About the job

‍Launch Movemeon Exec Search - build an 8-figure business working with PE funds and leading Global Corporates

Leverage the community, technology, and track record that Movemeon, global tech-enabled business, founded by ex-McKinsey consultants, has developed over the last 10 years. Become a trusted advisor to leading Private Equity Funds and Global Corporates to build a market-leading Executive Search firm. We want you to share in the upside of what you build, with an attractive bonus and equity.

About Movemeon

Movemeon is a tech-enabled global recruitment business. We work with leading PE funds, global enterprises, VC-backed scale-ups and consulting firms, and help them find the best strategic, transformation and commercial talent.

Our community is central to our proposition. Founded by ex-McKinsey consultants, we have built a network of over 70,000 strategic and commercial professionals, who started their careers in leading consulting or finance firms (45% are ex-McKinsey, BCG, Bain). This has attracted over 5,000 businesses to partner with us, including Bain Capital, Advent, KKR, Amazon, HelloFresh, Uber.

Our tech enables us to outcompete others in the market. We are investing heavily behind using software, data and AI to further improve how we serve our community and clients.

We’re proud to have worked in over 100 countries and have offices focused on EMEA (UK, France, DACH), APAC (Australia, New Zealand and Singapore) and the US.

Launching Movemeon’s Executive Search Offering

As our community has evolved over the last decade, we’re working on increasingly senior roles. We now frequently partner with Private Equity Funds and Global Corporates to find exceptional Chief Strategy Officers, Chief Transformation Officers and Operating Partners.

We have all the fundamentals to be the leading global provider of these hires. Our community is unrivaled; our tech means we can reach the right people at the right time. We now want to hire someone to lead this new practice, and develop a best in class end-to-end search offering.

About the Director role

As Director of this new business line, you will be responsible for building out the Executive Search offering. This will involve developing the commercials, methodology of the end-to-end search process and most importantly, the client development.

You’ll have all that we’ve built over the last ten years:

• Clients: We have a global track record, and will bring an unrivalled list of clients who already work with us, across private equity (Advent, Bain Capital, KKR, LDC to name a few) and large businesses (Sky, Aviva, Rio Tinto, Mastercard, American Express...)
• Sourcing: our network and technology will reach people that no one else can. Our awareness, and ability to activate interest in a role, is market-leading
• Team: while you would be expected to build your own team over time, you would have support from our exceptional success team who would be able to develop long and short-lists leveraging our sourcing capabilities

Given you will be launching the new business offering, this role will be both entrepreneurial and business development-focused. As such, expect variety and extremely close engagement with clients to provide best in class service. We would expect the following to be important aspects of the role

• Client development: working closely with key decision makers to help understand their challenges and needs. Ultimately success will be chosen to support them in search mandates
• Client delivery: supporting clients on every step of the journey to ensure they are making the best talent decisions. This will include scoping potential roles and opportunities, and then leading the search process through to onboarding. Ultimately, success will be clients being ecstatic about hires and these professionals having a big early impact
• Materials and proposition: while you will be able to lean on our marketing and design team, you will be responsible for developing the proposition and supporting materials you need
• Awareness in the market: working alongside our marketing and client team, you will be responsible for identifying areas of potential need in the market

The role will be based in London, given the Client base we have. We are a flexible company, providing hybrid work - most people in a similar role are in the office 2-3 days per week. There will likely be some travel with the role to other key markets (France, Germany, US).

What we’re looking for

We are looking for someone who wants to build a search business. You will have exceptional client hands, and be driven by seeing the impact of your work commercially. Specifically, we’re looking for:

• Someone with a strong network and contacts in the Private Equity and/ or Strategy space. This is likely to have either been developed in consulting or in executive search
• Previous search experience and a good understanding of the recruitment market generally
• Exceptional client hands and ability to manage very senior and demanding stakeholders effectively
• Strong business development mentality and a client-first mindset
  

Our offer to you

We want to help you co-found a search business. You can leverage everything we’ve got to offer (track record, clients, sourcing), and use it to build an unrivalled executive search business in the Strategy and Transformation space. We will offer:

• A very competitive package: competitive basic salary, profit share and LTIP. We would expect total in-year cash comp to be between £100-150k depending upon performance. Bonus will be a significant part of the in-year cash comp
• A company that believes in creating a great place to work with regular team socials and annual company away trips
• 25 days holiday, 8 UK Bank Holidays, a holiday between Christmas and New Year, and your birthday off. We also give you an extra day off for each year you are with us after your second working anniversary
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave and great working flexibility; we have an office in Farringdon