Digital/Technology Search Executive

Digital/Technology Search Executive Homebased with travel to sites 6 Month Contract Day Rate from £450 via Umbrella Company, DOE

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My client specialises in the delivery of essential public services, with over 50,000 people working in defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare, and other citizen services across our four regions: UK Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Middle East. They are looking for a Digital/Technology Search Executive to join them on a 6 month contract supporting a focused programme of senior technology hiring across Group.

The position is approximately 80% homebased with 20% travel to sites, predominantly London and Solihull, with travel expenses paid. You will be working Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm. This role will support the delivery of seven senior leadership appointments, with typical salary levels ranging from £120,000 to £180,000.

The searches will cover critical areas including data and AI, product and engineering, business applications, infrastructure, architecture, digital portfolio delivery and digital governance. You will work closely with the Talent Acquisition team, senior technology stakeholders and HR colleagues to build high-quality candidate pipelines, provide market insight and support the delivery of a structured, professional search process.

Key responsibilities

• You will be responsible for identifying, mapping and engaging senior technology talent across relevant markets. This will include building target company lists, researching leadership structures, identifying suitable candidates and approaching passive talent directly.
• You will create longlists, candidate profiles and market maps to support live search activity, ensuring that each assignment has a strong and well-qualified pipeline.
• You will also provide insight on candidate availability, market response, compensation expectations, competitor structures and relevant talent pools.
• You will support candidate engagement throughout the search process, helping to assess initial suitability, understand motivations and provide a high-quality candidate experience.
• You will ensure candidate information, tracking documents and search updates are accurate, clear and up to date.
• You will work across multiple senior mandates at once, maintaining momentum while ensuring that quality, discretion and attention to detail are not compromised.

What you'll be doing

• Building detailed talent maps across digital, technology and transformation leadership markets.
• Identifying senior candidates across data, AI, product, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, enterprise applications, digital delivery and governance.
• Creating target company lists across relevant sectors and comparable organisations.
• Approaching and engaging passive senior candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, executive search tools, referrals and direct sourcing.
• Preparing candidate profiles, briefing notes, longlists and market insight summaries.
• Supporting search strategy and calibration with the Talent Acquisition team and senior stakeholders.
• Tracking candidate activity accurately and maintaining clean, reliable search data.
• Providing insight on market response, candidate motivations, salary expectations and competitor organisations.
• Supporting diversity of slate by exploring broader talent pools and challenging narrow search assumptions.

What you'll need

• Experience in executive search, senior recruitment, talent research or direct sourcing, ideally within technology, digital or transformation markets.
• Experience identifying and engaging passive senior candidates.
• Strong research and market mapping skills.
• The ability to understand complex senior briefs quickly and translate them into a clear search strategy.
• Confidence approaching senior candidates and discussing leadership-level opportunities.
• Excellent written communication, with the ability to produce clear candidate summaries and market insight.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage accurate candidate tracking.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter or similar sourcing tools.
• The ability to manage several senior searches at the same time.

Useful experience

• Experience supporting senior technology or digital appointments.
• Knowledge of markets including data, AI, product, engineering, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, business applications, ERP, digital transformation, portfolio delivery or technology governance.
• Experience working in an executive search firm, in-house search team, RPO, senior recruitment function or talent research environment.
• Experience recruiting into large, complex organisations, listed businesses, technology services, outsourcing, consulting, regulated environments or public services.
• Experience producing market maps, talent intelligence, competitor analysis or candidate reports.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.

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