Huggett has worked in corporate talent sourcing and recruitment roles, including at organisations such as PwC, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Lloyds Banking Group and Deutsche Bank. Throughout his career he has rolled out global and local RPO and MSP [managed service] programmes, built out new offices across European locations and successfully managed the transition to IR35 regulations for large contractor books.

Huggett said: “The outsourcing market is huge and the role it plays in global economies is often misunderstood and arguably underrepresented. In the UK in particular, we’re at a pivotal moment when legislative changes could be set to alter outsourcing as we’ve historically known it. 

“I truly believe that this is a critical time when the voice of the sector needs to be heard by core policy decision makers. Providers in the outsourcing market have a significant role to play in ensuring that legislation is fit for purpose for the workers and customers they engage with. That means preventing a blanket approach to legal protections, which history has shown can have a detrimental impact on the highly skilled segment of the workforce,” he went on to say.

Ann Swain, global CEO at APSCo, said: “We are at a crossroads in employment legislation, and together with our global public policy team, APSCo OutSource – under its new leader – will be a driver of positive change.”

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