SCAPE exclusive recruitment partnership

Architecture & Design

SCAPE

SCAPE Group needed a final Senior Architect with relevant sector experience to add value from day one. An exclusive search delivered the right hire in 22 working days.

Tom Stewart, Director at Konker

Your recruiter on this search

Tom Stewart

Director | Architecture & Design

Tom led this exclusive Senior Architect search end to end, from qualifying the brief to securing the accepted offer.

22

Working days to accepted offer

8

Working days to submission

1

Hire made

The challenge

SCAPE Group had already hired well directly earlier in the year, but this final role in the team was proving harder to fill. With a strong pipeline of upcoming projects, resource was becoming stretched and the gap was starting to bite. The brief was clear: they did not just want a body in the seat, they wanted the right person, with relevant sector experience, to come in and add value from day one. Getting that balance of speed and fit was the whole task.

What we did

We qualified the role in detail, mapped the relevant market and ran a targeted search focused on architects with the right sector background rather than a broad, scattered approach. That focus paid off.

The outcome

A stretched team got the right hire, not just a fast one. SCAPE Group loved the candidate, offered quickly after interview, and the acceptance landed inside three working weeks of qualifying the brief. Relevant sector experience, secured at pace, with the pressure of upcoming projects lifted.

The search in numbers

Market reach

53
Relevant professionals mapped
48
Contacted by phone, email & LinkedIn
87%
Email open rate

Search activity

28
Direct phone calls
19
LinkedIn approaches
15
Email sequences

Results

8
Live conversations
4
Formally submitted
2
Interviewed
1
Hired

Timeline

  1. Wednesday 10 June 2026

    Role qualified and search launched

  2. Monday 22 June 2026

    Successful candidate submitted (8 working days after qualifying the role)

  3. Friday 10 July 2026

    Offer accepted (14 working days from submission)

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