executive head hunter

About us

Watson Helsby is an established UK based headhunting firm providing companies with high level executive search advice and executional expertise across the key reputation management, public relations, stakeholder engagement and communications disciplines. 

Recognised as experts within our field, we work for clients of all sizes and on both sides of the fence – from large UK corporations, multi-nationals and public sector bodies through to the specialist communications and PR consultancies that support them.

The directors of the firm have all worked directly in communications and external affairs. This, combined with many years of recruitment experience, means that our understanding of the activities and capabilities required of the communications disciplines, the trends and issues impacting them, the way they are organised and the people operating within them is second to none.  We are, in short, exceptionally well qualified to find the very best talent in the public relations and public affairs marketplace.

Although based in London, our intelligence gathering, relationships and network are global and we undertake international headhunting (or executive search whichever is better for SEO) assignments. 

 

For a company like Virgin Atlantic, that has long put PR and communications at the very heart of its strategy, the appointment of a new Director of Communications was a critical hire. I decided to use a specialist search firm and the calibre of the shortlisted candidates that Watson Helsby identified was very impressive
CEO, Virgin Atlantic