Your new HR role needs judgment, not a stack of CVs.

Retained search gives one firm responsibility for the market work, candidate approach, and advisory process. Contingent recruitment only charges on placement and can encourage volume. MVRK uses retained search when the role needs judgement, discretion, and a clear view of the market.

Confidential search is a discrete recruitment process where either the hiring company's identity, the role, or both are initially concealed from candidates. It is used when replacing an incumbent who doesn't know they're being replaced, during sensitive M&A activity, or for strategic hires that shouldn't be publicized. A trusted search firm acts as intermediary.

We work on roles from mid-management to the level just below CPO. Senior HR Business Partners, Heads of Talent Acquisition, Heads of L&D, Comp & Ben leads, HR Directors for a new region or business unit. These are roles where the person sits in on a strategy discussion with the leadership team and then walks out and does whatever unglamorous thing needs doing next, because the function is theirs to build. Roles that grow with the business. We don't do CPO or CHRO searches.

MVRK only does HR. No finance searches, no tech hires. Ten years in this function means we know the market and we know the candidates. We take a small number of searches at a time because the work is better when we do.

We're not industry-specific. Our clients have included logistics companies, manufacturers, tech firms, financial services, and luxury retail. The common thread is that they need someone who can do the job as it exists today, but who'll still be the right person when the role looks completely different in two or three years.

MVRK starts by pressure-testing the brief: what the role needs now, what it becomes next, and what the market will actually support. From there, we map the relevant candidate pool, approach quietly, and present people with a written rationale instead of a stack of CVs.

MVRK operates across Europe with primary coverage in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Italy. Extended coverage includes the Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland), Benelux, DACH region, and Middle East (UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia). We work with companies headquartered in or expanding into these markets.