Built Around Your Growing Business
We work across distinct business types, including rapidly developing startups and innovative transformation teams.
Startups & Scale-Ups
McGregor Boyall recruits for startups and scale-ups, helping fast-growth businesses hire the people they need as they build teams, functions, and leadership capability.
Transformation & Project Teams
McGregor Boyall supports businesses through change and transformation, helping them hire the contract, interim, leadership, and embedded recruitment talent needed to deliver programmes on time and with confidence.
Specialist Coverage of Global Organisations & Regulated Sectors
We work with enterprise organisations and regulated industries operating at scale, supporting businesses with complex structures, high-volume hiring demands and specialist talent requirements.
Enterprises & Global Firms
We support enterprise and global firms with complex hiring needs, helping large organisations recruit across locations, functions, and seniority levels while working within established governance, procurement, and approval processes.
Regulated Industries
We support regulated businesses with specialist recruitment across compliance, governance, risk, and regulatory functions, drawing on decades of experience in sectors where every hire needs to meet strict standards.
Recruitment Services for Every Business Type
Across every business type we work with, the services we deliver stay consistent, even if the way we apply them varies considerably.
Permanent Recruitment
We build core teams and critical functions for the long term. Permanent hiring is where cultural fit and long-term trajectory matter as much as immediate capability.
Contract Recruitment
Fast access to specialists when you need them, for exactly as long as the work demands. Most commonly used across transformation programmes, where pace matters and permanent headcount isn't the answer.
Contingent Search
We offer contingent recruitment for businesses that need flexible support with live roles, evolving requirements, or specialist vacancies across their teams.
Embedded Recruitment
For businesses in sustained periods of growth, we place specialist recruiters inside your organisation, operating as an extension of your talent acquisition function rather than as an external supplier responding to requisitions.
Retained Search
We offer retained search for critical, senior, or hard-to-fill appointments that need a dedicated process, structured market mapping, and focused delivery.
Consultancy
For organisations looking to improve not just who they hire, but how they hire, process design, TA operating models, and advisory support that goes beyond individual search assignments.
Executive Search
For the appointments that define what a business becomes, we use a structured search approach: thorough market mapping, rigorous validation, and the reach to find people who aren't looking.
Our Specialisms
We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible advice, market intelligence, recruitment solutions and service across the following specialisms.
Business Support & Secretarial
Strong executive teams rely on strong operational support.
From Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants to Office Managers and Business Support Leads, we identify professionals who bring structure, discretion and pace to senior environments. These roles often sit close to decision-makers, so trust, judgement and adaptability matter just as much as experience.
Change & Transformation
Transformation requires leaders who can turn strategy into delivery.
We support organisations undergoing restructuring, digital change, post-merger integration or large-scale operational improvement. This includes Transformation Directors, Change Leads and Programme Sponsors who can engage stakeholders, manage risk and drive adoption.
Compliance, Governance & Legal
When oversight matters, leadership quality matters more.
We recruit senior professionals across compliance, governance and legal functions who understand regulation, internal controls and corporate responsibility. From General Counsel to Heads of Compliance and Company Secretaries, we focus on leaders who can protect the organisation while enabling growth.
Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure
Modern businesses depend on resilient, scalable platforms.
We support hiring across cloud architecture, infrastructure leadership and DevOps strategy. That includes CTOs, Heads of Infrastructure, Cloud Directors and Platform Engineering Leads who can balance performance, cost and security.
Data & Analytics
Data is only valuable if it shapes decisions.
We recruit Chief Data Officers, Heads of Analytics, BI Directors and senior data leaders who can build data capability across the organisation. This includes governance, architecture and insight delivery.
Development & Testing
Product and engineering leadership defines delivery standards.
From Engineering Directors to Heads of QA and Software Development Managers, we identify leaders who can build high-performing teams, improve release cycles and raise technical quality.
Digital Marketing, Communications & Sales
Revenue growth depends on aligned commercial leadership.
We support executive hiring across marketing, brand, communications and sales. This includes CMOs, Commercial Directors and Growth Leaders who can translate market insight into revenue performance.
Finance, Audit & Accounting
Financial leadership shapes stability and strategy.
We recruit CFOs, Finance Directors and Heads of Audit who bring oversight, forecasting capability and commercial insight. Whether preparing for investment, scaling operations or strengthening controls, the right finance executive changes decision-making at every level.
HR & Talent Management
People strategy drives business performance.
We identify Chief People Officers, HR Directors and Talent Leaders who can shape workforce planning, culture and leadership development. This includes organisations navigating growth, restructuring or cultural change.
Information & Cyber Security
Security is a board-level issue.
We support hiring for CISOs, Heads of Information Security and Cyber Risk Leaders who can manage threat landscapes, regulatory requirements and internal resilience.
Project & Programme Management
Delivery discipline protects investment.
We recruit Programme Directors, PMO Leaders and Portfolio Managers who can oversee complex initiatives and ensure accountability across timelines, budgets and stakeholders.
Risk Management & Quantitative Analytics
In volatile markets, risk leadership becomes strategic.
We support hiring across enterprise risk, market risk, credit risk and quantitative analytics functions. From Chief Risk Officers to Quant Leads, we focus on leaders who combine analytical depth with commercial judgement.
Procurement & Supply Chain
Supply chain leadership impacts cost, resilience and reputation.
We recruit Heads of Procurement, Supply Chain Directors and Operations Leaders who can manage global suppliers, mitigate disruption and optimise performance.
Our Latest Insights
Not Sure Where Your Business Fits?
Many of the businesses we work with don't fit neatly into one box. A regulated firm might also be going through a major transformation. A scale-up might be operating in a heavily compliance-governed environment. An enterprise might be spinning up an internal startup.
If you're not sure which page is most relevant, or if your situation spans more than one, the simplest route is a conversation. We're a business support recruitment agency built around the reality of how organisations actually operate, not how a taxonomy says they should.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work with businesses outside these four categories?
The four business types on this site cover the majority of organisations we work with. They're defined by how a business hires, not by what it does, so most organisations will recognise their challenges in at least one of these areas. If you're unsure, get in touch, and we'll quickly work out the right approach for your situation.
Can you support a business that spans more than one category?
Yes, and it's common. A financial services firm undergoing a large-scale transformation, for example, draws on our regulated industries knowledge, our change and transformation practice, and potentially our enterprise staffing model simultaneously. We coordinate across those capabilities without creating complexity on your side.
How long has McGregor Boyall been operating?
Since 1987. That longevity reflects the quality of the relationships we maintain with both clients and candidates across the sectors and business types we serve. It also means we've supported businesses through multiple market cycles, growth phases, downturns, regulatory upheaval, and structural transformation.
What's the fastest way to get started?
A short conversation. Whether you have a live brief, a role that's still being defined, or simply a challenge you're trying to work out how to solve, talking to one of our consultants is the fastest way to understand whether and how we can help.