Health & Life
Leadership, operations and commercial talent across health, wellbeing and life-science businesses.
Talent strategy for companies and people who want the next move to mean more.
DiscoverWork, aligned.
Our mission
People are not positions to fill.
We connect ambition, capability and company context — so a hire becomes a durable fit, not a short-term transaction.
How we work →18specialist markets covered
72htypical first shortlist window
91%fictional demo retention metric
Human by design
Listen first.
Then move.
Search works better when it starts with what success actually looks like: the work, the environment, the trajectory and the person behind the CV.
Industry focus
Where context matters most.
We focus on sectors where specialist knowledge, trust and a strong candidate experience materially change outcomes.
Innovation
Product, technology and transformation professionals for teams building new systems and services.
Financial Excellence
Finance, risk and investment specialists for institutions and scaling corporate teams.
Why Alder West
01
Guidance at every step
One senior point of contact from first brief through interview, offer and onboarding.
02
Broader connections
Warm introductions and long-term relationships across leadership, specialist and emerging talent communities.
03
Market intelligence
Role calibration, compensation context and candidate feedback converted into usable decisions.
04
Career resources
Positioning, interview preparation and practical support without turning candidates into templates.
05
Measured follow-through
We stay involved after acceptance because the quality of a search is proven after the start date.
Client voices
What good partnership feels like.
“They challenged the brief in exactly the right places and found someone we would never have reached through a standard search.”
“The process felt calm, candid and unusually specific. Every conversation moved the decision forward.”
