Business Manager – Hays Executive

hays

London, England

£42000.0 - £80000.0 per annum + (£70k OTE in Year 1)

Full Time

Non CIPD member

8 July 2026

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We are seeking a consultative Business Manager or above to join our flagship London office in our Executive Search and Interim team. As a Business Manager or above, your primary focus will be to engage with C-suite candidates and clients within the interim market.

Based in London, you will have a UK-wide remit. You will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for interim leadership roles within either the Public Sector or private sector. The desks in this market derive success from repeat and white space business, billing over £650k per annum. You will recruit C-Suite and Director level roles across specialisms and will need to build strong internal and external relationships.


Your new team

This is an opportunity for an experienced consultant to join one of Hays' fastest growing businesses with a structured plan to develop the business and grow your own career and earnings. Uniquely, we have an extensive portfolio of current and previous users, not just of Hays Executive, but of the wider Hays UK specialist business to leverage leadership opportunities. This positions us ahead of our competition, who do not have the UK's wide depth and breadth of service across the range of specialisms Hays deliver. As you would expect, our clients require comprehensive support in all elements of leadership hiring, and we therefore engage significantly with the Hays Solutions business to deliver Assessment and Development, Benchmarking and DE&I consultancy services. The Hays team are genuinely market leading and add real value to our clients holistically when engaging and delivering C-suite talent.This team has shown resolve and resilience in the market with consistent growth in fee generation alongside headcount within the team.

Your new role

The responsibilities include:

  • Developing and maintaining strong relationships with C-suite and key decision makers.
  • Actively seeking and engaging with directors & C-suite candidates/clients.
  • Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for interim roles.
  • Managing Interim Search campaigns and delivering methodology that provides success
  • Collaboratively working with our RPO/MSP business, HR service lines and wider senior-level recruitment consultants to deliver a joined-up service
  • Delivering trickledown value to the wider Hays business by leveraging further business from leadership placements for other specialisms
  • Working hand in glove with specialisms such as HR, Senior Finance, Technology and Construction & Property to develop candidate relationships with their clients, and to ensure the flow of leads and commercial information.


Due to the fee potential already in the area and the potential we have here, to be successful you will need to meet the following criteria: You will have experience as a Business Manager or above as well as a proven track record in business development and recruitment. You will need to have had experience working with senior level candidates and clients to understand the complexities of a search function.

What you’ll get in return

As a multi-award-winning employer of choice, we believe as part of the employee and employer deal at Hays, we can give you a career with unrivalled progression. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays. Our colleagues describe our culture as ‘high energy’, ‘inclusive’, and ‘great people’ with a ‘growth mindset’.In addition, you will enjoy:

  • Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
  • Regular performance-based incentive programmes include all-expense paid international trips.
  • A culture underpinned by trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity and doing the right thing.
  • Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
  • A global brand with established PSL agreements and warm client relationships
  • An adult approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
  • The opportunity to work in any of our 32 other countries through our global mobility offering
  • Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing initiatives and wider benefits

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