Search & Selection

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.

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.

Interim Projects

Through a number of business changes, we had the need to recruit a new Health & Safety Director. We had not worked with Michael prior to this, but were impressed with his approach to the task and the clarity of process that he brought. The project was executed swiftly and with just the right amount of attention and contact from our side. He delivered an excellent shortlist of candidates with a very interesting range of backgrounds and attributes. Ultimately we ended up with a great final choice whom we anticipate will make a step difference to our business.

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:

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

Talent Mapping

The bpesearch team have excellent knowledge of FMCG and use that to great advantage when partnering with us. They work very closely with our HR team and hiring managers to gain real insight into our business and a clear understanding of our unique culture and ways of working. In addition to sourcing great people, they also provide us with critical knowledge of the external market to ensure we make informed decisions on job descriptions, benefits packages and candidate attraction and I firmly believe they have helped us to increase the calibre of candidates joining our team.

1. Cultural Immersion

2. Research & Discovery

3. Progress Reports

4. Assess & Shortlist