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Smithcarey Ltd

SmithCarey Ltd is a UK specialist in FMCG recruitment, training and consultancy, known for a personal touch that runs through every client and candidate interaction. Led by experienced directors Mark Smith and Paul Carey, the firm focuses on placing high calibre commercial talent across sales, marketing, category, brand, customer, trade and shopper, export and international, as well as roles in commercial revenue management, supply chain and customer services. SmithCarey delivers permanent recruitment for core commercial teams and provides interim and short term contract solutions, typically 3 to 12 months, when clients need immediate impact or a bridge to a permanent hire. Their jobs portfolio spans National Account, Business Development, Revenue Growth, Category and Brand leadership, through to senior appointments such as Commercial Director, reflecting a proven capability in both mid to senior and executive hiring. Beyond recruitment, SmithCarey offers tailored commercial training that blends personalized client specific programs with open courses, helping teams rapidly build capability in selling, negotiation and commercial excellence. Their consultancy practice covers two pillars: capability consultancy to design and embed tools, processes and competency frameworks; and commercial consultancy for go to market planning, new channel strategy, price and cost increase execution, and live negotiation support. With deep roots in FMCG, B2B and consumer durables, the team partners with branded food and drink, confectionery and consumer healthcare businesses, evidenced by long standing client relationships and strong testimonials that highlight professionalism, integrity, thorough briefing, timely communication and outcomes that stick. Whether guiding a candidate from National Account Manager to leadership or helping a client sharpen commercial strategy and team capability, SmithCarey focuses on doing what they say they will do and delivering measurable results. Their ethos is simple and consistent: attract, retain and develop the very best talent in industry while providing practical, best in class training and hands on consulting support that improves performance.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial MachineryChemical Manufacturing

HQHuntingdon, United Kingdom

Varang Recruitment Solutions

Varang Recruitment Solutions is a talent advisory and staffing firm that helps employers attract, assess, and hire the right people for business critical roles. The company focuses on building long term partnerships with clients and candidates, applying a structured, data informed approach to every search. Its core services span permanent recruitment for individual and multi hire needs, contract and interim staffing to add flexible capacity, and executive search for senior and leadership appointments. Engagements typically begin with discovery to understand the role context, required outcomes, and culture, followed by market mapping, targeted sourcing, and rigorous screening that balances competency, motivation, and values fit. Consultants use a transparent process with clear timelines, interview calibration, and candidate feedback loops to reduce time to hire while improving quality. Varang Recruitment Solutions emphasizes candidate experience, clear communication, and confidentiality, ensuring that every interaction reflects well on the clients employer brand. The firm supports clients with job description refinement, assessment design, compensation benchmarking, and offer management, and can coordinate onboarding to help new hires ramp quickly. For project based or surge hiring, it can deploy dedicated delivery teams, standardized workflows, and progress reporting to keep stakeholders aligned. Clients benefit from market insights, salary trends, and competitive intelligence gathered during each search, which inform workforce planning and retention strategies. The team adopts sourcing technology, professional networks, and referral programs to reach both active and passive talent pools, while maintaining rigorous compliance and data privacy standards. Whether the requirement is a niche specialist, a high performing manager, or a C level leader, Varang Recruitment Solutions aims to deliver a short, high quality shortlist backed by evidence, references, and a commitment to inclusive hiring. Through consistent execution and measurable outcomes, the company positions itself as a dependable partner for organizations seeking to build strong teams.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQSlough, United Kingdom

