Freshminds

OPTA

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The all in one service for consulting firms

Freshminds is delighted to introduce our new talent management service for consulting firms: Freshminds OPTA.

The world of consulting is changing.

It’s changing not just through the ebbs and flows of demand. It’s in the specialised new skill sets being requested too.

To tackle the lack of predictability in demand, consultancy firms are increasingly turning to temporary, freelancer talent. But this comes with risk, administrative pains, and can be costly to manage and run at scale.

Freshminds OPTA is the all-in-one talent management service for consulting firms,

designed to bring clarity, control and ease to managing your extended workforce.

With OPTA, you can:

Take control of your freelance pool

We understand that you may want to build, nurture, and deploy your own trusted network of freelancers. You find them – Freshminds OPTA will manage the rest, from onboarding to payroll, compliance, and insurance.

Manage multiple agency partners

OPTA brings consistency and standardisation to how you manage and engage suppliers, removing complexity and streamlining processes.

Seamlessly tap into Freshminds’ On Demand network

Access a fully curated bench of vetted talent tailored proactively to your sales pipeline and business needs. Guarantee flexible, on-demand support from proven experts when you need extra capacity.

Work with your alumni

We can track former employees and contractors to unlock value from those who already know your business. Reconnect, re-engage, and redeploy trusted talent with ease.

Streamlining

your contingent workforce

Why use Freshminds OPTA?

Whether you're looking to scale quickly, fill niche skill gaps, or adapt to shifting client demands, OPTA ensures you have the right people, ready when you need them.  

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The Freshminds

network

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we work with most of the UK's leading Consulting Firms

4500

pre-screened Strategy and Management Consultants

25

years in the strategy and management consulting space

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Consultants on demand

Freshminds OPTA is a specialised service for consulting firms that has evolved from our Consultants on demand offering. Do you require more bandwidth for projects involving research, analysis, strategy and consultancy? Activating our network of high-calibre individuals, Freshminds' Consultants on demand can shape teams that rapidly respond to your challenge; assembling junior to senior talent that allows your business to move forward.

  • ​Freshminds has been an outstanding partner for our internship recruitment needs, and we are very happy with the service they have provided us for the past 8 years. The team is professional, dedicated and efficient. They understand who we are as a business and what we are looking for in junior talent. Izzy has been incredibly helpful throughout the entire process, including recruitment events, ensuring every detail was taken care of.We highly recommend Freshminds to anyone seeking a reliable and insightful recruitment partner.

    Dee Lenktyte, HR Business Partner , Gleacher Shacklock

  • Freshminds understands fully how we work and our processes. They were able to provide the expertise needed to identify companies that were suitable for our partnership programme.​

    Partnership Manager, Leading Tech Company

  • ​On behalf of the team I would like to thank you for your efforts, your timely input, item tracking, and well-crafted materials. This deal will have quite some impact on us.

    Corporate Development Director, Key Investment

  • ​Freshminds has been working with us at Uber for several years now, providing us with high quality candidates who have gone on to lead impactful workstreams for us. Freshminds are always consultative from the outset, working with us to understand our requirements and cater around them; they are always on hand to deal with escalations and issues in a sensitive and supportive way.

    , Uber Eats

  • Since we started working together in December 2023, Freshminds has demonstrated that they can find and secure brilliant talent for my data engineering team - people who exactly fit our complex brief. ​

    Senior Manager Data Engineering, ASDA

  • ​Thank you so much for all your help. You did a great job understanding a tricky brief and responding to our feedback on candidates to adjust the search pool. We’re very excited about them joining the team and they seem to be too!

    Director of Specialist Delivery, Software Company

  • ​This is a really really great team. I worked with the Consultants on demand division, which really impressed me on all fronts. The process was smooth from beginning to end: I got offered a number of high-calibre client opportunities (well-paid, in my industry, really interesting projects, cool teams) right from the start, and even had support in navigating the tax rules of what it meant to be an independent consultant. ​

    Evelina, Senior Candidate

  • ​I had a great experience working with Freshminds and with Katya in particular. Kat was both professional and kind, being very proactive in guiding me through the entire interview process. I felt supported and well informed the whole way through. Highly recommended! ​

    Jakub, Candidate (Financial Services)

  • ​It was a pleasure working with Freshminds. Their team is professional, warm and responsive. Marija and Sarah made sure I received the right guidance when needed throughout the interview process with the client and even during the project. They offer some really interesting work so I would highly recommend anyone who is interested in contracting to look into Freshminds.

    Lisa, Senior Candidate

  • ​I’ve worked with Dubai and London-based recruiters to fill a vacant role on our investment team. Freshminds offered the most professional service, as well as shared candidates of very high calibre. They captured our requirements for the role and our culture-fit requirements very well and demonstrated care, attention, and elegance every step of the way.

    Head of People, Venture Capital Firm

  • ​The service provided by Freshminds is incredible, from an initial discussion to consultant in the office in under a week.  Not only are Freshminds efficient, they are also extremely accurate, by immediately understanding the brief and the business needs they found the perfect candidate who added value from day one.

    Matt McKevitt, COO, Senzer Pharmaceuticals

  • ​We use Freshminds mainly for large cold calling programmes and transcription as well as translation and research exercises. Freshminds are brilliant at providing us with researcher with very little notice, they are flexible and the work produced is of a high standard. We are continuously looking to use Freshminds more as a team and they are discussed at most project kick offs, especially if a project involves lots of interviews.

    James Campin, Associate, PwC

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