About

Who we are

Bowers Partnership is a specialist search and selection business, set up by Natalie Bowers in 2013. We work only with investment managers, asset owners, wealth managers and investment platforms, filling any role from analyst to Director, contract and permanent.

Natalie brings more than 30 years’ experience at C-level, and is a trusted adviser and confidant to the leaders she works with. We’re small on purpose. You get one person who understands your business, picks up the phone, and follows through. Coaching for every candidate, and for senior clients, comes as part of the service, at no extra fee.

Why recruitment

Natalie has worked in and around corporate IT since she was 19. Before recruitment she ran teams and hired for them herself, across sales, admin, credit control and technical services. Her focus was always customer satisfaction, retention and service: a can do, win/win approach she still applies every day in this business.

When she wanted to step back from day to day management, there was only one way to go. Recruitment let her keep doing the part of the job she’d always done well, without running the operation as well.

At the first agency she joined, she was instrumental in modernising the business, transforming how it worked as well as its results. When she left to set up Bowers Partnership in 2013, her operational experience really came into play. Running a business is different from running a desk, and she had done it before.

That background still shapes how we work. Natalie has sat on the hiring side of the table. She has built teams and lived with the results of good hires and bad ones. That’s why she recruits as if she were hiring for her own business: she’s done exactly that.

And she doesn’t believe in targets. She believes in doing the best for people, clients and candidates alike. That’s what drives every search we run.

Giving back

Natalie supports SOS Children’s Village Barrett Town, near Montego Bay in Jamaica, which provides a safe, supportive and loving home for the children and young people in its care. She visits on her trips to the island with a suitcase full of clothes, books, toys and school supplies, and when she can’t get there in person, she ships a barrel instead. The children call her “Miss Bowers”.

To find out more about their work, or to support it, visit SOS Children’s Villages Jamaica. You can read about Natalie’s visits on our Media page.

Closer to home, Natalie mentors one or two young people at a time, usually the sons and daughters of people in her network, and helps them get their first job. That means help with their CV, preparing for interviews, coaching, and plenty of encouragement along the way. She does it free of charge, because everyone deserves someone in their corner at the start.

For candidates

Tell us what you want next and we’ll only call you about roles that genuinely fit. We’ll be honest about the rate or salary, the client and your chances, and we never send your CV anywhere without asking you first.

We don’t advertise our roles. Most of what we fill goes to people we already know, so the best way in is to get on our radar and stay there. We don’t work to targets either, so there’s no reason for us to push you into the wrong move.

Every candidate gets coaching as part of the service, at no cost. That means interviews and offers, but also how to progress, how to navigate the politics, how to manage upwards and, when the time comes, how to handle an exit.

If you contract, we know the rules inside out: IR35, umbrella and limited company working, and what each means for you. Umbrella contractors are paid through Omnia Resourcing, so contracts and pay are simple, and for outside IR35 engagements we work with Qdos to make sure your status is insured.

Register with us, or read more on our candidates page.

For clients

We start by understanding what you actually need, not just what the job spec says: the team, the gap, what good looks like in a year. Then we go out and find that person, including people who aren’t looking. You get a short list of candidates who are right for the role and want it, not a pile of CVs.

We work as an extension of your team. We get to know your business well enough to sell it with real conviction, because the best candidates are usually happy where they are and need a good reason to move. We stand up for you and for the candidate, because a hire only works if it’s right for both.

Contract or permanent, one role or a team, analyst to Director: get in touch and we’ll tell you honestly what the market will give you. Existing clients get free benchmarking of roles, salaries and rates. We know the regulation that comes with hiring contractors, from IR35 to right to work, so it’s done properly. Senior clients get coaching as part of the service too, at no extra fee.

Hiring at senior level? See how we run an executive search, or read more about working with us.