Executive Search Services

Retained Search

Westport Partners has a dedicated Retained Research & Consulting Team that provides efficient and customised solutions based on a clear understanding of the needs of our valued clients to find future leaders for their organisations.

Retained Executive Search forms the core of Westport Partners’ business. Talent acquisition is an often underestimated and under-valued part of the business. The firm’s modus operandi is to provide the most efficient, detailed and comprehensive service in the industry for each search assignment in every instance, cementing the firm as our clients’ first port of call for business-critical talent requirements.

  • Executive: leadership searches

  • Comprehensive: full market coverage

  • Speed: fast turnaround times

  • Effective: a no-nonsense approach to business leaving no stone unturned

  • Competency: 100% delivery track record on retained assignments

  • Delivery: we have completed over 100 retained searches with 36 corporate clients in 18 locations

  • Depth: extensive understanding of recruitment strategy and best practices

  • Increased buy-in from candidates knowing our client has retained

  • Clientc entric approach focused on long term partnership and relationships

Professional Search

We pride ourselves on placing mid to senior candidates that remain with our clients in the long term. Central to building our client’s bench strength, looking at multi-level succession planning is the cornerstone of our work. We have successfully built many teams at the country, regional and global levels.

  • Mid to Senior Management: level searches

  • Efficiency: end-to-end results from creating job descriptions to placement in a timely manner

  • Team Construction: extensive expertise in hiring and assembling business divisions top-down

  • Tailored Approach: customised recruitment solutions around each of our client’s unique needs

  • Cultural Values & Integrity: finding people with the correct balance of technical skills, expertise and attitude

  • Established Networks: to swiftly find the most relevant practitioners

  • Thinking Outside the Box: we have placed numerous practitioners who typically would not be apparent on an initial short-list. This requires vision and a true understanding of what the business requires, coupled with the confidence to make unorthodox recommendations

Interim Solutions

We provide interim resourcing solutions; placing contract professionals into major corporates, financial institutions and technology firms across all disciplines and at all levels of experience. We are committed to providing an interim recruitment solution in a competitive market where speed makes the difference between winning and losing. Working in coordination with our clients to navigate complex procedures, our aim is to source your ideal candidate with a view to reaching your commercial goals.

At Westport Partners, we set out to understand who you are and how you are building the foundations of your human capital. We find the best and most appropriate candidate profiles in terms of your needs.

  • Speed: on our payroll or your payroll - fast turn-around time

  • Guidance: providing straightforward advice to our candidates and clients

  • Established: developed database and network of interim candidates

  • Practical: sensible and pragmatic advice on flexible resourcing

  • Support: we help you in the heavy lifting of your contract recruitment needs

Market Intelligence & Research

Westport Partners is built on a foundation of detailed and up-to-date in-house research. Securing talent is often the final step of what is in actuality a much more complex process of understanding the relevant market and extracting the maximum possible value from the available talent pool. The groundwork for such an endeavour is in the meticulous research necessary to discern and collate all relevant information and more importantly, analyse and apply the market intelligence to satisfy a firm’s human capital needs.

What distinguishes the firm is our two-pronged guarantee (1) a detailed understanding of what your most pressing needs are by looking closely under the bonnet and getting an intricate knowledge of your business that is required to win in a competitive market and (2) providing outstanding Market Intelligence & Research to our clients with the aim of identifying and securing top-calibre talent. This enables our clients to make fully informed hiring decisions.

  • Analysis: compensation & benefit reviews

  • Dynamic: pushing the boundaries of “cookie-cutter” methodologies

  • Trust: absolute discretion, integrity and business ethics

  • Cutting-edge: innovative market data analysis