Search & Talent Solutions for
Private Equity Backed and
Privately Owned Businesses
C-Suite Appointments – C-1 Hires – Interim Managers – Pre-hire Talent Mapping – Pay & Reward Benchmarking
Trusted By
Hire Exceptional People. Create Value. Reduce Risk.
The success of a business plan ultimately depends on the people responsible for delivering it.
Whether the objective is accelerated growth, operational improvement, international expansion, transformation or preparation for exit, exceptional leadership can create significant value. The wrong appointment can delay progress, weaken confidence and put the entire plan at risk.
At Marble Hill Partners, we help investors, boards and management teams identify and secure the very best people in the market: proven leaders who can make a measurable difference to business performance.
Finding the Best — Not Simply the Available
The strongest candidates are rarely actively looking for their next role.
They are already delivering results, building teams and creating value elsewhere. Reaching them requires more than advertising a vacancy or searching an existing database.
Our research-led approach gives clients a complete view of the relevant talent market. We systematically identify, assess and engage the individuals with the experience, capability and mindset required to deliver the brief.
This means our clients can make hiring decisions based on the best available evidence — not simply the candidates who happened to apply.
People Who Make a Difference
An impressive career history is not enough.
We look for clear evidence that a candidate has delivered the outcomes our client needs: growing revenue, improving margins, professionalising operations, building leadership capability, integrating acquisitions or preparing a business for its next stage of development.
We assess not only what candidates have achieved, but how they achieved it, the conditions in which they operated and whether their experience can be successfully applied to the new business.
The result is a stronger appointment: someone capable of converting strategy into action and action into value.
Reducing the Risk of a Bad Hire
A poor senior hire is expensive, disruptive and difficult to reverse.
The direct cost of recruitment is only part of the exposure. A failed appointment can lead to lost momentum, delayed initiatives, weakened teams, missed targets and reduced confidence among investors, employees and customers.
Our role is to reduce that risk through rigorous market research, structured assessment, detailed referencing and honest advice throughout the process.
We challenge assumptions, test the evidence and provide clients with the insight needed to make a confident, informed decision.
Protecting the Business Plan
Leadership risk is business-plan risk.
When a critical leader lacks the capability, pace or mindset required by the organisation, the consequences can extend far beyond their own function. Growth slows, decisions are delayed and important milestones begin to slip.
We work backwards from the business plan to define the leadership capability required to deliver it. Every search is shaped around the commercial outcomes the appointment must achieve, the challenges they will face and the contribution they must make to value creation.
This keeps the search focused on what matters most: finding the person who can help the business deliver.
Our Commitment
We do not simply introduce candidates.
We give our clients access to the strongest relevant talent in the market, help them understand the available choices and support them in making one of their most important investment decisions.
Hire exceptional people. Create value. Reduce risk.
Our Track Record
Since 2008, we have supported Private Equity investors, their Portfolio companies, and Private company owners to identify and secure the very best leadership and senior level talent to deliver the investment plan and drive value creation.
Our work spans a few key areas: C-Suite Search, C-1 Search, Pre-Hire Talent Mapping, Pay & Reward Benchmarking and Interim Management provision.
Our market insight and Private Equity knowledge of these ownership models is second to none and as a result, and along with our reputation as experts, we can be a true partner and advisor to our clients as they look to build leadership capability.
Stats
years in the Private Equity and Private ownership market
completed Executive level & Senior search assignments
completed Interim Management assignments
Private Equity Investors partnered with
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of placements are present at the next exit
NPS Score from Clients
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What We Do
We provide Executive & Senior level Search, Talent Insights and Pay Benchmarking, and Interim Management services to Private Equity-backed and Privately Owned businesses in the UK. We build incredible teams using our extensive expertise and our proprietary ‘Right Mindset’ Assessment tool, to introduce highly capable talent to your businesses.
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Our Approach
We partner with Executive Teams and Investors to thoroughly understand their business needs and talent requirements for growth. Our private equity and private company expertise is combined with rigorous research and assessment methodologies allowing us to identify and hire the very best talent in the market, who can then deliver exceptional results.
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Our Mission
We ensure that PE-backed and Private businesses like yours are equipped with the most capable leadership, accelerating growth and creating value. Our goal is to introduce the best talent in the market, ensuring your company reaches its potential and can navigate the nuances that come with these ownership models.
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Our Focus
We work with UK-based Privately Owned or Private Equity-backed businesses in the lower-mid market, with enterprise valuations of between £10m and £250m, across all sectors, both at the point of investment when there is an immediate need to up-skill, as well as throughout the lifecycle for key person changes that can deliver the growth plan.
