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Geoff has nearly 30 years’ experience in general management and board recruitment with a network of contacts that stretches across the UK. His experience encompasses listed, privately owned, and consultancy firms and he currently heads up the business’s Supply Chain & Logistics division.
Julian has developed a niche and extensive network within the corporate functions of the Plc market, from AIM to the FTSE100.
Nick specialises in executive level finance appointments for privately owned and PE backed businesses as well possessing many long-standing relationships with large listed groups for senior level recruitment.
Board composition and effectiveness are critical to the success of every organisation. Aligning skills, culture and objectives is fundamental to the process of creating an effective and diverse Board.
Directors are currently under the spotlight from employees, customers, regulators and investors to promote best practice (including sustainability and diversity) whilst achieving commercial success and maintaining regulatory compliance in an increasingly complex digital world.
For more than 20 years we’ve helped many businesses recruit and develop their leaders. Our clients trust us because we know what good looks like and what it takes to lead. We believe in meritocracy, diversity and wherever possible promoting people internally to create cohesive and high performing teams.
We have previously worked with clients to recruit for a variety of Executive & Board roles including:
The demands placed upon finance functions are increasingly complex and require a variety of skills in systems development, risk management & compliance, people management, mergers & acquisitions, capital & business planning, investor relations, tax, and financial planning & analysis. All of this must be done cost effectively and sometimes under the watchful eye of the financial regulators.
We are experts in Identifying and recruiting high calibre qualified professionals that can add true value to your team. As importantly, we understand the dynamics of this increasingly competitive market where the best candidates are scarce and buy backs are common.
Utilising our unique search process of proactively identifying, tracking and approaching superior quality individuals and engaging with them throughout their career we give you the opportunity to secure the best professionals in the industry. Our approach delivers time and time again for our clients, which has allowed us to develop long term relationships with a cross section of Listed, PE backed and Independent businesses across the UK. Our market specialisms include the following:
Julian has developed a niche and extensive network within the corporate functions of the Plc market, from AIM to the FTSE100.
Nick specialises in executive level finance appointments for privately owned and PE backed businesses as well possessing many long-standing relationships with large listed groups for senior level recruitment.
Paul has developed a good network within PE and Consultancy firms and specialises in executive level finance appointments for privately owned and PE backed businesses.
Geoff has nearly 30 years’ experience in general management and board recruitment with a network of contacts that stretches across the UK. His experience encompasses listed, privately owned, and consultancy firms and he currently heads up the business’s Supply Chain & Logistics division.
The logistics industry currently finds itself in a state of rapid evolution, with major erosion of margins and surging cost pressures creating an increasing need for innovation. Gaining competitive advantage has never been more difficult and many organisations have focused on growth through acquisition whilst others have turned to private equity investment to help boost their development. Further to this, systemisation of the industry has led to an increasing demand for robotics and automation equipment to drive even greater efficiency and return on time.
It is no longer enough to be a high quality operator. Employers are increasingly in need of more highly commercial and cerebral leaders with an ability to drive change. With the attraction of top talent in to the industry still proving a challenge, there is a finite pool of people that can deliver substantial value.
Our expert knowledge of the industry coupled with our unique search methodology gives our clients access to those elusive individuals. For over twenty years we have been helping large organisations and SMEs in the industry build highly successful teams to carry them forward.
We have an extensive reach across the following logistics sectors:
Due to ever changing consumer demands supply chain functions face a growing list of priorities. This ranges from the fundamentals of getting products to the end consumer, through to staying abreast of modern digital trends and creating supply chain transparency. Innovation has never been more important.
Supply chain teams have grown from being seen purely as a cost centre to playing an integral role in the ability of a business to provide an added value product or service for their customers. As such the demand for talented supply chain professionals has grown over the last few years, and the market for top candidates is extremely competitive.
We understand that to be successful in the supply chain industry you need to have more than analytical skills. You must have a wider understanding of the business and market you are operating in. Taking a holistic approach to all aspects of your work and collaborating with multiple functions at once. The ability to lead change and influence senior stakeholders is a rare skillset in a highly analytical industry, however we consistently help our clients to find and secure these individuals across a variety of sectors including the following:
Geoff has nearly 30 years’ experience in general management and board recruitment with a network of contacts that stretches across the UK. His experience encompasses listed, privately owned, and consultancy firms and he currently heads up the business’s Supply Chain & Logistics division.
Geoff has nearly 30 years’ experience in general management and board recruitment with a network of contacts that stretches across the UK. His experience encompasses listed, privately owned, and consultancy firms and he currently heads up the business’s Supply Chain & Logistics division.
Michele has 20 years’ experience in accountancy recruitment across the UK. She is renowned for her tenacious approach and has developed relationships with many of the leading Investment Management & Consultancy firms.
Paul has developed a good network within PE and Consultancy firms and specialises in executive level finance appointments for privately owned and PE backed businesses.
The consulting and advisory market is an ever fast moving & changing environment with many new specialist boutiques established each year to challenge some of the most established brands in business. More recently the changing regulations of listed markets has resulted in increasing barriers to cross selling services and some significant restructurings of larger firms. Whilst firms targeting independent business owners are attempting to increase cross selling which has resulted in some mergers between financial advisory services and professional services firms.
Competition for the best people is this space at its fieriest with the desire to recruit and retain key people being universal irrespective of whether you are an investment management firm, management consultancy, accountancy firm, boutique, legal practice or private equity/venture capital firm.
Utilising our unique search process of proactively identifying, tracking and approaching superior quality individuals and engaging with them throughout their career we give you the opportunity to secure the best professionals in the industry. This along with our expertise and understanding of the various disciplines means that we are fantastically placed to support you within the following:
01. We aim to have a positive influence on everyone we engage with.
02. Our consultants are established specialists with extensive market knowledge and our services give our clients and candidates a competitive advantage.
03. We invest substantial resources building relationships with top performing individuals in advance of being engaged on an assignment.
04. It is usually a combination of investing time in personally getting to know the longer-term aspirations of candidates and then putting a career enhancing opportunity in front of them that generates engagement from the higher performing candidates in the market.
05. Our search process produces balanced and diverse short lists that maximise the chance of finding the best person from a diverse candidate pool.
06. We have assisted many candidates in gaining access to opportunities and enhanced career progression through our careers advisory service.
07. We complete assignments with top performing candidates that go on to achieve promotions within our clients. Over two thirds of people we have placed below board level have been promoted within that client.
08. Our placements last. We can provide examples of people we placed at board level in 1999 who were still on those boards 20 years later.
09. We have been doing this for more than 20 years and have an extensive network of clients and candidates who will testify that our service meets and often exceeds expectations.
10. We are so confident in the quality of our service that we offer a 12 month guarantee with our retained search service.
Contact us today to learn more about us, current assignments, or to discuss your unique requirements.