Client Testimonials

Granite also maintain genuine relationships of value with Clients like me over many years. They practice a working style and tap into talent that connects our business needs with great people and knowledge to help us achieve great things.

I have worked with Granite Consulting services, since their inception, for 14 years and David Webley for considerably longer. My relationship with Granite has been as both a role seeker and role recruiter so I have experienced Granite services from both sides of the fence. Granite's professionalism is reflective of the calibre of clients they represent and the candidates that they present.

Over the last 5 years in my role as Program Director at a leading financial institution, leading 2 significant acquisitions and integrations, I have been able to rely on Granite to provide highly skilled and capable candidates for key roles that have been required as part of key programs of work.

Granite's willingness to listen and understand the operating environment, resulted in targeted resumes required for specified roles and leading to streamlined interview and recruitment process, allowing for timely onboarding.

I have no hesitation in recommending Granite Consulting.

- Program Director, Leading Financial Institution

As part of my role managing the IT Portfolio and supporting our delivery teams with resourcing, managing constraints around time to market and budget, we required support from a recruitment agency that understands our challenges but would also provide us with quality candidates. 

I have always had a great experience in dealing with Granite in previous organisations so when I moved into my role, I contacted Mark Carter at Granite to join our preferred supplier list. Five years later, Granite is still on our preferred supplier list, supporting our IT delivery teams with resourcing on our transformational programs, other projects and temporary BAU resourcing. 

What sets Granite apart is the care and investment in their candidates. This is shown not only by providing them with personal development programs but also by providing support on their general wellbeing, safety on client sites and other programs, ensuring a well-rounded, engaged and committed candidate pool. They also take the time and care in understanding our requirements, saving us time and effort. I highly recommended Granite Consulting.

- Head of Planning, Architecture and Governance

Across 3 transformation portfolios, Granite has been able to augment delivery capability in its entire technology/project skill spectrum.

The collaboration has resulted in over 260 contractors, close to $50m, in those transformation journeys. 

The skills Granite were able to acquire in short notice spans Finance ERP, Logistics and Supply Chain, Payments, Identity, Security and Digital. 

The key reasons Granite Consulting has been a preferred augmentation firm have been

• Real understanding of type of talent required to delivery successful projects
• Attention to culture matching
• Very flexible engagement model, offering good talent in short notice.
• Assist in keeping the contractor workforce engaged

- General Manager, Transformation

I’ve known and worked with David Webley and Granite Consulting for 15years plus, across several major corporate organisations, in my capacity as an executive leading enterprise project offices and portfolio management functions.

David and his team have always garnered the highest respect for the way he engages with clients to ensure delivery of best possible technology and project professionals and services. David and Granite’s collaborative approach ensures strong client centric focus and practices, especially with respect to taking time to truly understand your organisation’s intent, operational status and needs. With that knowledge and understanding, the Granite team develop a strong continuing partnership to determine best possible tailored solutions. Where necessary they are able to pivot to adapt to changes in your needs and can do so readily and without fuss.

I’ve always been impressed with the high regard David exhibits for treating people as people, which he instils in his team. I’ve personally experienced how this translates to maintaining an active and loyal cadre of project and other professionals under their auspices that routinely deliver better performance as a result. In particular their success over a long time of building and maintaining a strong community and active alumni amongst his people, leveraging social events, ongoing competency building, knowledge sharing and health and wellbeing programs as regular services. 

I’d highly recommend consideration of David and Granite for your project and technology resource needs.

- Strategy & Transformation Executive

I began working with Granite since relocating from the UK to Australia in 2013. Granite have been instrumental in helping me build capable delivery teams for the last 10 years.

Granite’s ability to go out of their way to understand the work at hand and to screen the right candidates not only for their technical skills but also their cultural and behavioural fit to my team and wider organisation as helped immensely in the hiring of candidates and the successful delivery of projects.

- Head of Transformation in the Financial Services Industry

I have known the Granite team for circa 5 years, initially as a candidate and then as a client. Throughout that time I have been continually impressed with the depth of their understanding and their interest in the businesses they are supporting as well as their candidate talent pool. As a candidate for a senior role, I was personally well supported by David Webley and others in the Granite Consulting team, who were able to understand and articulate the needs of the hiring business and supported me with the information, background and context to be successful. Their approach, knowledge of the candidate/business fit and level of time invested was a key differentiator to other agencies who often do not invest, understand or undertake as much research to accurately match candidates to open roles.

