s360

Transforming Talent Acquisition to Support Long-Term Agency Growth

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Overview

s360 is one of Europe’s leading digital growth consultancies, helping ambitious brands accelerate performance across ecommerce, digital marketing, analytics and customer acquisition.

After experiencing inconsistent recruitment results and challenges securing high-quality talent through multiple recruitment providers, s360 partnered exclusively with Cranberry Panda to support its growth ambitions.

Over the course of a four-year partnership, Cranberry Panda helped build teams across multiple specialist disciplines, significantly improving hiring outcomes whilst supporting the agency’s continued expansion.

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The Challenge

Prior to partnering with Cranberry Panda, s360 faced challenges attracting and securing the specialist talent required to support its ambitious growth plans.

As a fast-growing agency operating in a highly competitive talent market, securing the right people was critical to maintaining growth and delivering exceptional client outcomes.

The business needed a recruitment partner capable of:

Delivering consistently high-quality candidates

Reducing time-to-hire

Improving long-term hiring success

Supporting multiple specialist disciplines

Scaling hiring across all levels of the organisation

Our Approach

Cranberry Panda became s360’s exclusive talent partner, working closely with leadership teams to understand hiring requirements, cultural expectations and long-term business objectives.

Our approach included:

  • Dedicated talent partnership model
  • Specialist digital and ecommerce talent mapping
  • Market intelligence and benchmarking
  • Ongoing workforce planning support
  • Executive and specialist search
  • Employer brand and candidate attraction support

Rather than treating each role as an isolated assignment, we focused on building a scalable recruitment framework capable of supporting sustained growth across the organisation.

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Results

Over the course of the partnership, Cranberry Panda delivered:

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Hires across: Paid Media, SEO, CRM, Creative, Ecommerce, Strategy, Analytics, Commercial

Improved

Hiring Efficiency - Reduced average time-to-hire from 4 months to 1 month

Improved

Hiring Quality - Increased probation pass rates from 40% to 90%

Multi-Level

Delivery - Successfully placed talent from Executive through to Director level

Commercial Impact

Our partnership extended beyond recruitment delivery.

Through our network within the ecommerce and consumer sector, Cranberry Panda introduced what became one of s360’s largest revenue-generating client relationships: a global fashion brand.

This demonstrated the value of a true strategic partnership built around growth rather than transactional recruitment.

Impact

The partnership helped create a stronger, more scalable talent acquisition function capable of supporting rapid business growth.

By improving hiring quality, reducing recruitment timelines and strengthening specialist capabilities across the organisation, Cranberry Panda played a key role in supporting s360’s continued expansion.

As the business grew, it ultimately became part of a larger 300-person European agency group, further demonstrating the scale of growth achieved during the partnership.

“You've helped us place close to 10 people and our hiring success rate has jumped from 40% to 85%. I know we're as picky as you can get with hiring, but I feel like we've come a long way since we started working together and the team you've helped us build is impressive. Thank you for all the hard work.”

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