Bench by Outsized
Bench by Outsized: Fully vetted, always-on talent pools for the skills you need
Experience total talent flexibility with Bench by Outsized. Seamlessly scale your workforce with top-tier, pre-vetted independent talent pools tailored to your needs. Move from reactive hiring to a proactive, always-on model with the right skills, exactly when you need them.
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Here's how Bench will transform your talent strategy
Bench by Outsized is a strategic asset allowing you to ramp capabilities up and down in-line with business demand. It allows you to fill critical skills gaps, quickly test and build new capabilities, execute critical projects and drive innovation in your organisation.
- Build an ecosystem of talent curated around your specific requirements.
- Move away from a fixed, inflexible workforce model to a dynamic approach that leverages independent talent.
- Create a scalable model that meets your immediate needs but also helps you re-think how you build capabilities for the future.
Your Bench comes pre-loaded with top independent talent across critical skills areas. Get additional talent pools, built for your unique needs
Fundamentally shift your talent strategy with a flexible, on-demand workforce that drives efficiency and innovation. Bench offers curated expertise, cost efficiency, and the depth and breadth to ensure availability when you need it—all designed to create agility in your business. Tap into pre-vetted pools of skilled independent professionals in high-demand areas, and request new talent pools curated specifically for your organisation’s unique needs.
Pre-loaded, fully vetted talent pools
Bench comes with ready-made talent pools across critical skills areas. The pools differ by geography and sector, but what they all have in common is that the talent are thoroughly vetted, and there is the necessary depth and breadth to guarantee availability as and when you need it.
Request additional, bespoke talent pools
The real magic happens when we build bespoke talent pools for your Bench. Based on your skills and location needs, we curate and prune your Bench across the areas that are most important to you, so you can quickly adapt the capabilities at your disposal and flex up and down as needed. Total talent agility, with the necessary quality and availability assurance.
Cost-effective, future-ready talent models
Bench helps reduce spend, lead times, and the risk associated with traditional hiring. There’s no need to maintain a full-time workforce for every skillset or resource teams for peaks, only to later see them underutilised. Instead, pay for the talent you need, when you need it, with the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing demand. Bench is your future workforce, delivered today.
How we built bespoke digital financial services talent pools for Oliver Wyman’s Bench
We partnered with Oliver Wyman to build bespoke talent pools of independent digital financial services specialists for their Bench. These pre-vetted pools allowed them to scale quickly, meeting the demands of their projects with flexibility and precision, all while maintaining cost-efficiency.
Bench enables true talent agility by combining pre-built talent pools and adding your bespoke, fully vetted and unique pools
Your Bench comes pre-loaded with up to five talent pools in high-demand skills areas, plus independents you’ve worked with through Outsized. Every independent in these pools has been thoroughly pre-vetted for skills, and there is depth to ensure availability at any time. Talent pools differ by region to reflect common use cases.
Tech & Digital
Change Management
Marketing
Data
Strategy & Commercial
Your Previously Used Talent
Bench by Outsized: A complete on-demand ecosystem of talent capabilities, all at a cost less than one junior employee
Core
FREE
- Client portal
- Up to 5 pre-built, fully vetted talent pools across high-demand skills area
- 1 additional talent pool of all independent talent previously engaged through Outsized
- Coming soon: Invite other independents you’ve worked with to join your talent pool for easy management
Enterprise
USD 15k p.a.
All features from Core, plus:
- Up to 5 additional, bespoke talent pools
- Dedicated Talent Community Manager
- Talent insights e.g rates, skills, availability, demand vs supply
Enterprise Pro
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All features from Enterprise, plus:
- Unlimited number of bespoke talent pools in your Bench
- First access to new talent in Core
Only the top handpicked talent makes it onto a Bench.
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Danish Ahmad
Supply chain consultant with 11 years of experience in operations excellence, business transformations, digital transformation, GTM, business analysis, operations diagnosis, program management, and other strategy engagements.
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Leo Ma
An experienced Management Consultant specialising in operating model design and transformations across the financial services and transportation sectors. Proficient in fostering collaboration and achieving exemplary results, his expertise extends to strategic value creation, digital innovation, and multi-channel distribution ventures.
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Hester Mostert
Seasoned financial industry expert with over a decade of experience, specializing in compliance, portfolio management, and client services. With a track record of driving significant growth and ensuring regulatory compliance, she has spearheaded numerous successful projects, resulting in increased returns and client satisfaction.
