Executive Search

Our Executive Search practice is separated into four teams. 

Our Board Practice specialises in board evaluation, non-executive appointments and diverse board appointments.

Our Senior Search Team specialises in finding senior executives with salaries ranging between £80k and £200k.

Our Public Sector Practice specialises in appointments for Government Departments, NGOs, Academic bodies and other organisations in the not-for-profit sector.

Our Private Equity Team works with clients in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sectors to place CEOs and senior teams into portfolio companies.

Our Junior Search Team specialises in high fliers with between 2 and 7 years of work experience on salaries between £40 and £80k.

Our success and reputation in Executive Search has been built upon our established methodology that ensures that we are able to match talent quickly and accurately to your needs. The key drivers of this success are:

• Research Capability - at the core of our search process is our programme of continuous investment and improvement in our global and local research. Our Research staff are without fail intelligent, highly analytical, motivated and excellent communicators. They are masters at investigative and creative solutions.
• Long Term Partnership - Our client relationships are true partnerships.  We believe that a long term partnership approach is the best, if not only, way to develop an in depth understanding of your organisation and its requirements. This approach enables us to exploit our creativity to the full and to deliver human capital solutions that add not just talent but also value to key business decisions. 
• Tailored solutions - We recognise that all our clients and our searches are unique. We therefore tailor our solutions to each search to ensure that we deliver an innovative and flexible service that delivers on all your needs.
• Communication - Our focus on measured, concise and timely communication with both our clients and candidates is paramount to a smooth process. It is essential to accurately represent and build your recruitment 'brand' in the marketplace.
      

Talent Pipelines

Research has proven that businesses who get ahead of the curve in recruitment and have proactive processes to develop teams outperform those that are more reactive to individual positions. Our commitment to developing long lasting partnerships with our clients enables us to identify top candidates at all stages of recruitment: not just the leaders of today, but as importantly, tomorrow's general managers, directors and leaders.

An increasing number of clients ask us for a talent pipeline service. Our deep understanding of our clients' businesses helps us to put forward a diverse portfolio of individuals to provide a much strengthened human capital base to your business.
    

MBA recruiting

We have a specific team that focuses on Candidates with MBA's from the top business schools in the UK, Europe and US. Our work in this field is split between on-campus recruiting at business schools as well as moving candidates already in employment.
    

Market Intelligence

Our in depth market knowledge and experience with many businesses puts us in a unique position to provide valuable input into your business decisions. 

Much of this intelligence is a fundamental part of any search assignment. However, in a number of circumstances clients have sought to commission a piece of intelligence work prior to commencing search work. This has included:

• Benchmarking against competitor organisations
• Salary surveys and compensation benchmarking
• Input towards decisions on business structures when influenced by the nature and availabilty of talent
• Market investigation of where talent and experience rests prior to the commissioning of a search assignment