Your talent function. Scaled, specialised, embedded.
Our Total Talent Management practice goes beyond one-off search. We embed alongside your in-house team to deliver the full spectrum of talent work — strategic workforce planning, leadership pipeline, high-volume hiring, project staffing and everything in between.
We design the model around your organisation. You get the depth of a specialist sports search firm, the agility of an embedded talent team and a commercial structure that flexes with your needs.
WHEN ONE SEARCH ISN’T THE ANSWER
Most clients come to us for a single leadership hire. Some come to us because hiring isn’t the question — capacity is.
You might be scaling fast and need ten roles filled in a quarter. You might be launching a new venue, a new league, a new event and need an entire team built. You might have an excellent in-house talent function that’s stretched too thin, or none at all. You might be a growing organisation where the strategic ambition has outpaced the hiring capability.
Total Talent Management is built for those situations. Instead of running search after search as separate engagements, we partner with you on the whole talent picture — bringing the people, the processes and the market expertise of a specialist sports talent function, embedded inside your organisation for as long as you need us.
A FULL-SPECTRUM TALENT PARTNERSHIP
We design every engagement around what you actually need. Most partnerships combine some or all of the following:
Strategic workforce planning More
Modelling the talent you’ll need against where the organisation is going
End-to-end recruitment delivery More
From brief to offer, across leadership, mid-management and high-volume roles
Leadership pipeline and succession More
Building benches of internal and external talent ready for the moments that matter
Employer brand and EVP More
Positioning your organisation as a destination for the talent you want
Onboarding and early-career integration More
Protecting the investment in every hire
Talent intelligence and market mapping More
Keeping you ahead of competitor moves, salary shifts and emerging skills
Diversity, equity and inclusion strategy More
Embedded across every stage of the hiring lifecycle, not bolted on
You choose the breadth. We bring the team and the methodology to deliver it.
FOUR WAYS TO ENGAGE
Total Talent Management isn’t a single product. It’s a set of commercial models we shape around the way you want to work:
Embedded Talent Team
A dedicated team of EISG specialists working inside your business as an extension of your talent function. Branded as yours or as ours, depending on what suits.
Project Recruitment
A defined, time-bound engagement to deliver a specific hiring goal — a new venue, a tournament, a commercial launch, a transformation programme.
RPO and Hybrid Delivery
Full or partial recruitment process outsourcing for organisations that want the operational lift of an outsourced model with the discretion of a specialist sports partner.
Talent Function Build
For organisations creating an in-house talent capability for the first time, we design, build and transition the function — and stay close once you run it yourself.
BUILT FOR SCALE MOMENTS
Total Talent Management earns its place at the moments when hiring becomes a strategic problem rather than a tactical one. We’re trusted by clients navigating:
- New ownership or significant investment — building or rebuilding the team across multiple functions at once
- Venue openings, redevelopments and major capital projects — staffing operations, hospitality, commercial and matchday teams against fixed deadlines
- League launches, expansion and franchise builds — populating an entire organisation from a standing start
- Major events and hosting cycles — scaling and de-scaling around a World Cup, Olympics or multi-year tournament
- Organisational transformation and restructure — managing high-volume change with discretion and care
- High-growth phases — keeping pace with hiring demand without compromising on quality or culture
COGNITIVE DIVERSITY BY DESIGN
When we partner at scale, we partner at depth — and that means we bring talent from across sport and the most relevant adjacent sectors. Sport increasingly competes for talent with the world’s most sophisticated consumer brands, media businesses and technology platforms, and the best embedded partnerships draw on both.
Through our networks, we bring credible candidates from FMCG, media, retail, technology, hospitality, healthcare and management consulting, alongside our deep bench of sports operators. Sports expertise where it matters. Fresh thinking where it counts.
RIGOROUS ASSESSMENT, EVERY TIME
Every candidate we present — whether for a board seat or a graduate scheme — has been through our full Talent Assessment framework, calibrated to the level and complexity of the role. Structured, bias-free, and built to give your in-house team confidence in every hire we deliver on your behalf.
WHY WE WOULD BE A GREAT TALENT PARTNER
Managing talent at scale requires a partner who understands your organisation as well as the market. We embed ourselves in your world and deliver accordingly.
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Fanatical
Fanatical about delivering a brilliant service for clients and candidates. Fanatical about creating opportunities for future legends. We do this because we genuinely love the industry and everything it brings!
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Diverse
Embedded partnership lets us go deeper on diversity than one-off search ever can. We design every stage of the hiring lifecycle — from workforce planning to onboarding — to attract, assess and retain talent that reflects the diversity of the industry and fans you serve. Across sport and the most relevant adjacent sectors.
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Trusted
When we embed inside an organisation, we hold sensitive information, shape critical decisions and influence team culture. The clients who choose Total Talent Management trust us with all of it — because we behave like part of their team, not a supplier sitting on the outside.
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Precise
Scale doesn’t mean compromise. From senior leadership to high-volume hiring, every candidate we present has been through assessment calibrated to the level and complexity of the role. The same rigour, applied at every level, across every engagement.
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Innovative
We design embedded models that don’t yet exist on the market — combining the depth of specialist sports search with the operational agility of an in-house team. The shape of the partnership flexes with what you need; the quality of the work doesn’t.
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Relentless
The Executives in Sport team are passionate, agile experts who live and breathe the sports industry. They work hard and smart to deliver results — no shortcuts, no compromises, just dedication and passion all the way.
