How we can work together
Executive search remains at the heart of Westcliffe Partnerships, but talent challenges rarely begin and end with a vacancy.
Our work spans search, market intelligence, future talent identification, specialist outplacement, internal headhunting capability and employer branding, all built around one thing: a deep understanding of the flavours, fragrances and functional ingredients market.
Talent Mapping
Know your market before you need it.
Not every talent question needs to begin with a vacancy.
We map specialist talent populations, competitor teams and potential succession options so clients can understand who exists, where they sit and how realistic their future hiring plans are.
That might mean exploring an unfamiliar geography, understanding a particularly scarce technical population or identifying future leaders long before a role becomes urgent.
Specialist Outplacement
Career transition, with industry context.
Generic outplacement can only go so far in a specialist market.
We provide one to one support for mid to senior professionals leaving flavours, fragrances and ingredients businesses, combining career coaching with direct knowledge of the companies, roles and people operating within the sector.
Support can include positioning, CV and LinkedIn review, interview preparation, career strategy and navigating the market.
Executive Search
Finding pivotal people.
For specialist and senior appointments where understanding the market matters.
We work exclusively on retained and committed searches, taking the time to understand why the hire matters, what success actually looks like and where the relevant talent exists across the market.
Our specialism means we can look beyond titles and CV keywords to understand technologies, applications, customers, competitors and where experience will genuinely transfer.
Every assignment is managed directly by Francesca from briefing through to completion.
HR Headhunter Training
Build the capability in house.
Sometimes the answer should be to hire a headhunter.
Sometimes it should be to become better at headhunting yourselves.
We train HR and Talent Acquisition teams in the practical skills behind proactive recruitment, from qualifying a brief and mapping a market to identifying, approaching and engaging passive candidates.
Training can be delivered virtually to distributed teams and adapted around the organisation's existing recruitment capability. Best suited for smaller organisations.
Intelligence & Insights
Better talent decisions start with better information.
Every day we speak with people across one highly specialised global market.
Those conversations reveal things traditional datasets often cannot: what candidates are being paid, why people are leaving, which skills are becoming harder to find, how competitors are structuring teams and what the market is actually responding to.
We turn that knowledge into practical intelligence clients can use.
Employer Branding Media
Give people a reason to want to join you.
The strongest candidate outreach still struggles if the market cannot see what makes an organisation interesting.
Through our sister company, Westcliffe Landings, we help businesses bring their people, culture and working environment to life through authentic employer branding content and media.
Rather than polished corporate messaging, the focus is on giving prospective talent a credible view of the organisation they might actually join.
One market. Six ways we support it.
Need someone now?
Executive Search
Need to know who exists?
Talent Mapping
Need to understand the market?
Intelligence & Insights
Need to support someone leaving?
Specialist Outplacement
Want to build capability internally?
HR Headhunting Training
Need the market to understand you better?
Employer Branding Media
