securing top talent for your business
Executive search for engineering and technology businesses
We help companies secure leaders who can strengthen delivery, scale technical capability, and lead through complexity — across engineering, manufacturing, product, and technology environments.
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Roles filled
Roles include:
Engineering Director, CTO, Head of Sales, Operations Director, VP of Hardware, VP of Sales, VP of Engineering, Sales Director, and more.
7K+
Executive candidates
Octagon Group have built up a huge database of over 60,000 Engineering & Manufacturing candidates.
Over 7,000 are at the Executive level.
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Global locations
We don’t just recruit executive roles in the UK. We supply executive talent globally.
Success in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Singapore
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Meet Our Executive Team
Meet Steve and Bhav. Our executive search specialists at Octagon Group.
What people say about our Executive Search service:
“Octagon understood that this wasn’t just about filling a leadership vacancy, it was about finding someone who could scale the business, strengthen the engineering function, and align with the culture we’d built. Their communication, market knowledge, and ability to manage the process professionally made a huge difference. We hired a CTO who has already had a measurable impact across the organisation.”
— CEO of advanced engineering business (250+ employees)
Steve Bernat
Director
Bhav Patel
Director
The
Octagon Executive Approach
Site Visit and understand needs
Requirements brief
Build the search strategy.
Market mapping & research
Premium Branded Advertising
Build the search strategy
Start Executive Outreach
Video interviews
Face to Face interviews
Psychometric Evaluation
Update call
Shortlist Presentation
Facilitate Interviews
Feedback
Review
Negotiation
Offer Management
Counter-offer Management
Full Reference Checks
Security checks (if required)
Notice period management
Onboarding
Placement Follow-Up
Our Process
Sourcing
LinkedIn Recruiter – Primary search tool.
Database
Octagon Group have over 7,000 executive candidates on our database.
Advertising
LinkedIn Premium Job Post
Collaboration
Promoting your brand and product through our network
01 | Outreach
Industry contacts
Global network
Access to competitors
02 | Increased Recognition
Awareness in the market = improved candidate attraction.
Brand equity = Trust
03 | Be ‘Top of Mind’
How this works
We don’t shout and scream. We target and tickle using proven strategies and platforms like LinkedIn, News and Recognition and reaching out to our network.
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Conclusion and key takeaways
Job board and premium advertising
Candidate sourcing tools
LinkedIn Recruiter projects and insights
Creation of job adverts and specifications
Candidate qualifying and interviewing
Hiring manager support
Competitor analysis reports
Interview coaching
Psychometric assessments
Onboarding