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Top 25 Retained executive search firms based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 101 retained executive search firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 1,020 professional contacts across them, including 497 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers retained executive search firms headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest retained executive search firms based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1961 by Malcolm Sheffield, we began as Aotearoa New Zealand’s first organisational psychology and executive recruitment practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tribe Recruitment Group is a 100% New Zealand owned full service, end-to-end national recruitment agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H2R Consulting is a New Zealand owned recruitment and consulting firm with a national presence across Auckland and Wellington, supported by a team of 50 staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that if you hire the right people everything else just falls into place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Hunter Campbell, we are leaders searching for leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Because everybody's different, we make sure our approach to your recruitment is as unique as you are.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connecting Excellence We are drawn to businesses and people who aspire to excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JacksonStone & Partners helps organisations find the right people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kerridge & Partners is a boutique consultancy business with offerings in Executive Search, Governance and Leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 20 years, Brannigans has been a leader in connecting top-tier talent with visionary organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hobson Leavy is an executive search firm that believes Leaders Matter™ Simply put we’re experts in executive search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Recruitment consultancy and executive search specialists based in Auckland and Wellington, partnering with businesses across New Zealand to secure top talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Partnering with businesses since 2004 Graham Consulting offers a professional and innovative approach to candidate search, recruitment and placement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Senior Executive Recruiters who use innovation to ensure assignment completion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Convergence is a New Zealand based executive recruitment and specialist search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Profile Group is an experienced recruitment and search firm that works with businesses and candidates across a range of disciplines such as Accounting, Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SEQEL Partners is a leading New Zealand Executive Search and Leadership Advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are problem solvers, fuelling the ambition of owners, innovators, and leaders to accelerate success through people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grada Recruitment is a leading specialist Recruitment and Consulting Services provider to the Engineering and Architecture industries across New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2008, Decipher Group is a leading provider of high-quality recruitment and talent consulting services to businesses throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Technical Futures is a dynamic technical and executive recruitment consultancy; delivering effective, innovative recruitment and search solutions to private and public sector…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Ahikā Recruitment we have a team of highly skilled consultants with over 4 decades of experience combined.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recruiting exceptional executives for extraordinary enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bishop Associates is a Christchurch-based executive search and recruitment consultancy trusted by organisations who care as much about values and fit as they do about skills and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Right People to Find the Right People Saturn Group is a New Zealand owned firm, a company founded by seasoned professionals to provide a different service in the executive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: retained executive search firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names retained executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retained executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retained executive search firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Retained executive search firms based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for New Zealand, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New Zealand, over 101 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retained executive search firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “retained executive search firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retained executive search firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retained executive search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 497 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Retained executive search firms by metro
- Retained executive search firms in Auckland51
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retained executive search firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many retained executive search firms are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 101 retained executive search firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sheffield, headquartered in Auckland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retained executive search firms?
Auckland leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (12) and Wellington (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 497 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 101 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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