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)

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:

• Experience in Executive Search or Recruitment: Deep understanding of recruitment processes, with a focus on delivery for senior-level roles.
• Organizational Skills: Ability to balance multiple projects and timelines.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, particularly in maintaining client and internal relationships.
• Proactive and Solution-Oriented: Demonstrate a proactive, problem-solving mindset in managing the recruitment function.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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.

• 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 toward a tailored training program that enables 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.

• 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement: TBP is a proud 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.