Talent Worth Keeping

Strategic executive search that aligns culture, values and performance — so you hire with confidence, not urgency.

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How We Work

Our approach is deliberate, collaborative and insight-led. We act as a true extension of your leadership team — taking the time to deeply understand your culture, ambitions and leadership DNA.

By aligning performance expectations with long-term vision, we ensure every hire strengthens not only your team today, but your organisation’s future. The result is thoughtful, values-aligned placements that deliver impact, growth and lasting retention.

Our Services

Talent Magpie specialises in the Sport, Technology, and Consumer sectors, while also supporting clients across a broader range of industries. Leveraging our extensive network of executive and management-level professionals, we connect exceptional talent with leading organisations through the following services.

Retained Executive Search

A dedicated, high-impact search for senior or business-critical hires. We partner closely with clients to map the market, engage top talent, and deliver a carefully curated shortlist of exceptional candidates.

Recruiter In-House

We provide a dedicated recruiter embedded within your team, managing the end-to-end hiring process from sourcing to offer. This gives you the benefit of our market expertise, network, and flexible support.

Exclusive Search

When appointed exclusively, we will commit to fully understanding your business and identifying the strongest candidates across the market, ensuring a focused, efficient and high-quality hiring process.

Contingent Search

A flexible, success-based solution where we leverage our network and market expertise to efficiently introduce high-quality candidates, with fees only payable on successful placement.

CV and LinkedIn Consultation

We help professionals strengthen their personal brand through expert CV and LinkedIn feedback, ensuring they present their experience clearly and stand out to employers.

Fred Wellbeing

Helping businesses uncover hidden costs of people problems such as absence, turnover and low engagement. Free consultation available.

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Why Talent Magpie?

Talent sets us apart.

There’s no shortage of recruiters. What’s rare is a partner who takes the time to truly understand a business, its values, and the people who make it work.

We don’t operate on volume or shortcuts. We work deliberately and thoughtfully, drawing on real-world experience to help organisations make hiring decisions they feel confident standing behind — not just today, but long after the hire is made.

What sets us apart:

Deep experience supporting businesses through growth, change, and scale
A quality-first approach that prioritises alignment over speed
Commercial understanding combined with genuine human insight
Clear, calm judgement in complex or high-pressure hiring situations
A long-term partner invested in outcomes, not transactions

Trusted by Global Companies

Working with people who want results — not noise.

EXECUTIVE SEARCH FOR SCALING BRANDS

100% RETAINED

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93% Retention Rate

Across 12 months

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Hire Time

On average 4 weeks after brief taken (Dependant on Company Interview process)

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100% Retained

And 86% Exclusive/Contingent Successful Hires

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Repeat Business

Repeat clients: 75%
Revenue from retained clients: 70%

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88% Offer Acceptance Rate

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Growth shouldn't come at the cost of culture.

Most businesses don’t struggle because of a lack of ambition — they struggle when growth outpaces the people, leadership, and values needed to sustain it. Too often, hiring becomes transactional, reactive, and disconnected from what truly makes the business successful.

Founders and leadership teams frequently face the following issues, if this is you, we can help.

HIRING

Hiring pressure that leads to short-term decisions misaligned with long-term values

SENIOR ROLES

Senior roles filled on experience alone, not character or cultural fit

TALENTED TEAMS

Talented teams working hard without the leadership clarity they deserve

MIS-HIRES

Mis-hires that damage trust, performance, and momentum

Processes

Recruitment processes that prioritise speed over quality

Our method is proven.

I met Peter a few months after being made redundant. Having already spoke to about 572 recruiters, with very little success, I wasn't holding out much hope. It turned out to be the meeting that changed the game. Within a few minutes of talking, Peter mentioned a school friend he'd been working with who had almost tripled their workforce in the last 9 months. There was no official role open, but Peter had a feeling that my skills and personality would resonate with the founder, and he was right. He facilitated the introduction, and just let things flow naturally from there, no interfering, no pressure, just gently keeping things moving and offering support where needed. In my opinion, this is how recruiters should operate - finding the opportunities that would never be on a job board, and guiding candidates to do what they do best. If you're looking for someone with great network, great instincts, and just the right level of support - whether you're recruiting or looking for your next role - you need to speak to Peter. It might just be the meeting that changes everything!

I had the pleasure of working with Peter as a candidate and cannot recommend him highly enough. From our first conversation, he was professional, attentive and genuinely invested in finding the right fit for me — his dedication, transparency and industry knowledge truly setting him apart from other consultants I have worked with throughout my career Peter kept me informed throughout the entire process, provided valuable interview insights and was always available for support or advice. Thanks to his efforts, I took the perfect next step in my career If you're looking for someone who goes above and beyond in recruitment, as either a candidate searching for your next role or an employer looking to add to your team, Peter is exactly who you want in your corner.

I’ve known Peter for well over 3 years now. Peter has been on a journey with me and has taken the time to understand my ambitions, career needs and understood what I needed the most in my next position. I’ll never forget the time Peter advised me not to pursue a particular role and instead wait for a role that better matched my skillset and personality, he couldn’t have been more right in retrospect. Peter isn’t like any recruiter I’ve met before, there is a passion to find the best job for the candidate in question. Peter is a true professional, he manages to find genuine warmth in his connection with candidates. He’s approachable, understanding, not pushy or judgemental and no question is ever a silly question. Peter, thank you for being part of my journey for so long and for matching my brief and needs perfectly.

I had a really positive experience working with Peter at Talent Magpie. I first came across my role on LinkedIn and reached out to Peter who managed the entire recruitment process from start to finish. Peter was professional and responsive throughout. He kept me well informed at every stage and was always available to answer questions or provide updates. Thanks to Peter I secured an amazing role and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Peter and Talent Magpie to anyone looking for their next opportunity.

There are many recruiters/companies out there to choose from, and often the communications stop after you send your CV, and emails are just unanswered. To find a collaborative consultant who cares about your needs, aspirations and hopes for a new career is not easy. However, Peter is that very man. It is only with understanding, communication, time and effort that candidates can be matched with suitable companies, and this takes dedication from both parties. If you are looking for someone who cares about matching you to the most appropriate role, then I can not recommend Peter highly enough. We have been speaking for many years, and he has not only helped me to find a role but has placed suitable people within businesses I have worked. It is a pleasure knowing Peter, and I am sure we will continue to work together helping each other through our careers.

Peter is possibly the best recruiter I have ever worked with! Not only is he knowledgeable, but he provides full support throughout the process. Such a pleasure to work with him and will definitely use him again in the future. Thanks for everything Peter! You truly have found me the most amazing opportunity to-date.

I have worked with Peter to fill two vacancies in my company. Having not worked with recruiters before, I wasn't sure what to expect, but Peter was fantastic to work with! He always remained in regular contact throughout each process, and worked really hard to truly understand what role we were looking to fill, to ensure he sent me a curated list of applicants. I would, and have, recommend Peter to any company looking for recruitment support in a wide field of industries.

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