Endeavour · Hospitality
The people who shape extraordinary hospitality are rarely looking for their next role.
We specialise in discreet, relationship-led headhunting for luxury hospitality businesses worldwide. From CDPs and Head Chefs to Executive Chefs, General Managers and senior hospitality leaders, we connect exceptional people with exceptional businesses.
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Of our placements passed probation
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Average time to fill
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Of our placements resulted in a tree being planted
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Of clients surveyed would recommend us
100% — Of clients surveyed would recommend usFigures as of our last financial year.
Who we work with
Our clients are a small, deliberately-chosen group of operators at the very top of the field. Most searches arrive by introduction, and every one is treated as private.
The rooms guests remember for a lifetime.
From heritage grande-dames on the Place Vendôme to boutique openings in the Aeolian islands and remote destination retreats in the high Andes, we support the leadership behind the houses that quietly redefine what a stay can mean.
Leadership Appointments
From the pass to the front door, from the cellar to the reservation book: these are the senior figures we place. Every name on this page is a search we have recently run or would take on tomorrow. Move across the field to bring one into focus.
Move across the field to bring one into focus.
This is a register of the senior appointments we run, not a menu. Every search begins with a conversation and a client we know.
Our difference
Every conversation is private and stays that way. We protect a candidate’s standing and a client’s intentions with equal care. Nothing is said that need not be.
Every candidate we put forward has spoken with us directly: that is the baseline, not the exception. Many come from relationships built over years close to the field, drawn from real knowledge of the market rather than a database.
Luxury hospitality is an international world with intensely local customs. We move between markets and understand what each dining room expects of its people.
We take few clients. We know their houses well. A short list served properly is worth more, to everyone, than a long one served at arm’s length.
Services
Whatever the shape of the need, permanent leadership, seasonal cover or market insight, we work in one specialism only: hospitality.
Permanent recruitment across every level of the kitchen and the floor, not only the top of it. Commis, CDPs, Pastry Chefs and Sous Chefs are as much our bread and butter as the General Managers, Executive Chefs and Hotel Directors above them.
Vetted cover for seasonal peaks, events and banqueting, or an interim leader to hold a kitchen or a house steady while a permanent search is run properly.
Compensation benchmarking, structure reviews and hiring market briefings for operators building or restructuring a team, drawn from the same networks our searches run on.
Our commitments
Endeavour Hospitality is the specialist hospitality arm of Endeavour Group. The practice is deliberately small: a short list of the finest operators, and candidates whose judgement is trusted at the highest level of the field.
Independently verified against the UK's ten standards for ethical, responsible business practice.
Halving our emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050, in line with the UN Race to Zero.
One placement, one tree: reforestation through our partner, so every successful search leaves something behind.
Every search is run on fair, skills-based assessment, open on merit alone and free from bias.
Client Referral Programme
Introduce us to a house that becomes a client and we’ll pay you £750 when we land the first placement, or send £1,000 to a charity of your choice.
See how it works£750
to you
£1,000
to charity
