Key Findings & Highlights:

Founded in 1982 in Clifton, Bristol, U.K., Sanderson Recruitment (Sanderson) is an independent global recruitment company providing permanent and contract recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), project-based recruitment, executive search, managed solution provider services, and specialized government and defense talent solutions.

In the past five years, Sanderson has grown inorganically by acquiring several recruiting companies. In 2019, Sanderson acquired the U.K. recruitment division of Sopra Steria, rebranded as Intelligent Resource, and secured a substantial shareholding in international recruitment consultancy IKAS Global, providing a platform to access markets in the Asia Pacific region. In January 2021, the company expanded its international footprint by acquiring U.K. recruitment company Highams and three further trading divisions of Nakama Group plc - Nakama U.K., Nakama Hong Kong, and Nakama Singapore. The company expands its capabilities and global footprint using organic and inorganic strategies.

Sanderson maintains twelve offices globally, designing solutions supporting its clients’ business plans in the U.K., Australia, Ireland, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong, and comprising:

• Recruitment Services, comprising contract and permanent recruitment, multi-sector vertical market expertise, and global recruitment delivery
• Recruitment Process Outsourcing, including Enterprise, Flexible, and Talent Partnering models
• Managed Service Programs (MSP), managing the entire contingent worker lifecycle from resource planning and approvals through the end-to-end recruitment process to onboarding, payroll, extension management, and offboarding
• Executive Search, providing executive search and selection, research and talent pooling, and succession planning
• Projects’ solutions from Sanderson include identifying and validating specialized and flexible resources supporting interim team assignments using a risk/gain sharing contracting model
• Specialist Government & Defense Sector, sourcing and placing high-caliber professional talent to work within the U.K. Government and Defence sector
• Talent Insights, analytical projects ranging from salary benchmarking for a single vacancy to multi-region competitor analysis and talent pool insights supporting global location strategies.

Sanderson focuses on its data-driven approach and the specialized expertise of its team in nurturing its long-standing client engagements.

Sanderson structures its recruiting services into three delivery models:

• Enterprise RPO - Sanderson provides a full-service solution, from pipelining, sourcing, and screening to offering administration and onboarding
• Flexible RPO - an agile approach to addressing short-term spikes in hiring demand or tackling specific recruitment challenges, often aligned to a particular location, division, or skill set. In this hybrid service, Sanderson works as an extension of the client’s TA team to support a specific project or as part of a longer-term partnership
• Talent Partnering - a resource augmentation solution in which Sanderson deploys a dedicated team working in partnership with the client’s TA team. Talent Partnering is an effective solution when addressing challenging locations or ongoing demand for niche or specialty skills.