Executive Recruitment

Finding leaders who transform organisations

Leadership appointments define your organisation’s future. Hope & Glory’s executive recruitment service identifies marketing and communications leaders who bring strategic vision, proven capability and the influence to drive meaningful change. Through confidential, consultative search processes, we connect you with C-suite executives and senior managers who elevate performance and culture.

Our Executive Recruitment Service

Executive recruitment demands discretion, strategy and deep market intelligence. Senior marketing and communications appointments require candidates with proven leadership capability, strategic thinking, stakeholder management skills and cultural fit at the highest levels of your organisation.

Hope & Glory conducts thorough executive searches combining targeted headhunting, confidential market mapping and rigorous assessment. We understand the complexities of senior appointments, board dynamics, change management capability, industry knowledge and leadership style all matter as much as technical expertise.

Our executive recruitment clients include ASX-listed corporations, government departments, major not-for-profits and membership organisations seeking Chief Marketing Officers, Heads of Communications, Marketing Directors and General Managers. Every search is confidential, strategic and tailored to your specific leadership needs.

Hope & Glory logo

Why Choose Hope & Glory for Executive Recruitment

Executive appointments are too important to leave to chance. Hope & Glory’s specialist focus on marketing and communications leadership means we understand what separates good leaders from transformational ones.

  • Specialist marketing and communications focus – Deep understanding of leadership requirements across CMO, CCO and senior marketing roles
  • Confidential executive search process – Discreet market mapping and approach candidates not actively seeking new roles
  • Rigorous leadership assessment – Beyond skills and experience, we evaluate strategic thinking, cultural fit and change capability
  • Australia-wide executive networks – Access to senior leaders across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors nationally
  • Strategic advisory approach – We act as trusted advisors throughout the search, offering market insight and leadership counsel
Lady smiling on interview

Executive Roles We Fill

Hope & Glory recruits senior marketing and communications leaders across C-suite and executive management levels. Roles include Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Communications Officer, Marketing Director, Communications Director, Head of Brand, Head of Digital, General Manager Marketing and Group Marketing Manager positions.

Executive candidates require sophisticated assessment beyond standard recruitment processes. We evaluate strategic capability, stakeholder influence, change leadership, commercial acumen and cultural alignment. Reference checking is extensive and includes confidential conversations with former colleagues, board members and industry contacts.

Every executive search begins with comprehensive briefing sessions covering organisational strategy, board expectations, team dynamics, cultural considerations and success metrics. This depth of understanding enables us to present leaders who can navigate complexity and drive meaningful outcomes from day one.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does executive recruitment take?

Executive searches typically take 8-16 weeks from briefing to offer acceptance, though timelines vary based on role complexity, market conditions and candidate availability. We balance thoroughness with efficiency.

Executive recruitment involves confidential market mapping, proactive headhunting of passive candidates, board-level stakeholder management, extensive leadership assessment and more complex negotiation. It requires different expertise and methodology.

Our service includes strategic briefing and role design, confidential market mapping, executive search and approach, comprehensive assessment and interviewing, psychometric testing where appropriate, detailed reference checking, offer negotiation and onboarding consultation.

Yes. We provide extended guarantee periods for executive placements reflecting the strategic importance and longer integration timeframes. Terms are agreed at the outset of each search.

Confidentiality is fundamental to executive search. We conduct discreet market approaches, maintain secure candidate data, brief stakeholders on confidentiality protocols and never disclose client or candidate identities without explicit permission.

Executive recruitment fees are typically structured as retained search arrangements reflecting the strategic nature and resource commitment involved. We provide transparent fee proposals based on role seniority and complexity during initial consultations.

A Quick Video About Us

Based on 18 reviews

Ampersand
Ebook cover

10 essential considerations before hiring a recruiter

As an employer hiring staff, this guide helps you choose the right recruitment partner – covering key factors, avoiding pitfalls, and attracting top talent.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
This field is hidden when viewing the form

Privacy Policy

This web site is owned and operated by Big Sky Corporate Pty Ltd trading as Hope and Glory and will be referred to as “We”, “our” and “us” in this Internet Privacy Policy. By using this site, you agree to the Internet Privacy Policy of this web site (“the web site”), which is set out on this web site page. The Internet Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on the web site.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Internet Privacy Policy at any time. This Internet Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the web site. We do not make any representations about third party web sites that may be linked to the web site.

We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our web site, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”). This Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the web site, will be dealt with. This Internet Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.

Personal Information

1. Personal information about visitors to our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.

Use of Information

2. Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose, unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the web site, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

Collecting information on Registered members

3. As part of registering with us, we collect personal information about you in order for you to take full advantage of our services. To do this it may be necessary for you to provide additional information to us as detailed below.

Registration

4. Registration is completely optional. Registration may include submitting your name, email address, address, telephone numbers, option on receiving updates and promotional material and other information. You may access this information at any time by logging in and going to your account.

Disclosure

5. Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.

6. We may engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.

Security

7. We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

8. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

9. In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

Collecting Information from Users

IP Addresses

10. Our web servers gather your IP address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services. Again, information is gathered in aggregate only and cannot be traced to an individual user.

Cookies and Applets

11. We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. These cookies allow us to increase your security by storing your session ID and are a way of monitoring single user access.

This aggregate, non-personal information is collated and provided to us to assist in analysing the usage of the site.

Access to Information

12. We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.

13. In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

Links to other sites

14. We provide links to Web sites outside of our web sites, as well as to third party Web sites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that Web site and its privacy statement.

Problems or questions

15. If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our web sites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us.

16. For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s web site; http://www.privacy.gov.au/.