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Explore examples of how Bailey Montagu has supported organisations in securing exceptional leadership talent. These case studies highlight the challenges, search requirements and successful appointments delivered across a range of sectors and business environments.

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FTSE Small Cap Listed Company

Builders Merchants business with strong growth ambitions.

AIM Listed Company

Industrial supplies business with revenues of £500m from multiple locations in the UK. The business has been highly acquisitive and...

Group CEO

Airea Plc is an AIM listed manufacturer of floor tiles; head quartered near Wakefield, the company uses a two-stage process...

Global Operations & Supply Chain Director

The client is a prominent and highly regarded supplier of global specialty solutions to the life sciences sector. With operations...

Transport Planning Director

Our client was a global engineering, architecture and consultancy firm employing 16,000 people worldwide. Its UK transport planning discipline had...

Strategic skill hiring program

Facing the challenge of candidate shortages in Management Consultant and Principal Consultant levels, as well as consultation, Bailey Montagu was...

Pre IPO Team

In 2016, Bailey Montagu was recommended to speak to a client who was, at the time, looking to strengthen their...

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MD, Strategy & Business Development

We were asked by one of our valued automotive clients to source a newly created role, Managing Director, Strategy &...

Head of Americas (CEO successor)

To support on-going exponential growth, our long-term client – a private equity backed global innovation and transformation consultancy – retained...

Managing Director, Transportation UK & Europe

The incoming President of our long-term client – a leading global engineering and project management consultancy – approached Bailey Montagu...

HLP Consulting (Middle East)

Having been approached by PwC to support a Partner hire for their Capital Projects & Infrastructure practice in the Middle...

Chief Operating Officer

This private equity backed UK and European food producer was looking to appoint a Chief Operating Officer to assume responsibility...

Senior Vice President, International Construction

Our client is a Fortune500 global EPC business, offering significant project and programme management expertise to their clients in Energy,...

Group Finance Director

Following a Private Equity backed MBO, by a large mid-cap investor, our client required a Sales Director with significant international...

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Motorsport OEM and Race Series Organiser

Having worked closely with the main board of Directors for a number of years, we were delighted to be involved...

Global Energy & Utilities Lead

Our client – a private equity backed global innovation and transformation consultancy – sees Energy & Utilities as a key...

Chief People Officer

As a close ally to the newly appointed CEO of our consulting client, we were quickly enlisted to support several...

UK & Ireland CEO

Owing to our reputation in the sector, the Group CEO of a leading professional services firm specialising in the built...

Planning Director

Having recently appointed the regional CEO for a leading professional services firm specialising in the built environment, Bailey Montagu was...

Global Market Sector Leader, Technology

Having consistently supported the acquisition of Partner and Director level hires in the business advisory capability of our engineering and...

Sales Director – Specialist Engineering Manufacturer

Following a Private Equity backed MBO, by a large mid-cap investor, our client required a Sales Director with significant international...

Construction Senior Leadership Team

This tall buildings project was complex owing to the building height and the structural design to pair both concrete and...

Capital Projects & Infrastructure Partner

We were approached by PwC to support a Partner hire for their Capital Projects & Infrastructure practice in the Middle...

CEO Telecare/Tele-health

Following the identified opportunity to accelerate the growth of an under-developed Telecare/Telehealth subsidiary by the private equity investor, Bailey Montagu...

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Interim HR Director

We were introduced to a client who are a global leader across the full range of services in the Commercial...

Managing Director Real Estate and Infrastructure

As a long-term partner to the firm, we were instructed to identify the P&L owner for their regional real estate...

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CEO

Bailey Montagu was retained to secure a Chief Executive Officer. Our initial approach was to understand the market within the...

Interim CFO

Our client is a leading international manufacturing company, specialising in the production of packaging materials. Confidence in the accuracy of...

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Managing Director, Cold Storage

Our client is a leading global shipping group with more than 30,000 employees worldwide and over $20 billion in revenue....

Head of Legal & Compliance

Having recently signed a memorandum of understanding for a long-term land lease to build a new fabrication and marine complex,...

Interim Plant Manager

Our client is a prominent player in the building materials industry, and had invested a significant amount in new capital...

Interim Head of Sales & Operations Planning

We were asked to help a global manufacturing company, which provides a wide range of high performance materials for use...

Group Finance Director – Leisure / Travel

It wished to replace its incumbent Group Finance Director. The objective was to inject a greater degree of leadership over...

Group Finance Director – Construction

The organisation had been through a phase of both significant organic growth, alongside growth through the conclusion of several successful...

Director of E-Commerce

The brief was to identify a candidate who would create an industry leading omni-channel proposition consistent with rapidly evolving consumer...

Group Property Director

Our client is the UK’s leading provider of business process management and support service solutions with a turnover of £5...

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How clients engage

Engagements shaped around the moment

Urgent leadership cover

When continuity is critical and timeframes are compressed.

Board-level appointments

Supporting considered, high-stakes decisions at the most senior level.

Periods of transition or change

From transformation to post-acquisition integration.

Sensitive or confidential searches

Where discretion, trust and judgement are essential.

A considered approach, tailored to context

No two leadership situations are the same. We take time to understand the organisational context, stakeholders and sensitivities before shaping an approach that fits the moment.

Whether the requirement is urgent or long-term, our focus is on clarity, judgement and outcomes that endure.

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