Roles and Sectors
Our expertise has led us to conduct searches for all Senior and Executive roles including:
- Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
- Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director
- Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Growth Officer
- Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer
- Chief People Officer and Human Resources Director
- Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer
- Chair and Non-executive Director
- Head of e-Commerce and Direct to Consumer
- Head of Sales, Sales Director and Business Development Director
- Chair and Non-executive Director
- Investment Director and Partner
- Interim Management for all of the above
Within:
Automotive ~ Aerospace ~ B2B ~ B2C ~ Banking & Financial Services ~ Business Services ~ Construction ~ Consulting ~ Consumer ~ Education ~ Energy ~ EV Charging ~ Engineering ~ Facilities Management ~ FMCG ~ Healthcare ~ Infrastructure ~ Investment Management ~ Leisure ~ Manufacturing ~ Pharmaceutical ~ Printing ~ Professional Services ~ Property Management ~ Publishing ~ Retail ~ Software ~ Technology ~ Training
C-Suite and C-1
Search
We lead critical searches for C-suite and C-1 level roles with a sharp focus on investor alignment, change-readiness, and cultural fit. Every appointment is made with the value creation plan in mind — fast, focused, and right-first-time.
Alongside this, through our modular search approach, we support the hiring of those reporting into the Exec at C-1 level, identifying high-calibre functional heads that can deliver as well as strengthen the Exec bench for succession — such as Finance Directors, HR leaders, Commercial Heads, and Operations Leads – either at the time you need them or as part of a longer tail.
Interim
Management
Our interim executives are handpicked for their track record in value creation environments.
We maintain a curated network of PE-proven CFOs, COOs, transformation directors, M&A specialists, HR leaders, and functional specialists who understand the pace, pressure, and performance standards of the PE world.
Every candidate is rapidly deployable — often within days — ensuring our clients can respond quickly to critical business needs.
Talent Insights
(pre-hire or pre-fire)
Before any hire is made, we offer pre-hire talent mapping to bring market clarity and reduce risk. Whether used pre-deal, pre-search, or during growth planning, our talent mapping provides a real-world view of leadership availability, competitive positioning, and succession options.
This intelligence informs sharper role specifications and enables confident, data-led decision making, so when you decide to bring in new Leaders, you are a step ahead of that process.
Pay & Reward
Benchmarking
Our pay & reward benchmarking service helps ensure your leadership compensation is competitive, aligned, and structured for performance.
We benchmark total reward across relevant comparators, advise on incentive design, and support remuneration committees and investors in creating packages that attract, retain, and motivate the leaders you need.
What Some Of Our Clients Say
“I have used the Marble Hill team several times for Executive and Senior level recruitment and they have delivered on time on each occasion, against some difficult requirements. I find they are particularly good at finding candidates who are more regionally based outside of London, that other head-hunters often fail to identify. I find their communication style is second to none and what really impresses me is the great feedback of the experience that is given by the candidates – both successful and unsuccessful – this is really important. I would highly recommend James and the team!”
“We needed a CFO with a profile that could make an immediate impact on this business, especially as we get closer to an exit process. Marble Hill Partners knew our space very well and their track record meant they intuitively knew the core competencies needed for this person, and understood the level of success that we were looking for, as this hire was critical to us. The search process had good pace, with some great candidates being shortlisted, which really gave us confidence we would find the right person. End to end it has been a great search process and I would recommend Marble Hill Partners.”
“Marble Hill Partners have successfully placed 3 Managing Directors within our investment portfolio over the last few years.
They carefully adapted each search to our requirements and worked side by side with us as we engaged the talent market with very specific criteria, for what are always critical positions for the growth of our portfolio businesses and value creation.
I would definitely recommend Marble Hill Partners to any Investor looking to identify and add high quality executive and senior leadership talent into one of their portfolio businesses.”
It is all about “The Right Mindset”
From our extensive Exec Search experience and having conducted an independent psychological research study, we know that the high-pressured nature of private equity ownership is not for everyone, and believe that it takes a certain ‘type’ of person to navigate it.
Our research scientifically proved this belief, and since then, has been a core part of our candidate assessment process, and is the foundation of our ‘Mindset Assessment’.
Download a copy of our insights into the ‘Right Mindset’ to learn about:
- Our research methodology
- How to utilise the Right Mindset
- Consequences of having the wrong mindset
- Variations by differing business functions
- How to apply the Right Mindset
It is all about “The Right Mindset”
The high-pressure nature of the private equity environment is not for everyone, and we have always believed that it takes a certain ‘type’ of person to navigate it.
Our research proved this belief, and since then, has been a core part of our process, and is the foundation of our ‘Mindset Assessment’.
Download a copy of our insights into the ‘Right Mindset’ below to learn about:
- Our research methodology
- How to utilise the Right Mindset
- Consequences of having the wrong mindset
- Variations by differing business functions
- How to apply the Right Mindset