The Barton Partnership | Executive Search Delivery Lead

Position Title: Executive Search Delivery Lead Functional

Discipline: Central Delivery Function (CDF)

Reporting to: Head of Delivery (Associate Director)

Location: Hybrid (London office Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays)

Are you passionate about delivering top-tier talent to clients and supporting the development of junior colleagues? We are a friendly, hardworking Central Delivery Team in a business that takes its people’s development seriously. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on executive search delivery while supporting the growth of early-career colleagues.

Role: Executive Search Delivery Lead

Objectives:

• Delivering retained search mandates from briefing to completion

•Supporting the development of early-career colleagues, ensuring an efficient, best-practice-driven search process.

Requirements:

1. Experience in Executive Search or Recruitment: Deep understanding of recruitment processes, with a focus on delivery for senior-level roles.

2. Organizational Skills: Ability to balance multiple projects and timelines.

3. Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, particularly in maintaining client and internal relationships.

4. Proactive and Solution-Oriented: Demonstrate a proactive, problem-solving mindset in managing the recruitment function.

Responsibilities:

1. Executive Search Delivery

• End-to-End Search Delivery: Manage the entire executive search process for senior-level roles across Europe, from initial search strategy development to candidate placement.

• Client and Candidate Relationships: Act as a trusted partner to both clients and candidates, ensuring alignment throughout the recruitment process and delivering top-tier talent. Be a role model for inclusivity by supporting clients in building diverse, high-performing teams.

• Market Mapping and Candidate Development: Lead on market mapping exercises and talent identification efforts to ensure a robust pipeline of potential candidates from a broad spectrum of talent, for both current and future roles. Ensure all candidates are treated equitably throughout the recruitment process.

2. Supporting Junior Development

•Mentoring Early-Career Talent: Support the development of junior team members, including Associate Consultants, Senior Associate Consultants, and Consultants. Your role will be central to their career growth and development.

• Training and Development: Work with internal colleagues including L&D to contribute towards a tailored training program that enable team members to master the full recruitment lifecycle (360 skillset), from market intelligence gathering to lead generation and client management.

• Onboarding and Development Plans: Working alongside the Head of Delivery to support the onboarding process for new hires, particularly early-career colleagues, ensuring they understand key processes and are set up for success.

3. Developing a High-Performance Team Culture

•Building a Supportive Environment: Cultivate a culture of inclusivity, where every team member, regardless of gender, disability, neurodiversity, or background, feels valued and empowered to take risks, learn, and grow in their roles. Encourage open dialogue and make reasonable adjustments to support team members’ success.

•Best Practice Leadership: Set the standard for team best practices in recruitment technology and systems (e.g., ATS, Salesforce, LinkedIn). Ensure these are adopted across the team for efficient operations and candidate management.

• Continuous Learning: Encourage ongoing learning and knowledge sharing within the team, staying updated on industry trends and technology development, and ensuring the team applies new insights to drive better outcomes.

About The Barton Partnership

Having been founded in 2007, The Barton Partnership has established itself as the pre-eminent and a multi award-winning, niche, executive recruitment firm providing permanent search and independent consulting services across all aspects of Strategy & M&A, Digital, Data & Analytics, ESG & Sustainability, and Transformation & Change.

We have offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Our clients include FTSE listed and Fortune 500 companies across all sectors/industries; SMEs, Strategic, Innovation & Management Consulting firms (large and boutique), Global Financial Services, Private Equity and Venture Capital organisations. Our network represents talent from Analyst to Partner/MD level across all disciplines and sectors associated with Strategy & M&A, Digital, Data & Analytics, ESG & Sustainability, and Transformation & Change.

Our independent consulting business provides clients with candidates and teams for business-critical projects across Europe, North America and AsiaPac. We maintain a curated global network of more than 5,000 independent Consultants, and in 2022 we ranked Gold for Consulting Networks in the UK’s Leading Management Consultants report by the Financial Times.

The key to our success lies in the experienced talent we have acquired ourselves. Our team consists of industry veterans and former tier-one strategy consultants working alongside sector-specialised experienced recruiters, which gives us a clear and distinct advantage in understanding the needs of the people we work with, whether you are an employer seeking new talent or someone looking for a career change.

TBP is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a global organisation.

Employment at TBP is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of age, race, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.