Executive Search Consultant

This role is titled Executive Search Consultant, but it is designed as a structured transition into senior executive search for recruiters with 1-3 years’ experience.

You won’t be expected to arrive as a fully formed consultant.

You will be expected to grow into one, deliberately, with structure, coaching and accountability.

If you’re currently in recruitment and feeling limited by:

• Speed over judgement
• Volume over credibility

This role is a step up, not a sideways move.

Why this role exists

At Fraser Dove International, we hire with intent.

At Fraser Dove International, we hire experienced recruiters with a clear objective: to develop future Executive Search Consultants and future leaders of our business.

Over the past decade, we’ve built a proven track record of developing high-performing contingent recruiters into trusted executive search consultants.

Many of our senior consultants and leaders began their careers in contingent environments before joining FDI, and went on to:

• Lead complex, retained executive searches globally
• Build long-term client partnerships across multiple geographical locations
• Take on leadership roles across Farnham, London, New York and Basel

This role exists to continue that journey, properly structured and properly supported.

The purpose of this role

This role exists to help you transition from delivery-led recruitment into relationship-led executive search.

You are here to:

• Build commercial confidence beyond job-led conversations
• Headhunt exceptional, passive global talent
• Develop influence with senior stakeholders
• Rebuild your network at executive level
• Learn how executive search work is won before it is delivered
• Prepare for full ownership as an Executive Search Consultant
• You are not measured on speed or volume.

You are measured on network strength, pipeline growth, quality of conversations, insight generated and opportunities created.

Where you sit in the business

You’ll work closely with some of the most experienced Principals and Partners in the firm. You’ll see first-hand:

• How senior client relationships are built and sustained
• How consultative market insights and intelligence is delivered
• How leadership hiring decisions are shaped long before mandates are signed
• How judgement, insight and credibility influence outcomes
• How executive search differs fundamentally from recruitment

You will not be pushed straight back into delivery.

This is a retraining phase, designed to raise your ceiling, not repeat your past. You’ll be trusted with real responsibility early, contributing to work that directly shapes client outcomes, long-term relationships and the growth of the firm.

What you’ll actually be doing

Network Growth & Relationship Building

• Growing and curating high-quality networks of senior life sciences leaders
• Researching and mapping leadership ecosystems across target organisations and markets
• Supporting thoughtful, professional outreach and warm introductions
• Strengthening relationships through structured, consistent follow-up
• Maintaining a living, high-value network that underpins our search and advisory work
• Researching companies, leadership teams, ownership structures and growth signals
• Identifying hiring trends, succession risks and capability gaps
• Contributing to Talent Intelligence and market insight shared with clients
• Feeding real-time intelligence into commercial, advisory and strategic conversations

Pipeline Development, Opportunity Creation & Business Development

• Supporting early-stage client conversations and strategic introductions
• Helping prepare Principals and Partners for meetings, pitches and discussions
• Learning how commercial influence works in executive search - without “selling”
• Supporting follow-ups that convert conversations into long-term partnerships
• Helping ensure momentum, insight and opportunity are never lost

High-Impact Partner & Team Support

• Working alongside senior consultants on priority initiatives
• Supporting podcasts, events, round tables and wider community activity
• Acting as a connector across people, information and opportunity
• Helping turn insight into action across the business

Who this role is for

This role is ideal if you:

• Have 1–3 years’ experience in recruitment (contin…