Executive Search in Brighton

Oryx provides executive search in Brighton and across Sussex, a market with a profile of its own rather than a smaller version of the capital's. The city carries a dense digital and creative economy of software, games and product businesses, much of it venture or privately backed and much of it hiring its first professional functional leadership. Alongside that sits a substantial visitor economy: hotels, conference and events venues, restaurant and bar groups and attractions running large seasonal workforces on tight margins. Two universities drive a development pipeline of student accommodation and build to rent, and the surrounding county adds automotive and environmental engineering consultancy at Shoreham, the offshore wind operations base at Newhaven serving the array off the Sussex coast, and the aviation and logistics cluster around Gatwick. The common thread is scale-up. Most of these businesses are appointing leaders into roles that did not previously exist.