Senior Recruitment Consultant / Executive Search Consultant

Paragon Talent is a specialist executive search firm working exclusively across the global Flavour, Fragrance & Ingredients markets.

We launched at the beginning of 2025 with the aim of building something genuinely specialist: a recruitment business known for understanding its markets properly, representing people well and delivering searches with a level of quality, transparency and care that clients remember.

Since then, we’ve grown quickly.

We work with manufacturers, ingredient businesses, flavour and fragrance houses and distributors across the US, UK and Europe, supporting senior appointments across Commercial, Technical, Operations, Supply Chain and Leadership.

Our work ranges from senior commercial and technical hires through to retained Director, VP and C-Suite searches, and we’ve built relationships with some of the most recognised businesses in our sectors.

We’re now looking for another experienced recruitment professional to join us and become an important part of the next stage of Paragon Talent.

The Opportunity

This is not a role for somebody who wants to inherit a narrow desk, follow a rigid process and be heavily managed.

There is a lot of freedom here.

You’ll have the autonomy to build your own market, develop your own relationships and become known as an expert within the sector you choose to specialise in.

We’re still a young business, which also means the opportunity goes much further than billing.

The right person can have a genuine influence over how Paragon develops: the markets we enter, the clients we work with, how we recruit, how we build the team and ultimately what the business becomes.

As the business grows, there is also the opportunity to build and lead your own team.

And financially, there is significant upside.

We offer a competitive salary based on experience, alongside a commission structure paying up to 50%. For somebody capable of building a strong desk, there is very little ceiling on what can be earned.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re not looking for perfection.

We’re looking for somebody with the right attitude, commercial ability and drive to build something.

You’ll need experience within recruitment, executive search or senior-level recruitment and a track record that shows you can develop relationships, manage searches properly and deliver.

Experience within Flavours, Fragrances, Food & Beverage Ingredients, Nutraceuticals, Pharmaceutical Ingredients or adjacent markets would obviously be valuable, but it isn’t essential.

What matters more is that you want to learn the market properly.

Our reputation is built on knowing the industries we recruit into, understanding the companies, meeting people face-to-face, attending the major international exhibitions and becoming genuinely useful to the people we work with.

We’d rather hire somebody curious, driven and determined to become excellent than somebody who simply happens to arrive with the right market knowledge.

You’ll probably suit us if you:

• Are highly self-driven and comfortable working with autonomy

• Have a strong track record within recruitment or executive search

• Enjoy developing long-term client relationships rather than chasing transactions

• Take pride in knowing your market and becoming a genuine specialist

• Are commercially ambitious and motivated by the opportunity to earn very well

• Care about the quality of the work you put your name to

• Want to contribute to building a business rather than simply work inside one

How We Work

Paragon is deliberately not built around volume recruitment.

We favour retained and exclusive search, proper market mapping and long-term client relationships.

We invest heavily in understanding our markets through international travel, industry events, client meetings and face-to-face relationships. We also use technology where it genuinely improves the recruitment process, including candidate video profiles, structured shortlist presentation and behavioural profiling.

Ultimately, though, the business is built around relationships.

Our view is simple: success in recruitment is not getting somebody to sign an offer. It is finding the right person who is still adding value years later.

That thinking shapes how we work with clients, candidates and each other.

Why Paragon Talent?

Joining Paragon now gives you something quite different from joining an established recruitment business with every seat, market and management position already taken.

There is room to build.

Room to create your own reputation.

Room to earn extremely well.

And room to become one of the influential people within the business as it grows.

We’re ambitious about where Paragon can go, but we’re equally conscious of how we get there.

The name Paragon means a model of excellence. We chose it deliberately.

We want to build a business recognised within our markets for expertise, integrity and quality, without losing the freedom, personality and entrepreneurial mindset that made us start the company in the first place.

We’re looking for somebody who wants to be part of that.

If that sounds interesting, apply directly or email contact@paragon-talent.com for a confidential conversation.