Recruitment Founder/Director with Investment for growth

5 days ago


UK, UK, United Kingdom Higher Success Full time

Whilst seeking a new opportunity in the Recruitment world have you got to point where you love what you do but you wish you were building something for yourself and your future? Are you thinking of setting up a Recruitment Agency, but need to partner with specialists that can help you with all the back office and with growth and strategy. Would you love to work with people that have successful scaled many recruitment agencies from start up?


Higher Success are working with an investment business that are seeing Recruitment founders whom are specialist in any Professional recruitment market offering full investment packages whilst taking a minority stake in your business so that you can keep control autonomy and decision making.


They are open to investing in recruitment founders in Australia and the wider APAC regions. They are also open to investing in Europe, Middle East and North America. Their current portfolio has businesses in APAC and Australia and their central offices support offices in London, Dubai, USA, and all over APAC. They are keen to invest in Healthcare recruitment (Doctors), Technology, Renewable energy, HR recruitment, Life sciences any many others. They are also open minded to other sectors that are lucrative and do not compete with current businesses in the group. They have a preference to invest in white collar professional markets with a specialism rather than generalist agencies.


Key details

  1. Can start as a Single founder or in a partnership
  2. They have decades of experience establishing and growing global recruitment brands. The CEO built a Recruitment business and sold for 7 figures before launching their investment business.
  3. 6 businesses in the group currently and looking for more investment options.
  4. 80% of the decision is to invest in the person, that is motivated, have a strong business plan and a vision on how to grow and show a high level of commitment in the process and in building a business.


Having a community of high achieving ambitious business leaders working together

Founders also benefit from a diverse non competing recruitment community working towards a common goals. You will work closely with other leaders in the group.

  1. Shared training and development
  2. Networking
  3. Opportunity sharing
  4. Problem solving and support from other leaders
  5. Economies of scale for suppliers etc


How much will they invest in your business?

Investment and funding level will depend on the business plan, how much co-investment the founder is putting in, what stake they will take, how quick they will scale and what markets they are in etc. They look at each investment as a separate business case and work out with the Founder the level of investment both parties will put into the business.

You will need to co-invest and have funding to put into the business yourself for growth.


What areas of support will I receive?

  1. Investment and cash injection for growth based on an agreed business plan.
  2. Back office support - more details below
  3. Support and business coaching and mentoring
  4. Succession & Exit Planning

You will be able to focus purely on Candidates clients and developing their consultants to be high achieving and successful and let the expects take care of everything else.


What back office support is available?

  1. Finance support
  2. Legal
  3. Tech support
  4. Systems
  5. HR
  6. Talent acquisition to hire consultants to help growth
  7. People Management support
  8. Branding and Marketing
  9. Training (e.g. weekly training sessions for new recruiters with one of the senior leaders)


How are they different to other investors?

Investment options for Recruitment businesses usually are small individuals or businesses that offer financial input but no other support, mentoring or back office etc. The other option is big investment businesses that will offer back office, mentoring exit planning etc, but they take a majority stake. This option allows you to have all the support a larger investment business would give but lets you keep control and decision making power.


What is the process?

  1. A call with Higher Success to go over your experience and your future plans
  2. A call with with the CEO
  3. Budget completion (with support from the group CFO)
  4. 2x calls or meetings to develop business plan and strategy


Ideally you will have the following background

  • At least 4 years 360 recruitment experience in an agency background
  • At least 3 years experience growing a successful high billing desk in a lucrative market.
  • Resilience and ability to stick to a project long term to grow a market
  • Self motivated and head strong to achieve your goals
  • Long term ambition to be incredibly successful and hard working to get there.
  • Very strong business development experience
  • Ideally you will have had management or mentoring experience of junior consultants. There will be training and support on management side if you haven't got extensive experience.


If you are looking for investment and are motivated and committed to building and scaling a successful recruitment business. Please get in touch.

*Please note if you are looking to go self employed but not scale a business with other consultants and want to work independently as a sole recruiter we also have options for this, so please do get in touch.


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