Helping ambitious people find work that suits them.
Marlow & Finch is a regional recruitment consultancy. Permanent, contract, and interim roles across all our specialisms.
Five specialisms.
Deep relationships in each.
We focus on sectors where our consultants have material industry experience. Within those we work on permanent, contract, and interim roles from mid-career through to director level.
Commerce
Sales, marketing, commercial, and general management roles across the South East. From Sales Manager to Commercial Director.
Finance
Qualified and part-qualified finance roles across permanent, interim, and contract. From Management Accountant to Finance Director.
Technology
Software development, IT operations, and technical leadership roles across the regional market.
Operations
Operations, supply chain, logistics, and procurement appointments across SME and mid-market businesses.
Executive Support
Executive Assistants, Office Managers, and Operations Coordinators. Often the hardest roles to get right.
Live roles,
currently on our desk.
Commercial Director
Senior commercial leadership role at an established regional brewer entering its next phase of growth. Lead a team of fifteen across sales, marketing, and customer accounts.
Financial Controller
Number-two finance role at a fast-growing logistics group. Take ownership of monthly close, statutory reporting, and a four-person finance team.
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Senior developer role at a Brighton-based B2B SaaS business. Modern stack, considered engineering culture, genuine product ownership.
Operations Manager
Operations leadership role at a specialist food manufacturer. Own production planning, shift management, and continuous improvement.
A regional consultancy that does the work itself.
Marlow & Finch has been independently owned and run since 2008. We have grown carefully — a tight team of consultants, working on hundreds of placements a year. We have never owned a database we paid for. We have never bought a candidate list. We work the way good regional consultancies have worked for a generation, refined by what we have learned along the way.
The result is the kind of relationship you get with a smaller firm — your consultant knows your business, has likely worked with your existing team, and will tell you honestly when a brief is wrong.
Specialist consultants
Every brief is handled by a consultant with material experience in that sector. Not a generalist with a database.
Honest conversations
We will tell you when the brief is wrong, the salary is wrong, or the role is harder than you think. The conversation is the work.
Realistic shortlists
Three to five strong candidates, each spoken to at length. No bulk-emailed CVs. No CVs-by-the-yard.
Replacement guarantees
12-week guarantee on contingent placements; 26 weeks on retained. Reflective of how seriously we take placement quality.
What we're
writing about.
South East Salary Survey 2026: What the market is actually paying
Our 2026 placement data across Commerce, Finance, Technology, Operations, and Executive Support. The figures the job ads aren't telling you.
The counter-offer trap: why accepting one usually doesn't work out
Roughly 80% of candidates who accept a counter-offer have left the original employer within 18 months. Here's what's actually going on.
Hiring when you can't pay London salaries: what actually works
Regional SMEs competing with London-bid talent budgets. Three things that make the difference, and three things that don't.
A close team.
Each one a specialist.
Every brief is run by someone who has personally specialised in that sector — most often for years.
A conversation,
no obligation.
Whether you're hiring or thinking about your next move, we'd be happy to talk. The first call is 30 minutes, by phone, no follow-up unless you'd like one.
We respond to every email within one working day.