Allegis Global Solutions, a managed services provider and recruitment process outsourcing firm, named Jessi Guenther as executive director of SIGMA MSP, its new contingent workforce management offering, effective in August. The program supports companies that traditionally rely on preferred supplier relationships or vendor-on-premise for candidate recruitment, targeting small to mid-market companies that spend between $5 million and $50 million annually on contract labor services.

SIGMA launched in August and has signed two clients so far.

Guenther since 2012 has served as executive director of operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Allegis Global Solutions and previously held a number of leadership roles at the company. Based in London, she led Allegis Global Solutions’ strategic direction throughout EMEA and was instrumental in establishing MSP operations across EMEA as well as developing and stabilizing the global MSP solution for a large and complex client. The company is in the process of determining her replacement.

She is included on Staffing Industry Analyst’s 2015 Global Power 100 Women in Staffing list.

Guenther joined talent solutions firm Allegis Group, Allegis Global Solutions’ parent company, in 1997 as a recruiter for Aerotek, holding a number of recruiting, management and organizational development roles before transferring to Allegis Global Solutions in 2004 to serve as a program director for a large portfolio of MSP clients in Milwaukee. She moved to Seattle in 2008 to build and manage one of the most complex MSP clients in the AGS portfolio and played a major role in expanding the business from the US into Canada, Europe and India.

“SIGMA will change the way growing businesses develop and manage their contingent workforce through offering a turn-key MSP solution,” said Steve Schumacher, senior VP of MSP at AGS. “Jessi is the perfect fit for leading SIGMA as she has been integral in driving innovative talent acquisition strategies throughout her tenure at AGS.”

For her new role, Guenther relocated from London to the corporate headquarters in Hanover, Md.