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A Vacancy Is Not a Hiring Strategy 

Filling a seat is easy to measure. Hiring the right person is harder.   

DMC partners with organisations across Accounting & Finance, Commercial & Analytics, and Digital, Sales & Marketing to get beyond the brief, challenge the assumptions behind it and find the people who can genuinely move the business forward.   

You will get a clear view of the market, honest feedback on what is realistic and access to relationships built over decades. If the brief is off, the salary is behind or the unicorn does not exist, we will say so. 

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The Database Is Not the Differentiator

Every recruiter has a database. That is not the hard part. 

  

The hard part is knowing who is credible, what will make them listen and whether they are genuinely right for your business. 

  

DMC works with hiring managers, HR teams and business leaders to understand what the role must actually achieve, not simply what the position description says. Then we take that brief to the market with context, judgement and a point of view. 

  

We will not create fake urgency or flood your inbox with near-enough CVs. We will tell you what the market is saying, where the brief may fail and what needs to change to secure the right person. 

Markets We Know Properly

Accounting & Finance

Finance leadership, accounting and commercial finance talent, assessed with commercial context rather than keyword matching.

Commercial & Analytics

Commercial, data and analytics professionals who turn information into better decisions.

Digital, Sales & Marketing

Marketing, digital and sales talent who can create demand, sharpen customer experience and support growth.

Choose the Right Model, Not the Familiar One

Not every vacancy needs the same recruitment model. DMC supports one-off appointments, ongoing hiring partnerships and project-based needs across permanent, contract, fixed-term and retained recruitment. We will recommend the approach that suits the assignment, not the one that suits us. 

Retained Search

Our retained search service delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end recruitment solution for critical hires.

We partner closely with you to run a structured campaign, including:
  

  • Market mapping and talent identification
  • Targeted outreach strategies
  • Longlist and shortlist presentation

This approach ensures access to high-performing, hard-to-reach candidates.

Fees are agreed per assignment.

 

AdSearch Exclusivity

Partner exclusively with DMC for a highly focused and committed recruitment process.

We run targeted advertising campaigns across platforms such as LinkedIn and Seek, supported by our established candidate database and referral network.

Our team actively engages both clients and candidates to uncover high-quality referrals.

Exclusive partnerships benefit from preferential rates under our Terms of Business.

 

Contingent Search

Our contingent recruitment service is designed for speed and flexibility.

We leverage our network to quickly identify and present strong candidates for your role.
   

  • Fast shortlist turnaround
  • Access to active and passive candidates
  • No upfront cost

You only pay when a successful placement is made. Standard terms apply.

We place candidates on contracts of six months or longer, suited to:

  • Parental leave cover
  • Secondments and internal project backfill
  • Long-term leave cover
  • Transformation and system implementation projects (e.g. SAP, Salesforce, Power BI)

Candidates are paid directly by the client, with a pro-rata fee based on contract duration

Ideal for immediate or short-term resourcing needs, including:

  • Peak periods and seasonal demand
  • Sick leave and unplanned absences
  • Interim support during permanent recruitment processes

Flexible Recruitment Support Tailored to Your Hiring Needs. Not every recruitment assignment requires a traditional end-to-end recruitment solution.

Whether you're managing hiring internally, working alongside an internal talent team, or simply need support at specific stages of the recruitment process, DMC's Unbundled Recruitment Services provide the flexibility to engage our expertise exactly where it's needed.

Our tailored approach allows businesses to reduce administrative burden, improve hiring efficiency, and maintain control over their recruitment process without committing to a full-service recruitment engagement.

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Executive Search Partnership

DMC is a boutique advisory-led recruitment firm founded by Duncan McNeill and backed by executive search partner Perceptor Executive. Together, we provide clients with access to specialist executive search capabilities spanning leadership, C-suite, board and interim executive appointments, ensuring organisations can secure talent at every level of growth.

What You Should Expect From Us

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A Market View You Can Use

Clear intelligence on salary expectations, candidate sentiment and hiring conditions, drawn from conversations happening now.

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Reach, With Relevance

Access to people who are not scanning job boards, through relationships strong enough to start a credible conversation.

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Respectfully Blunt Advice

If the brief, process or offer is working against you, we will say it early and explain what to do differently.

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A Model That Fits the Hire

Permanent, contract, fixed-term, retained and unbundled options shaped around the complexity and stakes of the assignment.

Before You Go to Market, Let's Get the Brief Right 

Planning a hire, building a team or questioning what the market will bear? Bring us the brief, including the parts that are still unresolved.   

No theatre. No manufactured urgency. Just a commercially useful conversation about what will work.