Executive search in Cambridge and East Anglia for semiconductor, deeptech, offshore wind and food manufacturing businesses. Established 1988.
Oryx provides executive search in Cambridge and across East Anglia, a region that runs on two quite different economies. Cambridge itself carries one of the highest concentrations of technical talent anywhere in Europe: semiconductor design and processor intellectual property, photonics, quantum computing, scientific instrumentation and a spinout pipeline that turns university research into venture-backed companies faster than almost any other UK city. Out beyond it, the East Anglian coast has become the operational base for the North Sea offshore wind zones, with cable, installation and long-term maintenance businesses working out of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft alongside nuclear generation and new build on the Suffolk coast. The Fens supply a large share of the country's fresh produce and food manufacturing, and Felixstowe handles more container traffic than any other UK port. Leadership requirements across those markets rarely overlap, and the qualified population for a given role is often small enough to count.
Care UK is the UK’s leading outsourced healthcare provider; we have conducted several successful assignments on behalf of the private equity backed organisation. This includes successfully recruiting a Contact Director to lead all of their UK contact centre operations; it was a strategically pivotal role to ensure the critical service Care UK delivers on behalf of NHS 111 continues to see them remain as the market leader.
As one of the UK’s leading construction companies, and a constituent of the FTSE 250, Balfour Beatty is committed to attracting the best possible talent from right across the construction sector. Oryx has successfully handled numerous projects across various parts of the Group, from a Project Director to deliver a pioneering waste-to-energy plant in a complex JV relationship, through to commercial and operational leadership roles for the Highways business.
Founded in 2014, the Aerospace Technology Institute creates the technology strategy for the UK aerospace sector and funds world-class research and development. The ATI promotes transformative technology in air transport and fund world class research and development through a £3.9bn joint government-industry programme. Oryx have supported the ATI with a range of requirements including a Head of Innovation & Sustainability and also completed a recruitment campaign to recruit multiple Technologists across a variety of technical disciplines within the Aerospace Research & Technology landscape. These assignments have required detailed and highly targeted search activity in order to identify and attract people with the breadth and depth of skills that the ATI need in order to drive progressive change and facilitate the UK Aerospace industry’s net zero objectives.