Industries & Functions

Odgers Berndtson is organised in industry and functional practices. Our Industry Practices employ experienced professionals from specific markets areas who are deeply immersed in the target business community - often with a successful industry career behind them.

Our Functional Practice experts understand the nuances of successful senior appointments, and provide discrete access to industry leaders. The combination of both disciplines is key in delivering successful candidates for top jobs.

  • Business & Professional Services

    The continuing globalisation of this high-end, high-value sector demands exceptional leaders, who know how to differentiate services, embrace innovation and deliver value.

  • Consumer Products & Services

    Technological advances, globalisation and the Internet are reshaping the rules in today's consumer & retail services market, demanding exceptional talent at the top.

  • Education

    As educational institutions continue to fight for their position in a changing economic and social model, leadership talent becomes a critical factor in success.

  • Public Sector & Not for Profit
  • Financial Services

    Financial services firms require strong leaders, global visionaries and superbly qualified professionals to move them forward in the 21st Century.

  • Healthcare

    The growing focus on the healthcare sector from a population with spiraling expectations and often an aging profile, requires leaders who can manage opportunity and challenge in equal measure.

  • Life Sciences

    As life sciences continues to experience radical change in the competitive landscape; strong leadership talent is the differentiator.

  • Technology

    In technology, with apparently boundless application and insatiable markets, it is the human factor - leadership - that differentiates the stellar successes from the rest.

  • Information, Communication & Entertainment
  • Media & Entertainment

    A magnet for talented young people, the essential element in success in the media & entertainment business is securing senior executives who have the vision, energy and acumen to make the right decisions.

  • Industrial

    Globalization, mergers and acquisitions, vertical integrations and partnerships, all demand more of the people at the top.

  • Energy & Natural Resources

    Today's energy and utility corporations face intense market and competitive pressures: Strong leadership is the driving force that shapes the successful company.

  • Sports

    The business of sport is a rapidly changing landscape, fueled by a growing global demand from consumers and commercial partners. Professional, commercial leadership is now in premium demand.

  • Board and CEO

    As world-class organisations grapple with the global challenges of the 21st century, it is their leaders that define success.

  • Human Resources

    With increasingly fierce competition for leadership talent and a compelling focus on intellectual resources, the human resources field is experiencing a renaissance.

  • Corporate Communications

    Chief executives are recognising the importance of strengthening and protecting corporate reputation and the vital role played by corporate communications in doing this.

  • IT Leadership

    Today's Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) play a vital role in the creation of the firm's strategic plan and in articulating how technology can enable business strategies.

  • Financial Management

    As the role of the finance function in corporate decision-making becomes ever-increasingly important, so the demands on finance leaders are rising.

  • Procurement & Supply Chain

    Leading organisations are recognising the role procurement and supply chain management plays by globalising the function and creating board level representation.

  • Legal & Company Secretarial

    The law plays an increasing role in business life today; corporate and practicing lawyers at the height of their profession are hard to attract.

  • Private Equity & Venture Capital

    Private equity is arguably the most dynamic global business phenomenon of the last 10 years. Attracting talent - and supporting investment clients with talent - is key to success.

  • Arts & Heritage

    Arts & heritage executive search, covering the placement of key figures in the burgeoning international cultural field, is an area in which Odgers Berndtson excels.

  • Aviation

    The Aviation business is a very high-powered sector and the demands on its senior people are exceptional. Businesses need to get their executive structure absolutely right.

  • Betting & Gaming

    The changing shape of the industry continues to increase the levels of complexity, regulation and governance for organisations in the Betting and Gaming sector, bringing further challenges for senior executives and their boards as well as for betting and gaming recruitment.

  • Fundraising & Development

    Fundraising and development recruitment is becoming more and more competitive, as fundraising plays an increasingly significant role in all not-for-profit organisations.

  • Infrastructure

    UK infrastructure, underinvested for many years, in both the public and private sectors, is now heavily into catch-up mode. There are large numbers of new transportation schemes in planning and underway, particularly in rail, but also in road and aviation.

  • Manufacturing & Engineering

    The UK's manufacturing landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade due to globalisation in general and the rise of low-cost economies in particular.

  • Physical Sciences

    The recruitment of senior managers and Board members (both Executive and Non-executive) into companies utilising one or more of the Physical Sciences is the very essence of the work of Odgers Berndtson’s Physical Science Practice.

  • Property

    Profitable and efficient management of assets has become a greater priority for Public and Private sector organisations alike. The challenge of profit maximisation through effective investment and divestment strategies and the effective utilisation of assets to fulfill the needs of the staff and business are topics that have gained significant traction.

  • Regeneration & Economic Development

    Our Regeneration Practice is genuinely comprehensive in its approach, spanning the physical, economic, social and environmental dimensions of regeneration.

  • Retail

    Today’s competition for the highest calibre professionals combined with our extensive experience has driven the rapid growth of our Consumer Products and Services Practice.

  • Housing

    Housing recruitment is all about finding talented individuals who can lead in an ever changing and increasingly complex sector.