Experienced Executive Search Researcher (3+ years of experience within SHREK or leading boutique)
Sector (Ideally media, consumer technology, digital, retail, travel, leisure & hospitality or SaaS)
Oldworth Consulting | London | Hybrid / Remotee
About Oldworth
Oldworth is a global executive search boutique operating at the intersection of commerce, leadership and transformation. We advise publicly listed and privately backed businesses across tech-enabled consumer, media, retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. Our work extends well beyond recruitment. We decode leadership potential, distil commercial insight and quietly influence how companies evolve through talent.
Our approach is consultative, analytical and deeply human. We are swift but precise, independent in thought and grounded in trust. Our tone is direct, polished, never pompous, and always professional.
The Role
We are looking for a bright and motivated Research Analyst at the start of their career who wants to understand how leadership really works. This is a central role within our research and insight function, where information becomes intelligence, intelligence becomes impact and impact can change share prices, grow businesses and innovate on a global level.
You will explore markets, map organisations, identify exceptional individuals and interpret the stories that sit behind commercial structures. Working across multiple live mandates, you will collaborate closely with our founder and gain direct exposure to board-level decision making in a professional, high-trust environment.
If you are curious by nature, analytical by instinct and genuinely interested in people and business with a deep appreciation of the confidentiality entrusted in the knowledge we hold, we would love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Search Strategy & Market Mapping: Independently formulate and execute compelling search strategies, capturing market insights to guide each executive search. Conduct rigorous industry and company research to understand client needs, support commercial executive searches and identify target companies, emerging trends and talent pools.
- Data Analysis: Analyse filings, investor materials, media and data sources to understand the commercial forces shaping markets and the people driving them.
- Candidate Identification & Outreach: Identify and approach high-potential candidates through creative research methods and leveraging our proprietary databases. Develop comprehensive reports on potential candidates and target companies, mapping the talent landscape for each assignment for confidential pipelines.
- Collaboration with founder and future consultants: Partner closely with our consultants on search mandates – participate in kick-off meetings and client briefings, contributing insights on target profiles and search strategy. Screen and evaluate candidates alongside consultants to ensure we present the best qualified talent to clients.
- Client & Stakeholder Communication: Prepare polished status reports and candidate profiles for presentation to clients, providing clear insights into each candidate’s fit. Ensure all data (e.g. candidate information, market feedback) is captured accurately in our systems, maintaining the integrity and quality of our research data.
- Business Development Support: Support business development by monitoring market developments and spotting opportunities in our sectors. Conduct background research for pitch materials, client presentations and attend select pitch meetings to provide market insight where appropriate.
- Knowledge & Innovation: Develop deep domain knowledge in our focus industries, staying ahead of trends and sharing actionable market intelligence with the team. Contribute to internal knowledge initiatives and best practices that push our firm forward.
- Ethics & Confidentiality: Uphold the highest standards of professionalism, confidentiality and ethics throughout the search process. Represent Oldworth with finesse and credibility in all candidate and client interactions. Our clients are in growth and others are listed giants. Our influence can move markets, this comes with a significant obligation of discretion.
Required Qualifications & Traits
- Analytical Curiosity: Ability to digest large amounts of information, identify key insights quickly and synthesize them into clear recommendations. Be intellectually curious with a data-driven mindset, constantly exploring new research tools and techniques.
- Resourcesful self-starter with a can-do attitude. You will get regular touchpoints with the founder, who will endlessly support. The successful appointment will be someone who exercises their own initiative, leverages their own drive and is concerned with high-quality deliverables will thrive in this environment.
- Communication Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You can craft high-quality, well-structured documents for clients and confidently articulate insights to stakeholders at all levels. Excellent listening skills and keen attention to detail are a must.
- Interpersonal Savvy: High emotional intelligence and professionalism, with the ability, confidence or tenacity to interact credibly with CEOs, founders and senior executives. Builds trust and rapport easily with clients, candidates, and colleagues. Collaborative team player who contributes to a positive, inclusive culture.
- Organised & Proactive: Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines without sacrificing quality. A self-starter who takes initiative, yet knows how to leverage the team for success. Adaptable and comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Tech & Tools: Savvy with research technologies and CRM databases (experience with tools like LinkedIn, CRM platforms, or AI-driven search tools is a plus). Embraces a people-led, data-backed approach, ideally skilled at using data and digital tools to augment human judgment in decision-making.
- Experience & Education: Bachelor’s degree required or at least a significant demonstrable extra-curricular work experience proving commercial tendencies and appetite. Please note this is about structure and how you would approach a process. We are open to no degree if experience has carved out the necessary processes.
What We Offer
Oldworth is a boutique firm with big-firm standards, our team is small and your voice matters, we have a flat-structure for high responsibility from day one, yet we deliver work at a quality that exceeds global firms, with a current NPS of 100. Expect a supportive team that values humour, humility and unwavering excellence in equal measure.
- Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere (within reach of London) with top-tier technology provided for your home office. Enjoy the autonomy of remote work with the camaraderie of regular in-person team meet-ups in London.
- Client-Facing Impact: An opportunity to be client-facing in a premium setting you’ll engage with C-suite clients and high-caliber candidates, building a high-quality professional network in the process. Your research insights will directly influence key hiring decisions at exciting companies.
- Cutting-Edge Sectors: Exposure to transformative companies in tech-enabled consumer, media, retail, leisure, and hospitality. Each assignment offers a broad view of business in fast-evolving industries, keeping your work fresh and intellectually stimulating. We work at pace to match our clients.
- Culture of Growth: A people-centric culture that celebrates energy, collaboration and fresh thinking. We combine the spark of a start-up with the polish of a top consultancy. You’ll receive mentorship from our founder and be given plenty of room to grow your career (whether that’s advancing within research or evolving toward a consulting role).
If you are excited by the prospect of pairing innovative research with client impact, we’d love to hear from you. Become a core part of Oldworth Consulting’s mission to find transformative leaders by bringing both spark and substance to this experienced researcher appointment.