OUR HISTORY

The SJB Group and Integral Search have joined forces to create a next-generation executive search and leadership advisory firm — one built for industries in motion and organisations competing for transformational talent.

We combine decades of heritage with a fresh, research-driven approach to identifying and securing senior leaders who can navigate complexity, drive innovation, and deliver meaningful impact. Our merger brings together SJB’s long-standing reputation in technology, digital infrastructure, outsourcing, and consulting with Integral’s deep roots in global financial services — forming a single platform with unmatched insight into the leadership demands of today’s interconnected markets.

Where specialist expertise meets modern search intelligence.

Our consultants are genuine market experts — practitioners who have led teams, built businesses, and navigated the pressures our clients face. Their sector fluency is reinforced by a sophisticated research engine that blends human insight with advanced data mapping, ensuring every search is informed by live intelligence and complete market visibility.

We don’t rely on legacy networks or assumptions. Every mandate begins with a fresh diagnostic, rigorous evidence-gathering, and a tailored search strategy built to surface not just the best-known leaders — but the right ones.

Designed for business-critical and transformative hiring.

We partner with clients on their most strategically important appointments: senior executives, specialist leadership roles, team build-outs, succession plans, and high-impact hires that shape performance and culture.

Our heritage includes delivering global searches, advising on new-market expansion, supporting organisational redesign, and building leadership benches for clients across financial services, alternatives, technology, outsourcing, digital infrastructure, and professional services.

We operate with the precision of a boutique but the scale, reach and research capability of a global firm — enabling us to move quickly without compromising depth or rigour.

Insight, intelligence, and global reach

Our research teams generate real-time market intelligence — from compensation analytics and competitor mapping to leadership pipelines and diversity talent insights. With a continuously refreshed database of senior executives across multiple sectors and geographies, we give clients visibility into markets before, during, and long after each search.

Our footprint spans the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and key Emerging Markets. Wherever strategic talent is needed, we can reach it.

A more agile, collaborative, and transparent way to do executive search.

Search is changing — expectations are higher, timelines are tighter, and the leadership landscape is evolving rapidly. Our model is built for this environment.

We listen deeply. We challenge assumptions. We adapt our methodology to each organisation’s culture and pace.

Above all, we partner — offering clarity, insight, and a commitment to outcomes, not just process.

A new kind of search firm for a new kind of leadership challenge.

The merger of The SJB Group and Integral Search brings together two firms that have always believed in doing things differently: specialist expertise, intelligent research, and a relentless focus on delivery.

Together, we exist to help organisations secure the leaders who drive innovation, navigate disruption, and shape the future.



SECTORS WE WORK

At the SJB Group we live and breathe our markets and sectors; Unlike recruitment generalists we ‘stick to the knitting’ and this relentless market focus combined with our proactive search methods really marks us out. It means our clients rely on us year in, year out to deliver the toughest hiring campaigns across their business lines and operating companies globally.

We serve the Technology, Financial, Engineering, Consulting, Defence Primes and Professional Services sectors, and within these we have comprehensive knowledge and proven track record in:

  • IT Outsourcers
  • Digital Strategy and Advisories
  • Financial Technology
  • Investment Services
  • Cloud Service providers
  • Accounting & Tax Services
  • Financial Consulting & Advisory Services
  • Management and Technology Consultancies
  • Banking
  • Insurance
  • Agile Application Developer and System Integrators
  • Offshore Pure Play IT services providers
  • Business Process Outsourcers
  • Platform and complex engineering service providers
  • Real Estate
  • Payment processing & Credit Services

With job functions including but not limited to:

  • C-Suite
  • Sales
  • Strategy
  • Delivery
  • Trading
  • Risk management
  • Advisory M&A
  • Finance
  • Audit
  • Compliance
  • Operations
  • HR
  • Legal
  • Tax


HOW WE WORK

In common with our clients SJB has a robust and highly governed methodology underpinning each and every scope of work that we undertake. It is based on a structured ‘top down’ approach and working closely with all stakeholders from the outset.

We will invest time at the start of the assignment to really understand all aspects of the job, the hiring context and organisation. We will capture and produce the formal specification and agree the brief to be given to candidates. Jointly we will plan process activity and the timeline, taking into account any sensitivities, constraints and preferences.

Rigorous selection

From our active network and active research, we identify potential candidates and start the selection process. Our qualification method is thorough, based on our unique industry insight and competency-based interview, always meeting face-to-face with candidates selected for shortlist. The shortlist is presented along with a comprehensive selection report and we will make recommendations prior to your interview process.

Communications and reporting

We treat our assignments as projects and monitor progress to plan as a matter of course. We will be in dialogue and keep you updated with regular situation reports. Our consultant dedicated to the task in hand will always be readily available to deal with any issues as they arise.

Candidate management and on-boarding

SJB prides itself on exemplary candidate management through the life of the senior hire process. Not limited to expedient feedback, query resolution and offer broking we will support the critical phase of on-boarding. This is an essential step applicable to any grade that is a key success factor in protecting the investment of senior hire.

Performance review

The last stage, performance review, lets you assess the value that we bring and discuss openly any comments, which is vital to an enduring relationship. We take your satisfaction very seriously and will act quickly in continually improving our service.



DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We believe that by harnessing diversity of thought and experience across our company, exceptional things happen. We continually strive for a highly diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued, listened to and able to discover their personal best.

We reflect this further in working with our clients to bring to the table diverse candidate pools, allowing them to strengthen their own workforces by aligning their ambitions with clear, actionable plans to hire more inclusively and keep the diverse talent they hire.