Operating partners and platform builders
Private Equity
They want a search firm that already lives inside the thesis and can talk it back to them.
A Fractional CMO for Executive Search Firms With the Team to Deliver
Senior marketing leadership that owns the plan, and a lean expert team that ships the work across brand, content, LinkedIn, email and web. One marketing function, run for retained search practices placing into PE portfolios, FTSE boards and family offices.
Trusted by Recruitment Agencies Across the UK
The Mandate
What Executive Search Marketing Has to Get Right
Retained search sells at the senior end of B2B, where the playbook that works for high-volume recruitment falls apart in front of a board-level buyer.
- Tenet
Buyers research long before they reply.
PE partners, board chairs and group HRDs vet search firms across LinkedIn, the website and back-channel referrals before a single email is opened. The brand earns the seat before the meeting.
- Tenet
Cycles run for months, sometimes years.
A retained mandate often takes nine to eighteen months from first impression to signed engagement. Marketing has to compound across that whole window.
- Tenet
Reputation is the entire product.
The LinkedIn post, the newsletter, the proposal deck, even the website footer all signal whether you are a peer or a vendor. One inconsistency disqualifies you, quietly, and you never hear why.
Who You Are Pitching To
Six Rooms Your Marketing Has to Land In
Newly installed leaders under value-creation plans
Portfolio CEOs
They are reading specialist content for proof that you have placed peers into similar mandates before.
Chairs and non-executive directors
Board Chairs
They short list quietly, and reputation, content depth and reliable referrals settle the panel before a call is ever booked.
Heads of talent at scale-up and FTSE leadership
Group HR Directors
They are juggling three or four search partners. The one that brings real sector insight alongside the shortlist keeps the next brief.
Owner-managers planning succession
Founder Owners
They take their time, and they back the firm that reads like a peer rather than a fee-chaser.
Nomination committees and trustee boards
Search Committees
They expect a documented process, references and proof of confidentiality before marketing even backs the panel pitch.
The Programme
One Function We Run for Executive Search Firms
These are the same channels the rest of B2B uses. What changes for retained search is the cadence, the calibration and the tone, with one CMO owning the plan across all of them rather than six suppliers each guarding a lane. Every line below is tuned for the retained search market and links through to the underlying service.
Brand Transformation
Earn the seat before the meeting
Positioning that signals peer status to PE and the boardroom, with a visual system that holds its line across the deck, the pitch document and the website.
Content Marketing
Specialist depth that buyers cite back
Long-form market analysis, hiring intelligence and sector commentary written by senior editors. The proof that the firm reads its market as closely as it reads its candidates.
LinkedIn Marketing
Authority under named partners
Personal profiles run for each partner, weekly content in their voice, newsletter programmes and researched outreach into PE houses, portfolio companies and chairs. This is the channel where partner-led content compounds fastest.
Email Marketing
Conversations with the right inbox
Researched sequences calibrated to PE, FTSE and family office leadership. Deliverability and copy that reads like a partner wrote it, because a partner did.
Recruitment SEO
Ranks, and survives the panel review
Recruitment SEO targeting the commercial searches that matter, plus ranked service pages and case work built to convert when the chair clicks through after the referral.
PPC Advertising
Targeted reach for retained briefs
Discreet, account-based paid campaigns when a new practice area or sector specialism needs visibility fast. Useful for launches, less so for steady state.
Social Media Marketing
Presence that suits the boardroom
Measured, LinkedIn-led social that keeps your partners credible with PE, FTSE and family office leadership, extended across other channels only where discretion allows.
The Proof
An Executive Search Brand, Reset for PE and FTSE Rooms
Growing an executive search firm into VC and PE rooms.
A new brand, a 17-page strategy and a multi-channel campaign that put Meyrick in conversation with FTSE 250 leaders, VCs and PE firms across food and ingredients.
- Sector
- Executive Search, Food and Ingredients
- Engagement
- Ongoing partnership, from 2022
- Region
- UK, Europe, North America
- Top 5%LinkedIn newsletter globally, 28,000+ subscribers in around eight months
- 100+conversations with senior leaders in food and ingredients
- £3M+revenue potential identified across three meetings booked
What Clients Say
Trusted by Recruitment Founders
26+
Finalised Projects
98%
Client satisfaction rate
18
Brand Transformations
01 / 05
“Limivex now controls our entire sales and marketing activity across Europe and the US, and I'm having calls every week with my ideal clients.”
Executive Search FAQ
What Search Partners Ask Us
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