As a client of Granite, I similarly found that the candidates put forward had been carefully and rigorously selected from an obviously deep talent pool, and were vetted for both technical and soft skills to ensure fit. Many of the candidates put forward had a long term relationship with Granite ensuring a holistic view of the candidates’ suitability for roles they were put forward for. Granite Consulting further has an extended pool spanning all the common project delivery functions and roles and were agile and quick to support requests for augmentation resources across all of these role types. In my experience, the Granite team clearly helped prepare their candidates, not just for the interview and selection process, but in the lead up to their commencement and through the first weeks and months, thus ensuring a smooth start. This upfront vetting and ongoing support in the critical placement and commencement period was invaluable in reducing costs with the turnover of candidates sourced through Granite generally much lower than via other organisations.

Granite Consulting have also demonstrated an exceedingly high level of commerciality and flexibility. In a prior role managing invoicing and payments, their flexible approach supported rapid candidate onboarding to meet business needs, often in parallel to other commercial processes, enabling business outcomes to be achieved and not held up by less flexible procurement processes. David Webley’s ability to also work flexibly to support other needs such as subcontracting or payrolling of specialist roles not otherwise readily available in market, and other such arrangements, was a key differentiator of the Granite Consulting business.

- Head Of Delivery at an industry-leading Logistics Organisation

I am delighted to offer a recommendation for Granite Consulting, a recruitment and resource augmentation consultancy that has been an exceptional partner for me across several organisations, for over 16 years. I have worked with many firms in this space, and I can confidently say that Granite Consulting stands out.

Throughout our partnership, I have been continually impressed by their deep understanding of the technology industry and unparalleled attention to detail and quality. Granite Consulting has consistently provided consistently high-quality recruitment services and resource augmentation, enabling our organisations to find the right talent for various positions on numerous occasions. Their ability to quickly adapt and understand each organisation's unique recruitment needs sets Granite Consulting apart from others in the industry. They invest the time to deeply understand an organisation's culture, values, and long-term goals to provide candidates that match the requirements perfectly. 

In addition to their recruitment services, Granite Consulting has also provided me with excellent resource augmentation services. They have consistently provided highly skilled resources to supplement our internal teams when needed, helping us to deliver projects on time and within budget. Their commitment to excellence extends beyond recruitment services to strategic partnership. Granite Consulting has consistently provided valuable insights into the latest recruitment trends and strategies and worked closely with us to develop strategies that align with our business objectives. They consistently go above and beyond to ensure that their client's recruitment needs are met. 

Overall, I highly recommend Granite Consulting for any organisation looking for a trusted partner. Their extensive experience in the technology recruitment industry, exceptional recruitment and resource augmentation services, and willingness to engage as a strategic partner make them invaluable asset to any organisation. Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or require further information.

- Chief Information Officer

Approximately 3 years ago, in my capacity as the Head of Human Resources we embarked upon a strategic global search project to appointment 15 key roles. To ensure the best and brightest talent was identified the search was a global search, made particularly difficult as it was conducted during the pandemic. It involved deep market research and analysis including reviews of published and cited work as the majority of these roles were niche roles in very tight and highly contested markets. We have strict D&I requirements and the Talent search model that Granite Consulting developed fulfilled all of these. Possible talent was identified across the globe and from a long list of around 250 we found great talent to fulfill our requirements. Our institution can be a bureaucratic and difficult place to work at times, especially when making $3 million and 20 years decisions on talent. The team at Granite showed great resilience and flexibility to ensure a successful outcome with great attention to detail and service.

On a broader scale our organisation recently (~2.5 years ago) embarked on a major change initiative to re-design the professional service offering across IT, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing and Communications, etc. into a shared service model. During this time there were very aggressive timelines to do the work in an extremely sensitive environment as it was highly visible both internally and externally including complex union consultation. At this time the business didn’t have the capability or capacity internally to complete this program of work and so as the work in to conclusion the Granite team were engaged on a broader scale to take ownership to implement a plan to resource a large number of open positions effecting around 350 people in an eight week period were resolved. This work was done across all the functions mentioned earlier. Granite’s flexibility and ability to work accurately at scale in a high pace, high pressure environment was evident. Although I was not the lead contact on this project I believe the work was completed with great success, on time and on budget.