By Referral & Private Inquiry
Westmere Talent Partners represents senior leaders — not employers. We approach the organisations you want, position your candidacy before a role is ever posted, and hold your name in confidence until the conversation is worth having.
The Positioning
Above a certain level, the best mandates are never advertised. They are shaped in private conversations, filled through trusted introductions, and decided long before a posting exists. Applying puts you at the end of that process. Representation puts you at the start of it.
You compete against hundreds, on someone else's timeline, with your name in an applicant system.
Progress depends on who happens to be listening, and every conversation costs you privacy.
A partner makes the approach, frames the value, and protects your position until terms are agreed.
Representation
We build a target list of organisations and decision-makers, then make the approach ourselves — directly to principals, never through portals. Your candidacy arrives as a recommendation, not an application.
Your record is rewritten as a commercial argument: what you own, what you changed, what it was worth. Résumé, narrative and board-facing materials, all built for a specific audience.
We stay at the table through offer and terms. Compensation, equity, scope, reporting line and exit protection are argued by a representative — so the relationship with your future employer starts clean.
For leaders still in seat. Every approach is made without attribution, references are managed, and nothing surfaces publicly until you decide it should.
The Process
A confidential call to understand your position, constraints and ambition. No materials required, no obligation on either side.
We agree the brief, then map the organisations, principals and mandates worth your time — including those not yet in the market.
Your dossier, narrative and proof points are built and rehearsed before a single approach is made.
We open the doors on your behalf, manage the correspondence, and bring you in only when the conversation is real.
We negotiate compensation and scope, then support the first ninety days so the mandate holds.
Fees
Fees are tailored to your seniority, timeline, and the level of execution you need. We agree the scope and fee in writing before any work begins, so there are no surprises at offer or invoice.
Companies
For organisations hiring senior, specialised or hard-to-reach talent. We run a retained search on your behalf — sourcing, screening and presenting candidates who are not actively applying.
Custom quote after intake
Candidates
For senior leaders who want representation in the market. We act as your agent — applying, outreach, positioning and negotiation — while you stay out of the public job market.
Custom quote after intake
Built as a commercial argument, not a biography.
Direct, personalised outreach to the people who decide.
Profile aligned with the mandate you want next.
Targeted applications sent at the right cadence.
Messaging, proof points and negotiation stance rehearsed.
Terms, compensation, scope and exit protection argued by your representative.
We do not take a cut of your offer or invoice a percentage of compensation.
The fee reflects scope and seniority, not a pre-set package you do not need.
Terms are clear, documented, and without multi-year obligations.
If the scope we agreed is not being delivered as promised, you can cancel within the first 30 days for a full refund. We put this in writing because the relationship only works if you trust it.
Every search is different: geography, seniority, function and urgency all change the work involved. Publishing a fixed price would either overcharge straightforward mandates or under-resource complex ones. After a short intake call we send a clear, written proposal with no hidden line items.
Request a private intake call. We will walk through your situation, outline the right fee structure, and send a written proposal before any commitment.
Request an intake callWho We Serve
Our clients are typically directors, vice presidents, C-suite executives and non-executive directors — most of them currently employed, all of them selective. We take on a limited number of mandates at a time, because representation this close does not scale.
You cannot be seen looking. Every approach we make is unattributed until you authorise otherwise.
The next move is sideways inside your organisation and upward outside it. We find the outside.
A deliberate, private search that protects your narrative instead of exposing a gap.
Your record needs translating for a new audience before it needs presenting to one.
About
For more than a decade, the work behind Westmere has been the quiet, persistent work of search: finding the right people, reading the market, and opening doors that do not open from the outside.
Westmere Talent Partners was built for senior leaders who need representation without exposure. We exist to handle the targeted applications, the human outreach, and the disciplined follow-up that most people do not have time to do well — and that most services do not do at all.
There is no junior pool working from a script, no offshore queue, and no AI auto-apply engine. Every search is run by the Founder & Principal Agent, from the first email to the signed offer.
The approach is deliberately small. A limited number of active clients means every dossier, every outreach message, and every negotiation is handled by the person who shaped the strategy. That is the point: when your name is on the line, the work should not be delegated into anonymity.
If you are a senior leader planning a confidential move — or a company looking for a candidate who is not on the market — send a private inquiry. We reply personally within two business days.
Request a private inquiryPerspectives
A selection of the kind of feedback Westmere aims to earn. These statements are representative sample testimonials, pending verified client permissions, and are not presented as verified reviews.
“The process felt like a strategy conversation, not a recruitment pitch.”
“For the first time, I had someone representing my interests at the table.”
“Discretion was not an afterthought. It was the entire operating model.”
“They understood the nuance of my sector without me having to explain it.”
“I never once had to chase for an update.”
“The positioning work changed how I talk about my own career.”
If these perspectives resonate with your situation, the next step is a private conversation. We reply within two business days.
Request a private inquiryPrivate Inquiry
Tell us where you stand and what you are trying to reach. We reply personally within two business days, and nothing you share leaves Westmere.
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