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Shalini Chhabra
Shalini is an experienced banker with more than two decades of experience in risk management. She has managed a variety of portfolios, including large corporate clients, inter-bank transactions, small and medium-sized enterprises, financial institutions such as mutual funds and insurance companies, government and public sector undertakings, and structured finance transactions such as supply chain financing and factoring.
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Hardik Joshi
Hardik is an experienced business development consultant focused on commercial cards with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry for over 13 years. He is skilled in Hedge Funds, Credit Cards, International Trade, international sales, and business-to-business.
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Sara Zanichelli
Strategy & digital transformation professional, with over 15 years of experience in leading projects across Europe, Middle East, and Asia and 3 years in managerial roles in a pioneer agile organisation. Expertise in retail, corporate banking, and insurance sectors.
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Rohit Peddinti
Rohit is a result-driven project manager with over 8 years of experience diagnosing various problems in varied project environments and ideating solutions. He has delivered projects worth $ 475M in steel, energy, FMCG, healthcare, education and IT industries and has the capacity to lead multi-disciplinary teams and develop a strong relationship with key stakeholders of designated clients
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John Boet
John is a fintech expert with 20 years of experience in product development, system design, and business analysis. His proficiency lies in creating comprehensive solutions for CRM, fund tracking, and market data applications accommodating a diverse range of financial instruments
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Cetrin Indah
Experienced Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology, services and payments industries. Skilled in business planning, product development, product management, internal audit, and financial accounting.
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Mfanafuthi Khumalo
Functional QA Test Analyst with over 19 years of experience, specialising in quality assurance, UAT, Salesforce, and CRM. Expertise in Salesforce projects, boasting over a decade of hands-on experience in the field. His proficiency spans various domains, from coordinating with stakeholders to conducting thorough system integration testing and regression testing, consistently ensuring the successful delivery of projects.
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Chris Nezar
An independent consultant with more than 17 years of experience in data and business intelligence. Strong focus on data analytics, strategy, and visualization, with extensive experience in BI architecture & design, information systems management, business analytics, data mining, and statistical analysis.
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Marvin Vollenhoven
Seasoned BI Analyst with a wealth of experience spanning 25 years in the IT industry. With a passion for data and extensive expertise in areas such as ETL development, data integration, and visualization, he excels in providing actionable insights to stakeholders across various industries.
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Daryl Mark
Daryl is an experienced strategy consultant specialising in corporate strategy development, business case development, target operating model design, and project implementation across the insurance, payments, education and TMT sectors.
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Anmol Bansal
A strategy consultant with six years of experience who specialises in cost optimization, process improvement and creating go-to-market (GTM) and growth strategies for various industries. He has delivered high-impact solutions and elevated the profile of business operations through end-to-end project management and collaborative teamwork.
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Mina Marcos
Mina Morcos is a seasoned marketing professional with over 10 years of experience in digital marketing and fintech. Proficient in business planning, media buying, digital marketing analysis, strategy implementation, and website development, he excels in innovating campaigns and driving organisational change
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Vasant Srimanothip
Independent strategy consultant with experience working on a broad range of projects, including commercial due diligence for private equity clients, as well as strategic engagements with large corporates across various sectors such as education, insurance, healthcare, facilities management, and retail.
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Yash Patel
Yash is an experienced business strategist with expertise in sales, GTM strategy, brand building and growth. He is adept in providing leadership and management that results in high-impact consumer-focused products.
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Shatakshi Singh
Shatakshi is a certified Project Management Professional with experience leading project management offices and digital transformation initiatives in various sectors, including banking, consulting, insurance, and technology. She has extensive expertise in change management, process optimisation, programme governance, and Agile methodologies.
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Shaurya Shukla
Independent Consultant with over a decade of experience spanning management consulting, e-commerce, and supply chain management. He has a proven track record of driving significant revenue growth and optimising operational efficiency for leading companies, consistently exceeding expectations through strategic planning and execution.
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Peter Scheffer
A certified agile consultant with experience in implementing large-scale agile transformation and executing program deliveries across various sectors, including financial services, energy, and technology. Peter has delivered projects for ANZ, Oliver Wyman, Shell, Deloitte, and other organisations.
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