- Support Compensation & Benefits team to ensure client offering is upper quartile versus sector
- Evaluate recommendations provided by Hay Grading exercise and evidence reasons to challenge
- Educate client seeking to hire someone with “a fresh perspective from outside the sector” on salary and package variations
- Support client considering a new bonus structure regarding key criteria and market expectations
- Build a picture of competitor structures and reporting lines
- Identify and engage with high performers and establish a pool of long term targets before specific vacancies arise
- Evaluate how external talent compares to existing employees
- Help develop a compelling employer brand by understanding the key drivers behind career moves in our client’s sector
Inclusion & Diversity
Businesses and individuals who choose to work with us should expect us to positively promote difference, equality and inclusion. We believe in cultural contribution over culture fit and encourage our clients to consider the positive influence someone can bring to a team or organisation by adding to the culture, not just fitting into the existing one.
We are working hard to disrupt bias and actively encouraging our colleagues and stakeholders to see the points of view of others, to ensure we aren’t only informed by our own perspectives or established views. Better collaboration leads to optimised problem solving and enables us to “search beyond the obvious” in delivering high quality, diverse shortlist to our clients.
Diversity & Inclusion isn’t simply the right thing to do, it makes a real difference. To people, to environments, to businesses and their results.
We are continually evaluating our own performance and acknowledge we still have some way to go in terms of the diversity of our own team. We are committed to addressing this in 2021.
Externally, we’re making real progress placing leaders from under-represented groups and in 2020 we’re delighted to report that 19% were BAME and 48% were women.
In 2020, representation on our shortlists was
44% female and 11% BAME
which increased to
48% female and 19% BAME
in respect of the successful candidates.
Culture, Engagement & Inclusion
We are delighted to have formed a partnership with Compelling Culture and founder Catherine Garrod who works with Business Leaders specifically to improve employee experience and business performance through culture.
Compelling Culture provide simple and deliverable solutions for teams to adopt every day, companywide strategy and everything in between. Their success is built on inspiring & engaging people throughout an organisation to get involved, whether they are at the start of their journey or looking at taking things to the next level.
Prior to founding Compelling Culture, Catherine led Sky to be awarded the most inclusive employer in the UK and before that, she helped UK Power Networks become the first utility recognised by the Sunday Times Best Companies. Catherine knows what works and just as importantly, where energy, time and money is wasted. She’s has been described as a “marvel” and a “force to be reckoned with” and we are extremely proud to be partnering Catherine and recommending her to our clients.
You can find out more here or contact any of the team at bpesearch for an introduction to Catherine.
On-Boarding & Executive Coaching
We are extremely proud to have developed a partnership with Open Reflexion, a leading Executive Coaching company led by Annie Sullivan and Lynn Watkinson.
Open Reflexion offer a range of executive coaching programmes tailored to deliver measurable and sustainable change for individuals, teams and organisations. They recognise that every situation is unique and take time and great pride in ensuring the best possible match between client and their many highly qualified coaches.
As part of our commitment to delivering both quality and value to our clients, we include Open Reflexion’s First 90 Day coaching programme in our service offer.
After the time and resource invested by all parties in a identifying, attracting, assessing and appointing a high quality leader to an organisation, we believe it is vital to protect and leverage that investment to create the best possible platform for success. In our experience, very few internal on-boarding plans go beyond basic inductions and introductions.
With Open Reflexion’s expertise we are able to complement our search process with a comprehensive programme designed to take new appointments through their first 90 days in the business and beyond.
For more information about On-Boarding or Open Reflexion, please contact any of the team at bpesearch.
Annie Sullivan
Lynn Watkinson
Interim Projects
As part of our commitment to delivering a total solution to our clients’ resourcing needs, we are often asked to secure an experienced interim.
Our search work and personal networks, together with an “always-on” approach to talent engagement means we are well connected to a considerable pool of individuals open to interim assignments or short-term projects. Approximately 25% of our work comes from interim assignments, consultancy projects or fixed term contracts.
In any recruitment campaign delivery is key, with bpesearch my experience has been that this does not just mean speed but a combination of speed, consultative approach, timely project management and a high quality of the candidates presented. We continue to partner with bpesearch because they truly understand our business needs, expectations and the market in which we are operating; this has ensured they are truly successful in finding us the best candidates to drive our business forward.

Salary Benchmarking
Our collective experience, functional and sector expertise provides us with real-time understanding of market dynamics, salary levels and benefits packages.
We use this knowledge to advise our clients during all assignment briefings but we can extend this capability to deliver bespoke projects for specific requirements. For example:
Talent Mapping
By combining our market expertise, extensive networks and search capability we have been able to support many of our clients beyond pure headhunting assignments.
These are just a few examples of the types of projects we have delivered:
We felt that bpesearch truly understood the brief by listening and spending time understanding what we really wanted. We also recognised that whilst it felt like a long process, they did what they could to keep the pace and didn’t lose energy or focus during that time. We would be very happy to work with bpesearch again.
