Leadership & Executive Recruitment

For the people shaping what comes next.

Specialist search for Managers, Heads of Function, Directors, General Managers and C-suite leaders across industrial and technical sectors.

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THE NEXT CHAIR

The Next Chair is JL Group’s specialist Leadership & Executive Recruitment division, focused on manager-level through to C-suite appointments.

We work with businesses where the right leadership appointment can directly influence growth, performance and what happens next.

Our approach combines sector knowledge, structured search and assessment, technology and experienced human judgement — going beyond CV matching to understand the business, the role and the person needed to succeed in it.

The right person changes more than a role.

Leadership at every critical level

We specialise in appointments where experience, judgement and leadership capability matter.

  • Experienced professionals stepping into critical management roles.

  • Leaders responsible for building and driving key business functions.

  • Senior leaders shaping strategy, performance and organisational direction.

  • Business leaders accountable for operations, teams and commercial performance.

  • Executive appointments with organisation-wide responsibility and impact.

  • Your specialist recruitment partner — working alongside your business to identify, assess and secure the leadership talent you need for what comes next.

AI + Human Intelligence

Recruitment can lose enormous amounts of time to searching, filtering, comparing profiles and repetitive administration.

We are building technology into The Next Chair to make those parts of the process faster, broader and more structured — giving our team more time to focus on what actually requires human judgement.

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FASTER SHORTLISTING

SMARTER SEARCH

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TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED. HUMAN-LED.

MORE TIME FOR PEOPLE

STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT

Your next critical hire starts here.

Whether you're planning a leadership appointment, strengthening a key function or simply want to understand how The Next Chair can support your next search, register your interest and our team will be in touch.

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