Recruitment for consultancies

When a bid depends on one missing CV,
you don't need a job advert.

We have spent over 25 years working with consultancies, working inside them, and building their recruitment functions from scratch. We know how consultancy sales cycles run, and we align how we deliver to how you sell.

Tell us the gap How we work to your bid cycle

Why consultancies work with us

25+ years

Working with, for and inside consultancies — including building their internal recruitment functions.

2 profiles in 1 day

Two perfectly matching profiles inside one business day for a global financial services consultancy — the bid was saved.

Bid-cycle aligned

Pre-qualification, bid, award, mobilisation. We work to your stage, not to a generic 4-week process.

We speak consultancy

A consultancy hire is never just a hire. It sits inside a pursuit, a named-CV requirement, a utilisation target or a client-facing commitment. That is why generic agencies miss: they optimise for the vacancy, not for the deal behind it.

What we understand without being told

  • Named CVs and role-holder requirements in a tender, and the credibility bar they have to clear.
  • Bench, utilisation and the cost of hiring three weeks too early — or one week too late.
  • Rate cards, day rates, margin, and where a candidate's expectation breaks your economics.
  • Client-site, security-cleared and regulated environments, and the vetting they carry.
  • Sub-contract, contract and permanent, and when each is the right answer for the deal.

How that changes delivery

  • We map profiles during the pursuit, so a shortlist exists the day the award lands.
  • Anonymised profiles when a bid needs evidence of capability before you can name people.
  • Candidates briefed on the client, the engagement and the travel — not just the salary.
  • We hold a warm bench of pre-qualified people for the profiles you repeatedly need.
  • Where the hire is overseas, we can employ and pay them compliantly in 120+ countries.

Aligned to your sales cycle

1 · Pre-qualification

We map the market for the profiles the opportunity will need, so you know the talent exists and what it costs before you commit.

2 · Bid

Profiles, availability and rates in the format your bid team needs — including named or anonymised CVs against tender requirements.

3 · Award

Shortlist activated immediately. Offers, notice periods and start dates managed against your mobilisation date, not ours.

4 · Delivery & growth

Replacements for drop-outs, scale-up hires as the engagement expands, and cover when the programme extends.

What we are usually called in for

Emergency bid bail-outs

The bid is live, a required profile is missing, and the submission date is not moving. This is our specialism.

Drop-outs and no-shows

Someone resigned, declined or failed vetting after the client was promised a start date. We replace them fast.

Hard-to-fill and long-open roles

Roles that have already been out to two other agencies for months. We are the third call that closes it.

Short-notice project cover

Found and hired at extreme short notice so a live project could continue without a gap.

Practice and team build-outs

Several hires to one deadline, without quality dropping on the third or fourth one.

Internal recruitment functions

We have built consultancies' own hiring functions — process, sourcing model, and the first hires into it.

Where it has mattered

Two matching profiles in one business day — bid saved

A global financial services consultancy was short the people a live bid required. We delivered two perfectly matching profiles within one business day — under 24 hours. The bid went in complete.

A role that had been open far too long

A candidate dropped out and the vacancy stayed open well past the point of comfort. We took it on and filled it within two business days.

Hired at extreme short notice

People found, vetted and hired on notice most agencies would refuse — so the project kept moving instead of pausing.

How we work with you

  • Same working day response. Send us the gap and you hear back that day with how we would fill it, what it costs, and when you see people.
  • One point of contact. Sourcing, offers, contracts, payroll and compliance through one partner.
  • Permanent, contract or employed by us. If the person needs to sit outside your entity, we can employ and pay them.

Disciplines we cover

Technology and engineering, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure, cyber and risk, change and transformation, programme and project delivery, finance, legal, commercial and bid roles, and consulting leadership.

If the profile is client-facing, security-cleared or billable from week one, we have recruited it before.

Bid deadline moving faster than your hiring process?

Tell us the profile you are missing and the date it has to be in by. We will come back the same working day with how we fill it.

Talk to us info@peopleflow.ai