CASE STUDY
HOLLAND & BARRETT
H&B was bought for £1.8bn by a private equity firm in 2017, with a plan to move from a traditional high street store to a global ecommerce giant within the health and wellbeing space.
Historically, as a business H&B’s tech presence had relied solely on an outsourced model, with deliverables and projects split predominantly across, vendors, consultancies, and white-labeled solutions.
Troi was brought in specifically to support the creation of a new in-house technology function, and through our embedded talent model allowing H&B to compete and surpass organisations in the wider ecommerce space.
On This Project
Average Annual Savings
£2,100,000
*based on 20% agency rate
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Project Length: 2 years |
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Average Monthly Hires: 24 |
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Business Size: Enterprise
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Hiring Seniority:
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Key Hiring Areas
Back End:
Java 12+, Kotlin, Go, Spring Boot, Microservices, Docker, AWS, K8’s, Kafka
Front End:
React, Redux, Typescript, Graphql, D3js, Gatsby, React-Three-Fibre
Mobile:
React Native, Kotlin
Product Management & Design
Cloud Infrastructure
We have worked with H&B for over 2 years now and have become a much valued part of their Talent operations. We have gone from an individual to a team of 5 and the results achieved have been beyond expectations. There has been a huge cost saving versus using agencies and most importantly for us we’ve been able to provide a consistently high level of service throughout our tenure. At H&B we’ve provided leadership and oversight, helping build a team and robust structure for H&B’s future.
Tim Chattaway – Talent Director Troi