The Source

The Source is a UK based general insurance partner for professional advisers, providing a digital platform, products, and human support that make it easy to integrate insurance into client propositions. Headquartered at Global Reach in Cardiff, the business focuses on household and landlord insurance supported by a comprehensive, advice driven quoting system that enables auto population, simple customization, and seamless quote sharing to streamline workflows for mortgage and financial advisers. Through two delivery models, advisers can either use The Source System for fully advised journeys or refer clients via Source Go to deliver an introduce pathway where the online process guides customers and The Source manages the rest, helping firms extend service without additional operational burden. The Source Home product carries a 5 star Defaqto rating, and the firm maintains a strong service reputation with a 4.9 out of 5 Trustpilot score based on more than 1,200 reviews, reflecting fast, friendly, and effective support. The company continually strengthens its insurer panel with well known brands such as Covea, Allianz, Integra, Lexelle, and Bspoke, ensuring breadth and depth of cover across home and let property lines. Beyond its core distribution technology, The Source invests in adviser capability through LearningLab, offering CPD aligned micro courses, fact sheets, ebooks, videos, and demos, alongside tailored training options that range from one to one guidance to group sessions, all delivered by real people rather than automated bots. Recent initiatives include a PMI referral opportunity in partnership with ActiveQuote, enabling advisers to add private medical insurance to their client offering without heavy lifting. Open Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm, the Adviser Support Team is available to answer questions, book system training, and help advisers choose the right intelligent insurance solution, whether a fully advised experience or a simple referral that protects clients and enhances adviser service quality.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQCardiff, United Kingdom

The Recruitment Lounge

The Recruitment Lounge is a UK and US recruitment company focused on the insurance and property sectors, connecting skilled professionals with reputable employers across both markets. Based in Essex and built on the values of honesty, knowledge, and quality, the firm offers a bespoke, tailored recruitment service that aligns talent with long term business needs. With over 20 years of combined industry experience, its consultants understand culture, team dynamics, and role requirements, and they manage the hiring journey from targeted search and shortlisting through interviews and offer acceptance. Within insurance, The Recruitment Lounge recruits for underwriters, claims professionals, and brokers, while in property it supports hiring across build to rent and block and property management, including resident services, property and block managers, operations, and related office-based roles. Candidates benefit from transparent advice, CV and interview support, and access to a live jobs platform that makes it easy to explore opportunities and apply with confidence. Employers rely on the team for responsive communication, accurate market insight, and a process that moves at pace without sacrificing quality, helping them stay competitive for in demand talent. The company partners with businesses of all sizes, from growing teams to established organizations, and emphasizes relationship building to ensure the right people land in the right roles. Active in its community through charitable initiatives and consistently rated highly by clients and candidates, The Recruitment Lounge combines a personable approach with disciplined delivery to achieve strong, lasting outcomes. Whether hiring across insurance or property, the firm provides a clear, efficient route to top talent and supports professionals seeking their next step through practical guidance and dedicated support.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementConstructionArchitectureInterior Design

HQChelmsford, United Kingdom

Connaught Search Solutions

Connaught Search Solutions is a recruitment and executive search partner that helps organizations identify, attract, and hire high caliber talent across professional functions. The firm focuses on three core service lines: executive search and interim management, permanent recruitment, and contract staffing, enabling clients to engage leadership capability, build stable teams, and add flexible specialists for time bound initiatives. Its consultants apply a research driven methodology that clarifies role requirements, defines success profiles, and maps relevant talent pools before approaching candidates with discretion and a compelling, accurate brief. The team emphasizes structured assessment and evidence based selection, using competency based interviews, work samples where relevant, and thorough referencing to validate performance, leadership style, and culture fit. For senior and confidential mandates, Connaught Search Solutions manages retained searches with clear milestones, transparent reporting, and market intelligence that informs compensation, title, and scope decisions. For permanent recruitment, the firm blends targeted sourcing with proactive pipelining to deliver balanced shortlists that reduce time to hire while maintaining quality. Contract solutions are designed to address peak workloads, specialist project demands, and interim leadership needs, with rapid onboarding and clear deliverables. Clients receive consultative support that spans role scoping, employer branding input, salary benchmarking, and inclusive selection practices, as well as curated longlists and shortlists, comparative insights, and offer negotiation support. Candidates benefit from respectful engagement, timely feedback, interview preparation, and guidance through resignation and onboarding, ensuring a positive experience for all parties. Post placement, the firm provides check ins during probation, gathers feedback to improve process, and shares practical onboarding recommendations to accelerate ramp up. Engagement models are flexible and outcome oriented, with a focus on quality over volume, measurable progress, and long term relationships grounded in ethics, fairness, and data privacy. By aligning hiring objectives to business goals and applying disciplined execution, Connaught Search Solutions helps reduce cost of vacancy, strengthen leadership pipelines, and build teams that perform.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSales & Business Development

