As the Head of Executive Search at MercSec, a Mercuras Group Company, I am tasked with the identification, attraction, and ultimately, recruitment of the optimal talent for our clients. This covers Professional Services across Governance, Risk, and Compliance disciplines with a focus on information management & security practice.

Optume Consulting is an agency dedicated to sourcing senior candidates for the Professional Services and Management Consulting sectors. Our main focus from an advisory skill set perspective is: Operational and Performance Consulting (Lean, Six Sigma etc.), Shared Services, BPO and Finance Transformation. Procurement and Supply Chain. We work with a handful of core clients, and these range from Big4 firms to small specialist consulting firms.As the candidate, you naturally need to know how and why we can help you.We work on opportunities on the worldwide basis, and commonly these roles are unique to us. We know our clients well and we know the kind of candidates they are looking to speak with.We ensure that time is taken to fully understand what you are looking for, both in terms of potential opportunities and also generally in terms of your overall career.We ensure we understand the organisational culture that suits you best, the type of people who best compliment you, and most importantly your motivation and reasons for looking into making a change.We will not shoe-horn you into a role that is not suitable for you. We will not press you into accepting an offer you have doubts about. We let you make the decisions about your career and the next all important move.In short, you can look upon us as a true partner when it comes to your career development.www.optume.co.uk

Senior search consultant. Main focus from an industry point of view is the Professional Services and Management Consulting arena at Manager to Director/Partner level. Primary focus within Professional Services and Consulting is; Finance Transformation, BPO, Outsourcing – Offshoring, Supply Chain, Procurement, Human Capital Management, Shared Services, Business process Re-engineering, General Advisory and Information Technology Consulting. The emphasis on our service, and my skills as a trusted recruiter, is to find those all elusive candidates who are not active in the market and are not active in looking for opportunities, in essence presenting the best of the best with the exceptional career opportunities that our clients offer and ensuring they have a compelling reason to move.As we all know, the best candidates are not looking at job boards particularly if they are not in the market for a move but they are out there and can be found. Geographic focus is Australia, Singapore and Europe. If you are a candidate falling in to the aforementioned areas and you would like a confidential discussion as to what is out there, please feel free to reach out.

A senior Consultant with strong exposure to the Management Consulting industries. Primarily focusing on senior management, Director and Principal roles within these industries. Working with clients who fall within the tier one and tier two space. A fair amount of recent work has focused on the Resources, Consumer Goods, CFO Services, Finance and Performance Management, Sustainability, Climate Change and Green space. In summary, senior people who fall into both the Consulting and Corporate sectors with a Strategy and Business Improvement focus.

Working for Wolters Kluwer (Croner) through BPS in the exec B2B development team. Focus on lead generation and high level appointment setting with 'C' level corporate for the WK and Croner Account Directors to introduce the interactive and consulting offerings across Business, Tax, Accounting, Finance and Healthcare.

Amongst various long term overseas travelling expeditions (6 months here, 6 months there and 12 months everywhere else) I held a couple of senior roles in recruitment both in Australia and England (moved to Australia in 1999 from England). Focusing on Professional Services and senior IT people within Finance and Banking.

Financial services, mortgage broking, pensions, shares and investments.

Chef work.