Top Talent for Building Products & Construction

Why work with us?

Collingwood Executive Search is a leading expert in the recruitment and development of leaders and specialist skilled talent in the Building Products & Construction sector.

With more than 19 years' experience recruiting for companies ranging from SMEs to global corporations in this industry, our clients keep returning due to our 97% success rate and our proven ability to deliver the talent they need to succeed and thrive.

We recruit candidates from within the industry but also attract high calibre talent from outside it too.

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We listen and understand your situation, needs and vision

We will be honest in our feedback and will develop a bespoke recruitment strategy for you

We work relentlessly to find the right talent for you

Strengthening the Foundations of Your Business

At Collingwood we live our success through you. What we care about most is helping our clients meet their goals. We understand how critical getting recruitment right first time around is and won't stop until we find a solution for you. Common feedback from our clients is how relentless and resilient we are!

Many of our clients have been with us for more than 10 years and our longest partnership started in 2006. We are very proud of the aspirational clients that we work with and love bringing their stories to life to inspire and entice the candidates they need to deliver success to their businesses. We recruit Board, Senior and Specialist roles across all business disciplines.

We are a values-driven team of very experienced recruitment specialists and consult with our clients to add the maximum value we can.

If you are looking for a true value adding recruitment partnership and not just a transaction to gather CVs then please contact us today.

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Why 99% of our clients return

97% of our assignments were successfully filled last year by building collaborative partnerships

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Recruitment Success

We know that recruiting high performing professionals to take your business forward can leave you feeling highly frustrated and underwhelmed as many recruiters just don’t deliver what you need. Or you think they have found the right candidate, but after a short period you realise they are just not what you need, or they have decided to move on! We can take this stress away for you and ensure you invest in talent that helps deliver your strategic objectives!

Having successfully recruited 97% of the roles we were retained on last year and with 99% of our clients returning, we know we will delight you.

The key to our success is the way we collaborate with our clients and the relentlessness with which we deliver all our assignments. Recruitment is tough and so this is key.

Our team of executive search consultants are experts in their sectors, understanding their markets and the talent landscape thoroughly. To help you create and build high performing teams with the very best talent the market has to offer.

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Meet Doug Mackay

Managing Director

I’m Doug Mackay, Managing Director of Collingwood Executive Search, a specialist executive recruitment firm based in the North-West of England. Since 1998, I’ve been helping organisations from start-ups to global corporates, across the UK, Europe and North America, to attract and retain outstanding leadership talent. In 2005, I co-founded Collingwood with my wife, Claire Mackay, to deliver a values-driven approach

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Our Case Studies in Building Products and Construction

SHEQ Director Recruitment | Collingwood Executive Search

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Frequently Asked Questions

We are not a ‘typical recruitment agency’. We are specialists in Executive Search and Advertising-Led Selection. Our Executive Search consultants meet with you to understand your company culture and vision, business strategy and, of course, the role you need to recruit. Our highly skilled and experienced researchers and Executive Search consultants will work together to identify, entice and engage with the sought group of target candidates in order to successfully recruit the role.

To find out more simply book a free consultation call with our Managing Director, Doug Mackay.

If you don’t want to waste time and money on substandard hires and want to recruit the right person first time for your senior appointments, executive search is a robust and highly successful method of recruitment. But finding the right Executive Search company is critical!

We have helped our clients find highly skilled, culturally aligned, and high performing employees since 2005. They have enabled our clients to improve, strengthen and ultimately add value to their company. Our specialist Executive Search team is dedicated to aiding our clients not just in hiring the best they can by providing data centred market insights but creating and defining those senior leaders / teams.

You will not only make the best appointment you can, but you will also invaluable market intelligence and general support throughout and once the recruitment process has successfully ended.

A partnership with Collingwood Executive Search will ensure you are well informed through regular update meetings and communication which helps to develop a collaborative and effective relationship with you.

Find out more about partnering with Collingwood Executive Search here.

Although we do consider senior level roles within all sectors, we have developed Collingwood around a core number of industries and sectors. Our expertise here enables us to add more value to our clients as we live and breath their industries and are able to provide bespoke talent advice based on factual data.

Since 2005 we have been building our networks and partnerships in the following industries and sectors:

All senior appointments can vary depending on the role that you are hiring for, and how niche the sought skill set, or experience might be. Other factors which also impact will be salary and location. All our recruitment assignments are project mile-stoned for a period of between 4 and 8 weeks through to our delivery of a candidate shortlist. However, we will listen to your needs and provide a suitable solution. For example, where a hire is very urgent, we could provide a more flexible approach focused on introducing candidates as we find them. Key to timescales is the initial groundwork completed by our consultants whilst collaborating with our clients – understanding their business, the role and candidate requirements fully. Collaboration with our clients has proved to be the most important factor when ensuring the successful delivery of an executive search project.

In the rare case that a suitable candidate cannot be found that aligns to your initial brief, we will use the live market data to help guide the project to a successful outcome. It maybe that you need to compromise on an element of your requirements, but we will inform our discussion with facts that we have found from the project and also from our own experience in your industry. No matter what the situation, Collingwood are here to help you find that perfect fit and will always do our upmost to ensure your hiring role is filled first time, with the best talent the market has to offer! 97% of our retained searches were delivered successfully last year.

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