A talent advisory and recruitment company specialising in supporting clients with exceptional service

Your Executive Search partner for accelerating growth

Crescent Search is a niche executive search firm specialising in supporting ambitious businesses with their strategy, transformation, and commercial excellence talent requirements. Our extensive market insight enables us to advise clients on how to successfully identify and attract the right skills to allow their teams to flourish.

Our partners have worked with over 100 clients across 10 countries, successfully completing over 300 assignments. We work with private equity and venture capital funds, their portfolio companies, and listed businesses across all major industry sectors.

We have a diverse global network of current and ex-strategy and management consultants, and take pride in providing our clients with their future leadership.

We support our clients with searches from Senior Associate to Managing Director level, with our main area of expertise at basic salary levels between £80,000 and £150,000. Our clients include Chief Executive, Operating, Strategy, Commercial, Financial, and Human Resources Officers as well as Managing Directors, Investment Directors, Directors and team leaders within those disciplines.

We combine deep functional knowledge with rigorous, data-led evaluation techniques to give our clients a competitive edge in their recruitment practices. Our network includes over 5000 regularly updated current and ex-consulting professionals who are passionate about solving problems and creating long-term value.

Our proven track record

Here are some examples of the wide range of recruitment assignments we have completed. Feel feel to view our case studies for more details on our executive search process and our proven track record.

Strategy
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Strategy Director
  • Head of Corporate Strategy
  • Head of Strategy & Planning
  • Senior Strategy Manager
  • Head of Strategic Projects
  • Strategy Manager
Commercial
  • Head of Commercial Excellence
  • Head of Commercial Strategy
  • Commercial Director
  • Head of Pricing
  • Customer Analytics Manager
  • Commercial Manager
  • Strategic Sales Manager
Transformation
  • Transformation Director
  • VP Portfolio Operations
  • Head of Strategic Transformation
  • Programme Director
  • Transformation Manager
  • Programme Manager
  • Senior Project Manager

Our Values

Transparent Approach

Market Specialisation

Diverse Thinking

Long-Term Relationships

Chris Cleland

The Crescent Search Story

Crescent Search was founded in 2020 by Chris Cleland. Chris has over ten years of executive search and talent advisory experience, working with clients in the UK, Europe, Asia, and the USA. He founded Crescent Search out of a passion for providing data-led, transparent, and diligent executive search services to his current and future clients.

His areas of expertise include mid-to-senior level strategy, transformation, and commercial excellence positions for a broad range of clients. He partners with current and ex-strategy consultants as both clients and candidates, providing expertise on both recruitment and career strategies.

At Crescent Search, Chris is supported by several research associates to provide clients with the most up-to-date market data. He is passionate about delivering outstanding service, building long-term relationships, and seeing his clients and candidates succeed.

He founded Crescent Search following eight years at Investigo, leaving the firm as a Partner in their Executive Search business. After studying commerce at University College Dublin, he began his recruitment career in Dublin post the global financial crisis. He is a regular golfer, fitness enthusiast, and general fun-loving Irish man!

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