Registered company: Affirmable Limited (UK company registration number: 14461956)
Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Martin Tanner spent nearly 20 years working across solutions, bids, sales and data within the recruitment, HR Services and Employability / Skills sectors before starting Affirmable in 2024.
Before joining a large employability provider in 2007 he was working for a well-known retail bank providing solutions for customers who had got behind on their credit card payments. Upon joining the employability sector (as an Employment Adviser) he was promoted within a year to the role of Business Manager where he oversaw a large team of advisers supporting long-term unemployed people into sustainable work.
In 2009 he joined the Business Development team, working as part of a team that secured large-scale contract wins for national employability and skills programmes. In 2011 he moved to another company, within the same group, as Head of Bids, where he was responsible for the team writing and winning tenders for large-scale recruitment solutions (worth hundreds of millions of pounds).
In 2014, Martin moved to another leading global recruitment provider as Bid Director, again building and overseeing a team to win substantial mult-million pound contracts. In 2016 he was appointed to lead a joined up central sales team where he successfully built on the success realised by the bid function with multiple transformational new business wins.
Martin additionally held responsibility for the implementation function before being asked to pick up the organisation-wide data strategy to ensure that millions of lines of data was being captured, processed, visualised and interpreted effectively (and in a compliant way) for both internal and external purposes.
In 2024, Martin took the decision to pursue a long-held dream: to establish Affirmable as a business for both software development and consultancy services. This brings to fruition an ambition that Martin has held since he used to write BASIC programmes on his ZX Spectrum as an 8 year old, sending them off to various publishing houses with eager anticipation. Today, Martin continues to work across all aspects of the Affirmable service model and looks forward to engaging with customers new and old.