About Us

We give clients an edge by taking talent hunting to the next level: placing the leaders who win complex business, with rigour rather than reach.

Strategic search success rate

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Searches delivered

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Markets across UK & Europe

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The model

The person who takes the brief is the person who delivers it.

A

No account managers,
no handoffs

For business-critical roles where confidentiality, thoroughness, and a guaranteed outcome matter most. Fully retained, managed end-to-end by Ian personally.
B

Two commercial models, one standard

Fully retained executive search, or strategic search with no upfront retainer. Same process, same rigour, chosen around your situation.
The firm

We find the leaders other firms
cannot reach.

Affinity is a focused executive search practice for defence, aerospace and technical sales. We work on the roles that decide programmes and pipelines, where the right hire is rarely the candidate already applying.

Most engagements are filled from passive talent: senior people who are not on the market and will only move for the right brief, handled discreetly. That is where a contingency model breaks down and a structured search delivers.

It is precision strike instead of carpet bombing. That is the only way to describe what Affinity does.

Former Air Force Colonel

Aerospace & Defence client

Why Affinity

Why clients choose to work with us.

01

Brief and market map

We agree the real requirement, then map the complete candidate market so you see who exists, not only who is available.

02

Discreet approach

We approach passive senior talent directly and confidentially, qualifying motivation, fit and commercial credibility before you ever see a name.

03

Shortlist and assessment

You receive a calibrated shortlist with the reasoning behind each candidate, not a stack of CVs to filter yourself.

04

Offer and close

We manage offer, negotiation and resignation to a guaranteed outcome, staying involved through to a confirmed start.

How a search runs

A defined process, run end to end.

The Founder

Meet Ian Anderson.

We give our clients an edge over their competition, by taking their talent hunting activity to the next level. We offer much more than specialist contingency recruitment agencies and provide our clients with not just the best available candidates, but the best candidates, period.

We have a 100% success rate with our Strategic Search offering.
This offers the same methodical process as executive search but applied to any business-critical role, quite often without the upfront fee and at no additional cost to normal contingency recruitment services.

This process is guaranteed to deliver high quality results providing you with a complete picture of the entire candidate market.

This is a unique offering that we are only able to offer because we know it works and can be certain of the results.

If you have job openings that you are finding particularly difficult to fill and need guaranteed results we’d love to discuss them with you. The more challenging the better!

Ian Anderson

Founder