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Specialists in identifying business and functional leaders in the UK and Western Europe.

Based in the UK and operating across Europe, we have expertise and a broad client base across multiple sectors including Consumer, Financial & Business Services, FMCG & Consumer Goods, Retail, Travel & Leisure, Technology, Life Science and Industrial Manufacturing.

Expertise

Consumer, FMCG & Retail

Business & Professional Services

Industry & Manufacturing

Financial Services & Technology

Case Studies

UK Marketing Director

First Direct

First Direct, a division of HSBC Bank, are a leader in retail financial services and have a brand reputation for customer excellence. bpesearch was instructed by HSBC Group to recruit the UK Marketing Director for First Direct in Leeds. bpesearch have a long standing relationship with the business, appointing the predecessor and also a number of the team. Working with the group Marketing Director for HSBC Chris Pitt this was an incredibly challenging brief on a number of fronts.

The role being based in Leeds, the high calibre of individual required and also a desire to think outside of the usual financial services candidate pool was required. The experience bpesearch have in the location, also our ability to draw from a broad spectrum of sectors allowed us to challenge the brief and go to market with this unique opportunity.

Managing Director

Delicious Alchemy

Delicious Alchemy is a Sheffield based, award winning manufacturer of gluten-free food products. Established in 2006 by Emma Killilea to address the need for quality food options for coeliac’s, the business has grown considerably and is now supplying a wide range of branded and private label products throughout British retail and foodservice accounts.

Our first assignment from Emma was to bring in a new Head of Commercial and we managed to deliver that search in a very short period of time with the successful candidate starting just 2 months after we were first briefed.

The second mandate was to identify a Managing Director to allow Emma to step back from day to day management of the business. This was particularly challenging as we were looking for a lot of experience on a tight budget and the initial contract was only part time.

Sales Director

PZ Cussons

PZ Cussons is FTSE 250 consumer products group and innovator of brands including Imperial Leather, Carex, Original Source, Charles Worthington, Fudge & St Tropez. Successful people at PZ Cussons apply themselves, every day. They work with limited resource; find ways to solve problems and move at pace. They work well together, but take full accountability for their P&L and play to win. It’s an intense, high tempo, high exposure environment with no room to hide behind people or processes.

A fantastic office near Manchester Airport is home to the UK&I as well as the European and Global Headquarters.  The UK&I is a critical cash generator and barometer of success for the group. This undoubtedly provides the team with a fantastic opportunity to shine and develop their careers, but naturally comes with a pressure to perform. All eyes are on the leadership team and they need to thrive in, and cope with, the demands and intensity of the environment. As a long term talent partner to the business, we were given the opportunity to find a Sales Director for the UK&I.

Group Operations Director

SME Manufacturer

We were engaged by the Managing Director of a privately owned £20m manufacturer of plastic components to source a newly created Group Operations Director. The role was primarily to oversee the businesses three manufacturing sites while also taking functional accountability for Quality, HSE, Technical & Supply Chain.

 

I worked with bpesearch as a candidate looking for a role in the Payments and wider Financial Services Sectors. Throughout the process I found them exceptionally professional and thorough in every interaction we had. The team kept in touch both before and after each stage of the search and assessment process, and were very thoughtful in the way they communicated with me – even checking on the little things as well as logistics.

Over the course of a couple of months I found bpesearch was a standout partner across a number of people I was working with to secure my next role. They are true professionals in their industry and I would not hesitate to work with them again in the future, whether that is as a candidate or to help source candidates for a vacancy I had.

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