Careers
For operators of consequence.
The Group recruits exceptional individuals, at the Group level and, in time, across the businesses it owns, for whom institutional standards are not aspirational but axiomatic. It keeps a continuous file of the people it would wish to deploy as its acquisitions mature, and it writes back to every serious letter.
The right people. Always.
The Group runs a continuous search, not a recruitment campaign. It looks for senior operators who have run a profitable business through a bad year; investment and finance professionals who have underwritten, lent, or audited; technologists who have built systems that other businesses depend on; and emerging leaders in whom the Group’s principals recognise the standard they hold themselves to.
It offers work of consequence beside principals who have built, listed, and governed companies; a seat at transactions from the first conversation to the hundredth day; the discipline of a group that reports on fixed dates and says the downside before the upside; and, as the Group acquires, the opportunity to lead a business inside it. Remuneration is set on the Group’s incentive principle: return on tangible invested capital and cash earnings, never acquisitions completed.
How to write.
Write to the Office of the Principal with a page about yourself: what you have built or run, the figures you were accountable for, what went wrong and what you did about it, and what you would want to do inside the Group. Attach a curriculum vitae if you wish. Every letter is read by a principal; a reply follows within two working days, and a conversation follows the letters that warrant one.
Within the businesses the Group acquires
The people stay.
The Group buys businesses for their people as well as their earnings. Every employee is told in person, within forty-eight hours of completion, what has happened and what will not change; second-line management is confirmed with retention agreements within thirty days; and the Group’s own recruitment businesses exist to hire, not to cut. The undertakings the Group makes to the owners it buys from are set out for business owners, and its conduct towards the people in those businesses in the ESG and A.I. Ethics Charter.
Contact
Write with a page about yourself.
Every letter is read by a principal of the Group. A reply follows within two working days.