HQMayfair, United Kingdom

Venture Recruitment Ltd

Venture Recruitment Ltd is a UK-based recruitment consultancy that brings great companies and great people together across the trade, retail, and KBB (kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms) markets. With more than 25 years of experience, over 500 client relationships, and 2000+ successful placements, the team operates as an extension of its clients, building effective hiring plans, sourcing and assessing candidates, and supporting onboarding so that new hires ramp quickly and deliver results. The firm partners with national and regional brands and has delivered large multi-hire campaigns, as shown in case studies with Crown Decorating Centres, where Venture helped expand the store network and build teams, and with Howdens Joinery, where the firm supported a large-scale talent acquisition and onboarding program. Typical appointments include branch and store leadership, retail and trade management, kitchen designers, sales assistants, and head office functions such as finance, reflecting a focus on white-collar roles that keep consumer and trade operations running. Venture blends professional know-how with a personal, performance-minded ethos: consultants invest time to understand each business, align search strategies to commercial goals, and present well-briefed, culture-aligned shortlists that accelerate hiring decisions. For candidates, Venture offers more than job matching, providing practical guidance on career pathways, interview preparation, and ongoing support to help individuals thrive in roles that suit their strengths. Operating UK-wide, the consultancy is known for responsive communication, honest advice, and a multi-sector capability within retail, consumer, and construction-adjacent environments, including big-ticket and assisted sales settings. Whether a client needs a single pivotal hire or a coordinated campaign across multiple locations, Venture Recruitment delivers structured processes, clear timelines, and consistent results that help companies scale and candidates advance.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOSOW/ProjectsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsConstructionArchitectureInterior Design

HQMaidenhead, United Kingdom

TSRN UK

Founded in 1997, TSRN UK (The Sales Recruitment Network) is a boutique recruitment organisation with national reach across the UK. Staffed entirely by former sales directors and managers, the firm is built by salespeople for salespeople and focuses on delivering high quality sales talent through retained search and agile contingent recruitment. TSRN partners with employers to run Search Assignment and Recruitment Assignment solutions, supported by consultancy that clarifies mandates, maps target markets, and sets realistic timelines. Consultants take comprehensive, meaningful briefs and commit to presenting only candidates who meet agreed criteria, prioritising capability, track record, and cultural fit. The firm recruits across the full commercial career ladder, including telesales and internal sales, field sales representatives, account managers, business development managers, sales engineers, showroom and retail sales staff, and sales leaders such as regional managers, national sales managers, and heads of sales. Operating across multiple sectors, TSRN regularly supports clients in manufacturing and industrials, automotive, technology, professional services, and retail and consumer markets, working with SMEs, mid market companies, and national brands. With locations covering the North, Midlands, South, and Scotland, the company provides nationwide coverage while retaining the responsiveness and accountability of a specialist boutique. For candidates, TSRN offers a straightforward registration process, job alerts, and transparent application handling; for employers, it delivers market insight, salary benchmarking, rigorous shortlisting, and discreet outreach to passive talent. Typical engagements range from urgent single hires and confidential replacements to multi role growth campaigns, including interim and contract solutions where speed and impact are critical. TSRN measures success by long term placements that drive revenue and by the trust it earns through clear communication, disciplined process management, and consistent delivery.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAll industriesAutomotiveAerospaceCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQUnited Kingdom

Venture Placements

Venture Placements is a UK Rec2Rec specialist dedicated to helping recruitment agencies grow by hiring outstanding recruiters and supporting recruitment professionals to advance their careers. With more than 20 years of industry experience, the firm focuses on permanent appointments across the recruitment profession, placing 360 consultants, delivery consultants, business developers, and branch managers into high performing teams. Headquartered in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, and active nationwide with roles across hubs such as Coventry, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol, Birmingham, and Southampton, Venture Placements combines deep market knowledge with an efficient, relationship led approach. Their process starts with a comprehensive brief to understand the role and success profile, followed by targeted advertising and headhunting using a proprietary database and established networks. Shortlisted applicants receive a structured phone screen and then a personal interview with industry specific skills testing. Candidates are always screened in person rather than by automated systems, ensuring a consistent, human evaluation from first contact to final interview. For employers, Venture Placements removes hiring pressure so internal teams can focus on revenue targets, promising a fast response and clear feedback, typically by the end of the next working day after registration. For candidates, the firm offers practical CV help grounded in what hiring managers in recruitment actually want to see, sharing sector specific tips that improve interview outcomes. The team is known for careful matchmaking and will not introduce clients and candidates who are not well aligned, resulting in placements that stick. Their remit spans agencies serving industrial, driving, warehouse, construction, commercial, engineering, hospitality, renewable energy, social care, FMCG, print and packaging, public sector, technical, and onsite staffing markets. Clients and candidates can connect via social channels, contact form, phone, or email to start the conversation in confidence.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOAll industriesManagement ConsultingLegalTechnical WritingProject ManagementHuman Resources

