially aware approach.
Businesses need the right people for all sorts of reasons. You may be growing, replacing someone who’s leaving, strengthening a team or bringing in skills you don’t currently have. Whatever the reason, you don’t need a stream of CVs, or to explain your business three times to three different consultants. You need someone who takes the time to understand what you do, where you’re heading and what the right person looks like, and then only introduces people worth meeting.
That’s what ADA is built to do.
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The founder
Founder & Director
Alison has more than 25 years’ experience in recruitment and business leadership, working at senior and director level across recruitment operations, client relationships, people leadership and business transformation.
Having been part of senior leadership teams herself, Alison understands recruitment from both sides of the table. She understands the commercial realities businesses face, the importance of getting key hires right and the impact the right person can have on a team and a business.
ADA brings that experience directly to Midlands businesses. When you work with ADA, you deal with someone who understands recruitment, understands business and takes responsibility for getting it right. Call or text 07515 325542, or email alison@weareada.co.uk.
Contact
Hiring, thinking about your next role, or just want an informed view of the market? Get in touch. You’ll hear back from a person, not an automated system.
