Construction executive search for contractors, developers and consultancies. Clients include Balfour Beatty, Tilbury Douglas and Currie & Brown.
Oryx provides construction executive search for main contractors, developers, consultancies and specialist subcontractors, covering civils, building, fit-out, residential and commercial development, building services, offsite manufacture, cost consultancy and project management. Senior appointments in construction are judged on a narrow set of proof points: framework and bid record, delivery on live projects, leadership capability, P&L responsibility, commercial control of margin, and a safety and sustainability record that will withstand client scrutiny. We build each search around those criteria before approaching anyone, working with clients including Balfour Beatty, Tilbury Douglas, Currie & Brown, Devonshire Homes and Igloo Regeneration to appoint managing directors, commercial leadership and operational board members. Sub-sector coverage runs from highways, rail and water civils through healthcare, education and industrial building to high-rise and modular residential, and includes the mechanical and electrical, facade and groundworks specialists that sit beneath the main contract.
Retained by contractors, developers and consultancies who cannot afford a miss
Moelven is a major Scandinavian industrial group that processes timber and manufactures sustainable wood-based building products, glulam structures, and modular rooms. Operating across Norway and Sweden, the company produces about 2 million cubic meters of sawn pine and spruce annually. Oryx were retained to recuit the UK Managing Director
urbanest is London’s leading student accommodation provider with eight student properties located in the heart of central London Zone 1. As a result of growth in scale and responsibility urbanest asked Oryx to search for a new Estates Director to take responsibility for developing and delivering the Estates Strategy. A comprehensive piece of research across a range of property management and outsourced facilities services environments resulted in a successful hire who joins in September 2023.
Strawberry Star Group is a specialist provider of property investment and property management services to local and international investors in the London market, including Capital, Acquisitions, Development, Homes, Sales, Lettings and Management. Over recent years the group has become a significant player in the London Real Estate market with over 2,000 properties in the pipeline and £1.4bn of AUM. Working with the Chairman Santhosh Gowda, Oryx recruited the Group CEO.
Our approach as a construction headhunter is research-led rather than database-led. Oryx has been placing leaders in the built environment since 1988, and our full-time in-house research function identifies the people running successful projects and business units today, most of whom are not looking and will not respond to advertised roles. We approach them individually with a considered case for the move, then assess capability and cultural fit through structured interviews and, where useful, psychometric profiling. Clients receive weekly auditable updates and a vetted shortlist within eight weeks. As an employee-owned firm, our construction recruiters are accountable to clients rather than to shareholders. We also support boards through the changes that follow a framework win, an acquisition or a move into a new region, and can provide talent mapping and salary benchmarking as a standalone exercise where a business is testing whether a market can supply the leadership it needs.
Rebecca Ross
Director
26 years with Oryx
Nic Davis
Senior Consultant
11 years with Oryx
Colette Brown
Director
27 years with Oryx
Alex Mitchell
Director
26 years with Oryx
Will Strange
Director
28 years with Oryx
Gemma Killin
Senior Research Manager
12 years with Oryx
Phil Moran
Managing Director
37 years with Oryx
Jon Badger
Senior Research Manager
22 years with Oryx
Alec Berry
Senior Research manager
14 years with Oryx
