Partner - Executive Search

You’ve built your reputation. What do you want to build next?

You know executive search. You’ve built trusted relationships, developed a strong network and earned credibility with senior leaders.

Now you may be looking for more autonomy, more opportunity to shape your market and a platform that backs you to keep building.

As a Partner | Executive Search with Davidson Executive & Talent, you’ll lead senior appointments, grow trusted client relationships and help shape our executive search capability nationally.

About Davidson

For 35 years, Davidson has helped organisations make better decisions about their people, capability and future direction.

Today, we bring together expertise across strategy, people and technology.

Within Davidson Executive & Talent, we partner with organisations to secure and support specialist talent, from early career professionals through to executive and board leaders.

The opportunity

This is a senior role with genuine autonomy.

You’ll work directly with chief executive officers, boards and executive leaders on appointments where experience and judgement matter. You’ll own your client relationships; lead retained search assignments and build a portfolio around your strengths and network.

You’ll also influence how our executive search capability grows, while drawing on the relationships and expertise across Davidson.

You’ll:

• Lead C-suite, board and senior executive search assignments.
• Build and grow a sustainable portfolio of retained search clients.
• Advise senior leaders on roles, markets and leadership requirements.
• Develop search strategies and lead assignments from briefing through to appointment.
• Bring market insight, sound judgement and structured assessment to every search.
• Build relationships that lead to repeat work and long-term partnerships.
• Share relationships, opportunities and expertise across Davidson.

What you’ll bring

You’re an established executive search or senior recruitment professional who knows how to build a market, not just deliver an assignment.

You’ll bring:

• Strong executive search or senior recruitment experience.
• Credibility with chief executive officers, boards and senior leaders.
• A track record of winning work and developing lasting client relationships.
• An established professional network.
• Commercial acumen and confidence developing new opportunities.
• Strong assessment, stakeholder management and advisory skills.
• Sound judgement, integrity and a genuine commitment to candidate care.

Most importantly, you know that great executive search is built on trust, good judgement and relationships that last.

Why Davidson?

You’ve already proven you can build a successful career. We’ll give you the room to keep building it.

You’ll have autonomy to shape your market, direct access to senior leaders and opportunities to collaborate across our whole team Davidson Executive & Talent, Davidson Strategy & Performance and Davidson Technology Consulting.

You’ll also have genuine flexibility, development opportunities and recognition for individual and team contributions.

And we make time to enjoy the wins, with high achievers’ lunches, monthly celebration hours, values awards, steak and chips nights, and an annual sales incentive trip for top performers.

Ready for what’s next?

If you want the freedom to build trusted client relationships, lead important appointments and have a voice in the future of Davidson Executive & Talent, we’d like to meet you.

Apply now to start the conversation.