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Oryx Executive Search

Metals and Minerals Executive Search

Metals executive search for producers, processors, stockholders and minerals businesses. Clients include Amari Metals and Johnson Matthey.

Metals and Minerals Executive Search Recruiters

Oryx provides metals executive search across primary production and smelting, rolling and processing, stockholding and distribution, recycling and secondary metals, precious metals and speciality minerals. Our clients include Amari Metals, Johnson Matthey and Hill & Smith, businesses operating at different points of that chain. Leadership roles in metals and minerals are shaped by commodity price exposure, energy intensity, long-lived capital assets and, increasingly, decarbonisation and recycled content commitments. Candidates who have managed a business through a downcycle, run an energy-intensive site under carbon costs or rebuilt margin across a distribution network are a small group, and our in-house research team maps them by name rather than working from applications. Coverage extends across steel, aluminium and copper, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, foundries and forging, surface treatment and galvanising, industrial minerals and mining services, and the trading and stockholding operations that connect them.

We fill a variety of roles across the metals search sector

  • Managing Director
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Operations Director
  • Plant Director
  • Engineering Director
  • Commercial Director
  • Technical Services Director
  • Supply Chain and Logistics Director
  • Sales and Marketing Director
  • HSEQ Director
  • Projects Director

Selected assignments

Amari Metals

Amari Metals is the UK’s largest multi-metals stockholder and supplier. It also has a fast-growing engineering and manufacturing group of businesses. Over the last few years the business has experienced dramatic growth, organically and through acquisitions, and we have supported the company with a series of high profile and successful search assignments. Roles include CFO, Divisional Business Director, GM Supply Chain, S&OP Manager, Head of Finance, Head of IT, and a Learning and Development Manager.

BODYCOTE

Bodycote is the world's largest provider of heat treatment and specialist metallurgical services, focusing on heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), and surface technology. They alter and improve the properties of metals and alloys to make manufactured components stronger and last longer. Oryx has handled a range of senior group commercial roles.