HQBedford, United Kingdom

Harris Hill Charity Recruitment

Harris Hill Charity Recruitment is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to supporting the charity and wider not for profit sector across the UK. The firm focuses on connecting mission driven organizations with professionals whose skills and values align with social impact, offering hiring solutions that span permanent appointments, temporary and interim cover, and executive search for senior leadership and board level roles. Drawing on deep sector knowledge and an extensive network, Harris Hill Charity Recruitment covers core functions that are critical to organizational sustainability and growth, including fundraising across individual giving, major donor, corporate partnerships, trusts and foundations, community and events; marketing, digital and communications; policy, public affairs and campaigning; finance, HR and people; operations, governance, data and insight; program and service delivery; and office and supporter care. Their consultative approach blends targeted search with advertised selection, market mapping and talent pooling, underpinned by robust processes such as competency based assessment, behavioral interviewing and thorough referencing. Clients receive end to end support, from defining role requirements and crafting inclusive job descriptions to employer brand advice, salary benchmarking, shortlisting, interview coordination, stakeholder briefings, offer management and onboarding. For urgent needs, the temporary and interim team mobilizes quickly to provide reliable cover for peaks in demand, parental leave, projects and restructures, with appropriate pre employment checks and right to work verification handled efficiently. Candidates benefit from transparent guidance, CV and interview coaching, and sector insights that help them navigate career moves with confidence, while organizations gain a partner who understands governance, safeguarding, DEI considerations and the realities of charity budgets and funding cycles. By combining ethical practice with practical delivery, Harris Hill Charity Recruitment reduces time to hire, improves retention and strengthens fundraising and operational capability, enabling charities and social impact organizations to achieve more for the causes they serve.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtFundraisingSocial ServicesEnvironmental ConservationSenior ExecutivesSales & Business DevelopmentMarketing & Creative

HQBermondsey, United Kingdom

Xcellin

Xcellin is a UK specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated to pharmaceutical and medical sales, combining deep sector knowledge with a people first ethos. Co founders Heather Hughes and Karen Hall previously held senior management roles in medical sales organizations and bring more than a decade of proven success in both headcount recruitment and CSO team builds. Partnering with pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, Xcellin delivers best practice people solutions across permanent hiring and outsourced contract sales, with a particular strength in assembling small, high performing CSO teams aligned to clear commercial objectives. The firm recruits for GP and hospital representatives, key account managers and healthcare partnership managers, nurse advisors, clinical trainers, and field based patient education specialists, providing candidates with comprehensive support from role exploration and CV advice to interview preparation, assessment center coaching, and post offer guidance. Clients benefit from quality over quantity shortlists, transparent communication, and market insight grounded in first hand leadership experience in pharma and healthcare. Since 2000 the team has delivered contracted outsource solutions that blend sales execution with clinical education, underpinned by structured onboarding, coaching, and ongoing performance management to ensure measurable outcomes in both primary and secondary care. Xcellin maintains a dedicated Nurse Advisor Talent Pool to give clients rapid access to nurses for patient support, audit, and clinical training assignments, while candidates can tap into graduate support, a regularly updated job board, and a responsive team focused on long term career development. Consistently rated better or significantly better than other agencies by pharmaceutical and medical sales candidates, Xcellin is known for building trusted relationships, prioritizing quality, and tailoring each engagement to the unique goals of the client, whether for national builds or targeted regional deployments across the UK.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsMental Health CareVeterinaryHealthcare & Life Sciences

HQHungerford, United Kingdom

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