Joel Stevenson

VP of Financial Planning and Analysis
Wayfair

As Managing Director of Wayfair.co.uk, Joel Stevenson is responsible for the growth and profitability of the site which offers a market leading selection of everything for the home to suit all styles and budgets.

Joel joined Wayfair in 2009, based in Boston, United States, where he was responsible for Wayfair.com’s Home Improvement division which more than doubled under his leadership, generating annual revenues of over $100 million USD. Prior to joining Wayfair Joel held a variety of sales, marketing and consulting roles in the technology industry.

Joel has an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois and studied Chinese at Harvard-Beijing Academy.

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Day 3

Sunday, December 6th, 2015

12:40 Attracting, Developing & Retaining High Quality Talent Amidst Skill Shortages & Employees Being Set On Contracting

How Do You Upskill & Train Staff? How Do You Persuade People To Come Onboard Permanently? In the twelve years since its inception Wayfair has grown to well over 1500 employees in 8 offices around the world. In the process Wayfair has been recognized numerous times for excellence in human resource management including being named one of the top 20 companies to work for by Glassdoor in 2012. In his talk, Joel will describe the Wayfair culture and why it is the driving force behind talent acquisition and retention. He will also describe how Wayfair built it's HR systems from the ground up to support its growth cost-effectively and how those systems are being used today. Some further points covered in Joel’s talk: • What is the “smell of the place” and how do you nurture and protect it • How do you balance employee and company led development • What we look for in inexperienced hires • Feedback from our British employees about working in an American versus British company