Affinity

Strategic search for business-critical technical and leadership roles.

We give our clients an edge over their competition by taking their talent hunting to the next level — placing the leaders who win complex business, with precision, not volume.

Strategic search success rate

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Services

Two ways to secure exceptional leaders.

Same calibre of talent. Two commercial models — built around what works best for your situation.

Executive search

40+ projects delivered

For business-critical roles where confidentiality, thoroughness, and a guaranteed outcome matter most. Fully retained, managed end-to-end by Ian personally.

Strategic search

100% success rate

The same rigour as executive search, applied to any business-critical role — quite often without the upfront fee and at no additional cost to a normal contingency engagement.

Markets & sectors

Where we work.

Four markets. One standard of talent. Active candidate networks spanning the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and France.

Aerospace

Commercial, programme and engineering leadership across established and emerging aerospace programmes.

Defence

Programme, capture and commercial leadership for primes and suppliers across electronic warfare, naval comms, and critical infrastructure.

leadership

Senior BD talent who build pipeline and translate technical capability into contracts — often from operational and military backgrounds.

Technical sales

Sales leaders with genuine technical credibility — RF, microwave, mmWave, electronic warfare — for high-value, complex products.

"It's precision strike instead of carpet bombing — that's the only way to describe what Affinity does."

— Former Air Force Colonel, Aerospace & Defence client

Why Affinity

Why clients choose to work with Us.

The person who takes the brief is the person who delivers it. No account managers, no handoffs.

Sector specialists, not generalists — deep fluency across defence, aerospace and technical sales
Access to passive talent — the senior leaders not actively applying for roles
Discreet by default — confidentiality is built into every engagement, not an afterthought
Outcomes over activity — guaranteed results, not CV volume

The Founder

Meet Ian Anderson

We give our clients an edge over their competition, by taking their talent hunting activity to the next level. We offer much more than specialist contingency recruitment agencies and provide our clients with not just the best available candidates, but the best candidates, period.

We have a 100% success rate with our Strategic Search offering.
This offers the same methodical process as executive search but applied to any business-critical role, quite often without the upfront fee and at no additional cost to normal contingency recruitment services.

This process is guaranteed to deliver high quality results providing you with a complete picture of the entire candidate market.

This is a unique offering that we are only able to offer because we know it works and can be certain of the results.

If you have job openings that you are finding particularly difficult to fill and need guaranteed results we’d love to discuss them with you. The more challenging the better!

Ian Anderson

Founder