Executive search
Desk heads and trading leadership across the ten European power markets.
Full-market mapping, calibrated shortlists and hands-on offer management on every senior mandate.
Head of Trading, Head of Optimisation and desk-lead appointments, searched directly across every market we hold a register for. Discreet by default: the people worth hiring at this level are not looking, and their current employer should not learn that they took a call.
Dedicated market research, a calibrated shortlist drawn from the full European pool, interview and offer management, plus one operator accountable for the hire from brief to signed contract.
Off-market approach
Calibrated longlist to shortlist
Stakeholder and offer management
We scope the desk and mandate, map the pool country by country, prioritise those in a genuine move-window, then manage outreach, interviews and closing against an agreed timeline.
Scope the seat honestly
What the desk actually needs is often not what the job title says. The first conversation is about the book, the risk mandate and who this person has to win over internally.
Map the leadership pool
Every desk lead in scope across the ten markets, including the ones who moved recently and are therefore not in play.
Approach quietly
No adverts, no forwarded CVs, nothing that identifies the client until both sides want the conversation.
Manage both sides to close
Senior moves fail on counter-offers and notice periods. Both are handled in the open from the first call.
Senior Intraday, Day-Ahead, Balancing, Cross-Border, Algo and Asset-Backed Traders, plus lead quants and optimisers, where speed, discretion and transferability across GB and continental markets all matter.
Desk builds and rebuilds
A first senior hire in a new market
Confidential succession
Client questions on retained search
Do you advertise these roles?
No. At this level advertising tells the market a desk is unstable and reaches the small fraction of people who are actively looking.
Can you approach a direct competitor?
That is agreed at the outset and written into the scope. Off-limits lists are respected and stated back to you before the search starts.
What if the right person sits in a different segment?
Often they do. A utility optimisation lead and a prop desk head do the same job under different titles, and the register holds both.
“A leadership hire drawn from the whole market and approached in a way that does not put the candidate at risk.”
Looking to fill the team below the leader?
Retained search
Market intelligence
Senior power trading, quant and optimisation hires across European markets.