What sets us
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New Town Partnership is an executive search and leadership consultancy.
We offer a distinctly personal and directly accountable service, working in close collaboration with our clients to attract and retain the highest calibre talent.
Independent and partner led, working as long-term advisors we create talent strategies that positively impact business growth.
Working on an exclusively retained basis, our high-quality process draws on both an established network and best-in-class research capability.
By handling fewer roles at a time than other firms, we invest more time on every search, and crucially the people you meet are the people you get when you hire us.
Our proactive and responsive approach is delivered by our experienced team and developed from gaining an in-depth understanding of your organisation, its strategy and culture.
This insight allows us to rigorously assess suitability and cultural fit, enabling us to create the most compelling proposition to engage the talent you seek.
Our Values
Our values underpin everything we do as we act as your trusted advisor and ambassador in the market.
Tenacious
Collaborative
Passionate
Accountable
Insightful
We act with a long-term view – Our aim is to build long-lasting relationships with clients. We invest significant time in getting to know your corporate culture, long term goals and challenges
Our approach drives our success – We bring rigorous academic search balanced with commercial realism to our assignments. We are always prepared to tailor our approach and offer challenge and advice when appropriate.
We are specialists – Our depth of market understanding and insight into the clients we represent is key to attracting and accessing the very best talent in the market.
Services
Our core service is the delivery of executive recruitment across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Our practice areas cover the breadth of the leadership spectrum.
Clients include start-ups, multinational corporations, leading family businesses and private equity-backed companies. Our services are bespoke, highly discreet and confidential.
Utilising a broad spectrum of research and analytical tools, our team can identify and develop specialist insight into an industry’s talent landscape.
We work with clients to define the specific commercial requirements, whether it be faster sourcing processes, competitor insight, succession planning or diversity and inclusion improvement.
Before a search assignment commences, often significant work is required to define the objectives of the engagement, to understand the skills and experience that will be needed in the individual/s and consideration as to how they will interact with other elements of the organisation.
Sometimes the answer to this is unclear: a client may have a commercial or organisational challenge and need support defining a solution. This could involve consulting on organisational structure, assessing capability and skills across the team or discussing a need to drive a change in leadership DNA.
In addition, we offer a full range of psychometric assessment services, onboarding support and outplacement advice. Through our affiliate partners we can offer a full range of HR support services and legal advice.
Search
Our core service is the delivery of executive recruitment across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Our practice areas cover the breadth of the leadership spectrum.
Clients include start-ups, multinational corporations, leading family businesses and private equity-backed companies. Our services are bespoke, highly discreet and confidential.
Talent Mapping
Utilising a broad spectrum of research and analytical tools, our team can identify and develop specialist insight into an industry’s talent landscape.
We work with clients to define the specific commercial requirements, whether it be faster sourcing processes, competitor insight, succession planning or diversity and inclusion improvement.
Consultancy
Before a search assignment commences, often significant work is required to define the objectives of the engagement, to understand the skills and experience that will be needed in the individual/s and consideration as to how they will interact with other elements of the organisation.
Sometimes the answer to this is unclear: a client may have a commercial or organisational challenge and need support defining a solution. This could involve consulting on organisational structure, assessing capability and skills across the team or discussing a need to drive a change in leadership DNA.
In addition, we offer a full range of psychometric assessment services, onboarding support and outplacement advice. Through our affiliate partners we can offer a full range of HR support services and legal advice.
I am yet to find a talent consultancy with a better approach or service. They don’t just find what you think you are looking for, they find what you really need. The team take the time to get under the skin of your requirements and then map the market to give you quality information: about your brand, skills availability and compensation. The feedback I have had from all candidates is that the team are easily the best headhunters they have worked with, which creates a strong reflection on my own company brand.
I don’t see New Town Partnership as a recruitment agency at all – they operate in true partnership with me and I am always completely confident in the work they do.
Approach
We bring rigorous academic research balanced with commercial realism to all our assignments.
Role consultation and search strategy agreement
Market mapping, outreach and assessment
Longlist development and process recommendation
Shortlist presentation and advice
Client interview & candidate management
Offer negotiation & onboarding support
A highly consultative process delivered by experts who really get to know your business and markets:
We invest heavily in understanding your requirements up front
We spend time meeting your teams so we can truly represent your business in the marketplace
We support further development of the brief and advise on the most suitable attraction strategy
We work closely with you to agree a targeting strategy, ensuring sensitivity and discretion where required
We make clear commitments on delivery and benchmark our progress against these commitments throughout
We provide regular communication, engaging on your terms as part of your team
A clear understanding about the process we run, what you can expect and when:
A better understanding of your market:
We share insights into your employer brand and its reputation in the market
We provide comprehensive salary benchmarking information
We support the development of future talent pipelines alongside our search process
A detailed position profile for prospective candidates
Engaging and dynamic marketing campaigns
An open approach into development of the talent pool throughout
Comprehensive shortlist reports with clear recommendations and advice for onward assessment
High quality, evidence-based documentation throughout:
Team
“We operate a Partner led structure, with support coordinated from our long-standing office manager Helen Green. Partners directly oversee delivery of all assignments and are supported by a wider research consultancy team.”
Louise Gibson
Partner
Louise comes from a broad commercial and advisory career with experience across strategy consultancy, private equity and business services, having worked with PwC’s deal consulting team in London and a leading private family office in Scotland before moving into executive search. Alongside Jane Gilchrist she established the New Town Partnership in 2015.
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Jane Gilchrist
Partner
Jane began her professional career with a leading international recruitment firm. Her executive search career has been spent working across London and Edinburgh, most recently with a City-based practice delivering a number of high profile C-suite and Board-level mandates. In 2015 she set up New Town Partnership alongside Louise Gibson.
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Helen Green
Office Manager
Helen is the executive assistant to the Partners and our Office Manager. She has worked with New Town since its inception in 2015. Helen supports with diary management, candidate communication and financial administration. She is also responsible for our GDPR compliance and Privacy processes.
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