Why Mark Loucas
Established in 2007, ML Partners has developed deep roots within the payments and banking industry.
A leading name across the deployment and engagement of professional consultants across EMEA, Americas and APAC regions, we have gained exemplary insight into our niche sectors.
To ensure the benefit of this knowledge is delivered to you, we consult to provide expertise you can trust.
OUR TENETS
An unrivalled commitment to quality and trusting relationships, emphasising our “HIP” values we continue to grow our service offering, ensuring our reputation as the ‘go-to’ strategic partner for our clients and partners.
We are committed to being the best we can be, placing our customer at the centre of everything we do.
HONESTY
At ML Partners we believe in the age-old adage, honesty is the best policy.
To uphold our pledge to honesty, we have the courage to ask for help and feedback when needed. We are realistic about what we can and can’t do and are honest to clients, candidates, colleagues and ourselves.
We place honesty at the foundation of all we do, and it is the basis from where we build our relationships.
INTEGRITY
Our ethos at ML Partners is: ‘Deliver what we promise and only promise what we can deliver’. For us, integrity means we do what we say we are going to do, manage expectations through ongoing communication, and are accountable for agreements and deadlines.
We value honesty and consistency in our words and actions so our clients and partners can trust us to get the job done.
We earn trust by living up to our commitments and make decisions that are in the best interest of our company, clients, and candidates.
PERSEVERANCE
We are committed to be the best we can be. In order to achieve this, we place our customer at the centre of everything we do.
We fully commit to consistently delivering on expectations, irrelevant of how hard or tasking the brief is. We go the extra mile to get the job done and give 100% in all that we do and approach everything with a “can do attitude”.
We constantly look to improve ourselves and our service, cultivating our knowledge, skill, and attitudes to achieve excellence.
We are an APSCo Member
Here is why that should be important to you
What is APSCo?
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies is a members only group, established to encourage best practice throughout the candidate sourcing and selection process within recruitment agencies. It is essentially a badge of quality and trust for employees and employers alike.
ML Partners have been an APSCo member since early 2018, however far from all recruitment agencies in the UK are members. Members are referenced with existing clients and candidates, thereby only reputable agencies are accepted as members.
By choosing a recruitment agency that is an APSCo member you can be confident that you are dealing with a professional, well-established and committed company that won’t take any shortcuts
Why should this be important to you?
By choosing a recruitment partner that is an APSCo member you can be confident that you are dealing with a professional, well-established and committed business that won’t take any shortcuts. We do things properly and take pride in the way we source and place candidates.
While you as our client or candidate won’t be dealing with APSCo directly, this is still of great benefit to you. APSCo are giving us access to best practice legal advice and the latest market intelligence – which means reduced risk for you, or your business.
Commenting on the membership, George Flo – Head of Talent explained:
This membership further demonstrates ML’s on-going commitment to excellence and best practice in recruitment. We are delighted to be members and very much look forward to helping to shape what excellence in recruitment look like.
WHY ML?
Acting as trusted advisors to some of the world’s leading banks, fintech’s, payments providers and consultancies, we help businesses grow by offering them a range of strategic services including consultancy and talent management.
“After putting our ‘Head of Emerging Payments’ role for Middle East & Africa out to the PSL for over 2 months, without success, we commissioned ML to assist with the search process. ML certainly impressed us with their approach and output. After qualifying and understanding the requirement, they went on to send 4 very relevant profiles within 2 days (all being headhunts from across the world with the right payments experience). Then, after we interviewed 3 out of 4 candidates, an offer was made and the person subsequently joined the organization. Throughout the engagement, ML was very attentive and professional, adding tangible value to what had been a very difficult search process”.
VP Human Resources – MasterCard
“As a Payment System Consultant, I have been working with ML for seven years. My team and I have been placed to cover several large client migrations in teams sourced significantly by ML. The experience was excellent every time. ML excels at finding high quality resources and placing them with companies in a win-win situation. The collaboration with ML has always been open and professional, based on trust. ”
Dan Bulacu - Payments Consultant
"I just wanted to drop you all a note to say thanks for all your efforts. This is the second time I’ve consulted through ML and you all make the experience so stress-free and easy to handle. I wish more consultancies were like you – you’re number 1 in my list that I want to work with (by a huge margin).”
Mark Goodliff – Contractor
“The requirements were indeed tough! Looking for testing specialists with specific transaction flow / ISO8583 experience. Originally released to 7 agencies on our PSL, with zero success. ML was referred to us, who have now become incremental to our recruitment process with regards to the standard of candidates sent. ML have become the benchmark for standards and service for all other agencies on our PSL”
Resource Manager – Visa Europe
"is always difficult changing from a permanent employee to the world of contracting. I am now on my fourth successive contract placement through ML. It’s rare to have dealings in any business with this sort of commitment and care.”
James Broadbent – Contractor
“As we both know the requirements we gave you and the timelines you had to meet were both very tough. Nevertheless you have brilliantly accomplished this task and contributed a lot to the success of the project. Your expertise in the EFT industry and experience in hiring professionals for this field are outstanding. I look forward to continuing this partnership.”
Resource Manager - Euronet Worldwide
“For my current contract I had a call from ML early in the morning, interview that same afternoon and had the role by dinner! It was most impressive. The most competent recruiter I have come across in 24 years of contracting.”
Mike Crawshaw – Contractor