Managed service

Outsourced hiring departments.

We help customers manage costs, ensure compliant onboarding programmes and drive direct sourcing capabilities through embedded and fully outsourced hiring solutions. Compliment your existing HR function with embedded Kite team members, outsource your talent function entirely or explore our hiring tools to drive efficiency and sourcing performance.

Our solutions reduce time to hire whilst actively improving the candidate journey for every single applicant.

Outsourced hiring
Embedded talent
Rapid scaling

The team was built around our culture, not around a supplier model. White labelled, office-based and reporting directly to us — it simply felt like our own talent function.

HR Director, Brevan Howard

Rapid scaling and market entry.

Kite has managed team builds in the financial markets for over 20 years, working with stakeholders to deliver seamless, successful hiring journeys. Whether market entry, capability build or a full team turnaround, we deliver our full award-winning hiring methodology. Our digital talent rooms allow you to dynamically review your shortlists — watch our interviews with prospective candidates, review their CVs and read their technical assessments. As with every Kite hiring journey, you only meet the people you agree match your culture and your technical requirements.

Hire with confidence. Every hire you make through Kite comes with our successful hire guarantee.

Over twelve months Nathan and his team have successfully recruited our new trading team. Kite have filled a diverse set of roles spanning from a Chief Economist with high end auction and game theory expertise, through to experienced trading operations, customer operations and technology operations resources.

Managing Director, Global Dairy Trade

Built around your business.

A successful hire can look different from company to company. Someone can shine in one business and struggle in even their nearest competitor. We work with you to understand what good looks like for your team and your business. We make no assumptions and invest the time it takes to build an accurate picture of who you need and exactly what a great hire looks like for you.

Want to know a little more? Take a look at some selected case studies below.

Selected case studies

Case study · Managed Service

Brevan Howard

The challenge

Brevan Howard is one of the world's leading macro hedge funds, with offices in London, Jersey, Geneva, New York, Houston, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Hiring was time-sensitive and complex, spread across those locations and across a wide range of technologies and investment asset classes.

The firm needed a dependable talent team that could scale, lift direct sourcing and protect the business from heavy agency fees. The people had to be senior, white-labelled, office-based five days a week and a fit for the existing HR culture.

Our service

We drew on our network to build a bespoke team of talent professionals, including the buy-side investment experience that is hardest to find. The team reports directly to Brevan Howard's Talent Manager and handles global requirements across every discipline.

Knowing that occasional agency support would still be needed, we added an overflow model: specialist hires come to Kite directly, at heavily reduced fees.

The result

Three full-time staff managing global sourcing and talent administration
A flexible team that scales up and down with hiring volumes
Forecast sourcing savings of more than £1.32m a year
Kite-managed tactical hires at half the usual one-off fees

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Case study · Managed Service

Global Dairy Trade

The challenge

Headquartered in New Zealand, GDT owns and runs the trading technology behind global dairy commodities. In 2023, backed by investment from Deutsche Börse, its investors chose Berlin for a European head office to drive expansion into EMEA.

GDT had no staff, suppliers or physical presence in the city, and many of the roles called for niche commodities, economic and technical expertise. The service included job descriptions and offer letters, referencing, vetting and right to work, mapping the Berlin talent market and making the hires.

Our service

We ran a full market mapping programme in Berlin so requirements could be set against what the market actually held, flagging both the straightforward roles and the ones likely to prove difficult.

We designed the job descriptions and offer letters, researched the German market on benefits, managed referencing, vetting and onboarding, and worked alongside the EMEA Managing Director as sole agent on all hiring.

The result

Every requirement filled since the service began in January 2024, including EMEA Chief Economist, General Manager and Head of Customer Engagement
End-to-end talent management and market research in a new location
Success-only terms, with research provided at no cost and no committed spend
A director-level point of contact throughout

Over twelve months Nathan and his team have successfully recruited our new trading team, from a Chief Economist with high-end auction and game theory expertise through to experienced trading, customer and technology operations people.
Managing Director, Global Dairy Trade

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Case study · Managed Service

Zodia Markets

The challenge

Zodia Markets is a regulated institutional crypto brokerage operating across London, Dublin, the UAE and Singapore. The firm took the decision to bring its compliance and onboarding function in house, replacing an outsourced provider whose contract carried a fixed end date.

The requirement was for a complete team based in the UAE, across Abu Dhabi and Dubai, operational before the incumbent provider ceased service. Kite was appointed to manage the build in full.

Our service

Kite mapped the UAE market for compliance and onboarding professionals with crypto sector experience, establishing the available talent across the region before any approach was made.

All suitable candidates were approached and headhunted directly. Given the scale of the resulting pool, shortlists were presented through a digital talent room, allowing the client to review recorded interviews and technical assessments before agreeing whom to meet.

Kite managed referencing and employee onboarding through to completion.

The result

Full team appointed and in post within seven weeks
Operational ahead of the incumbent provider's contract end
The UAE market mapped in full, with all suitable candidates approached directly
Recorded interviews and technical assessments provided for every shortlisted candidate
Referencing and onboarding managed alongside the appointments

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Case study · Managed Service

GFT Technologies

The challenge

GFT Technologies is a financial markets and technology consultancy. On extending its European operation into London, the firm held no in-house capability for specialist financial markets resourcing or consultant selection.

Growth in the UK depended on the identification and selection of consultants with demonstrable financial markets expertise, at a pace the leadership team could not sustain alongside the demands of establishing the business.

Our service

GFT appointed Kite to deliver consultant selection and talent acquisition as an outsourced function. Kite assumed responsibility for the full process, from market mapping and candidate approach through to selection and offer management.

The arrangement allowed GFT to concentrate on its core proposition and strategic growth rather than on the management of recruitment.

The result

UK headcount increased by more than 800% over the course of the partnership
A business established in single figures now numbering several hundred people in the UK
Specialist financial markets consultants selected without an internal recruitment function
Leadership capacity preserved for client delivery and growth

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Managed service

Outsourced hiring departments.

Outsourced hiring

Embedded talent

Rapid scaling

Rapid scaling and market entry.

Built around your business.

Selected case studies