How We Operate

Providing executive and management recruitment services for the card payments, e-payments and m-payments industry.

Headcount brings together leading payments industry clients with the very best industry-specific talent.

Focusing solely on executive and management recruitment services for the payments industry worldwide, Headcount provides a full search and selection, contingency and contract recruitment service offering. Our reputation within the industry lies in sourcing exceptional candidates with the specific industry skills and experience to meet each client's needs. We achieve this through our in-depth knowledge of the payments sector combined with a thorough understanding of our clients' businesses, culture and requirements and of our candidates’ abilities and aspirations.

In addition, over the past decade we have built up and assiduously maintain a huge network of high profile payments industry professionals and contacts that allows us to find the right people – and to find them fast. As well as sourcing candidates directly from this network database, it means that if we don't know the right person we will almost certainly know someone in the industry who does.

Some of the benefits of using us for your executive recruitment & management recruitment

• Our payments industry candidates are among the best in the field.
• Within the payments sector we cover all business functions, including sales and marketing, product development, product strategy, project management, programme management and consultancy.
• We choose to work with a select number of clients, regarded as the top tier organisations in their sector.
• We will assess your business and understand your executive recruitment & management recruitment needs. This will enable us to align your strategic staffing requirements with your business strategy.
• The highly specialised nature of the payments industry means traditional recruitment methods such as advertising are too generalist and ineffective. Instead we rely on our sector intelligence, networking channels, career tracking systems and headhunting expertise to introduce you to the best talent available.
• Our networking database numbers over 5,000 payments industry professionals – with each of whom we maintain regular communication. (Even if they're not currently seeking their next career move, they may know someone is.)
• We have first class in-house research facilities and talented consultants skilled at sourcing outstanding candidates worldwide.
• The two founders have over 24 years' payments industry experience between them.
• We screen our candidates effectively and our CV to offer ratio is low – minimising the time you spend on executive recruitment & management recruitment.
• We enjoy high retention rates.
• As an independent company, we have the flexibility to offer bespoke management recruitment and executive recruitment services tailored to your organisation's individual needs, including e.g. Search & Selection, contingency contract / interim recruitment and sole agency outsourced solutions.
• We cultivate long-term partnerships with the senior management of major blue-chip companies.
• We constantly track technology standards and market change to stay ahead of the industry needs.
• We have very loyal clients. The reason? When it comes to executive recruitment and management recruitment for the payments industry we always deliver.