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Gavin Warner

Managing Director
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As Managing Director at Sheridan Maine, Gavin sets the strategic direction of the business and ensures the firm continues to evolve around the changing needs of clients, candidates and the recruitment market.

With a hands-on, people-first leadership style, Gavin works closely with Sheridan Maine’s management team and consultants to create an environment in which specialist recruiters can perform at their best. His focus is on combining strong leadership, market expertise, technology and high standards of delivery to ensure clients receive a consistently professional recruitment service.

Central to that strategy is Sheridan Maine’s ability to provide organisations with a genuinely flexible range of recruitment solutions across contingency recruitment, targeted and retained search, and interim and contract hiring.

Gavin believes that no two hiring challenges are exactly the same. Some requirements demand the speed and reach of an established contingency recruitment network. Others require a more structured search methodology to identify and engage high-calibre professionals who may not be actively looking for a new role. In other circumstances, organisations need experienced interim or contract professionals who can make an immediate impact during periods of change, transformation, growth or unexpected absence.

His role is to ensure Sheridan Maine has the consultants, expertise, technology, market intelligence and operational support required to deliver each of these solutions effectively.

Gavin places particular emphasis on developing specialist knowledge within Sheridan Maine’s teams. Consultants are encouraged to understand their markets in depth, build long-term relationships and act as genuine advisers to the organisations and professionals they represent, rather than simply operate as transactional recruiters.

He also champions innovation and the intelligent use of technology and data throughout the business. By combining modern recruitment tools with experienced consultants and extensive professional networks, Sheridan Maine is able to identify talent more effectively, provide clients with meaningful market intelligence and deliver sophisticated recruitment campaigns across permanent, interim and search assignments.

Gavin believes that strong relationships and individual development remain at the heart of sustainable business performance. He actively promotes a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement, giving managers and consultants the support, coaching and autonomy required to develop their expertise and deliver outstanding results.

Under his leadership, Sheridan Maine continues to develop as a specialist accounting, finance, audit and tax recruitment consultancy capable of supporting organisations throughout the full recruitment lifecycle — from an urgent contingency or interim requirement through to a confidential, business-critical executive search.

Ultimately, Gavin’s focus is straightforward: ensure Sheridan Maine has the people, capability and culture required to understand each client’s hiring challenge, recommend the right recruitment solution and deliver it exceptionally well.

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