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Executive Search.

Build the leadership team your strategy demands.

Sewell Wallis runs executive search assignments for finance, HR, and operational leadership across Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Manchester. We place finance directors, HR directors, COOs, heads of function, and C-suite leaders into PE-backed scale-ups, owner-managed businesses, FTSE-listed corporates, and not-for-profit organisations. Whether you need a permanent strategic hire or interim leadership through a transformation phase, our regional network gives you direct access to passive senior talent.

Our consultants have spent 15+ years building relationships with Yorkshire's senior finance and operational community. Working with Sewell Wallis gives you a live read on the region's strongest leadership talent and where they're looking next.

Choose Us For Your Next Executive Search.

Senior hires fail commercially when culture fit and values alignment are treated as afterthoughts. We immerse in your business stage, ownership structure, and strategic plan before approaching candidates. We screen for sector experience, board-level capability, and the specific leadership style your business needs at this point in its growth, whether that's turnaround, scale-up, or stabilisation. We brief you on candidate motivations, counter-offer probability, and realistic offer structures including LTIPs, equity participation, and notice-period buy-outs. Our guide to building resilience into your business explores the leadership traits we screen for, and our fractional finance director breakdown covers the alternative leadership models worth considering.

For city-specific senior hires, we run targeted search campaigns including roles such as finance directors in Leeds and interim finance directors for businesses facing change or leadership gaps.

For employers across Yorkshire and the North, Sewell Wallis is the trusted partner in regional executive search. Brief us on your role and we'll get to work.

Talk to us about your next executive hire
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Procurement Director

Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Negotiable
Sewell Wallis is working with a high growth business based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, who are looking to recruit a Procurement Director to join their senior leadership team. Reporting to the MD this is crucial role for this leading manufacturer & will be responsible for leading the strategic sourcing, capital procurement, and supplier management functions. You will oversee the procurement strategy for large-scale programs, advanced manufacturing facilities & long-term supplier relationships

Chief Commercial Officer

Alfreton, Derbyshire
£75000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Sewell Wallis is exclusively partnering with a manufacturing business based in Alfreton with a long-standing heritage in quality, who are looking for a Chief Commercial Officer. Operating as a vertically integrated, product-led business, they are entering a critical phase of commercial transformation and growth.

Chief Operating Officer

Alfreton, Derbyshire
£75000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Sewell Wallis is exclusively partnering with a manufacturing business based in Alfreton with a long-standing heritage in quality, who are looking for a Chief Operations Officer. Operating as a vertically integrated business with manufacturing at the heart of their identity, operational excellence is critical to their long-term success.