Mark Lightburn

Founding Director at Artis Recruitment and Cogito Talent Limited. Executive recruitment specialist, rugby enthusiast and cider maker

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

About

As a founding director at Artis Recruitment, I have over 18 years of experience in providing bespoke recruitment services to executive and senior level professionals across the UK EMEA and the US. I specialize in placing experienced individuals into strategic and technical roles on both a permanent and interim basis. My team and I offer a full-service recruitment consultancy that combines market knowledge with exceptional Search, assessment expertise. In addition to my role at Artis Recruitment, I also serve as a director at Cogito Talent Ltd, where I create and improve people strategies through evidence-based insights. I believe that by combining insights with expertise, organizations can transform their talent attraction, engagement, development, and retention processes. I have a proven track record of delivering true consultancy and adding real value to the recruitment process for all parties involved.

Experience

  • Founding Director at Artis Recruitment
    Nov 2007 - Present · 18 yrs 9 mos

    If we haven't already, lets connect, I am sure we know people in common. As part of Artis Recruitment Ltd, Artis Executive a specialist full-service recruitment consultancy We operate across the UK EMEA and US, placing experienced professionals into executive operational, strategic and technical roles on both a permanent and interim basis. We're an experienced team of recruiters, and our commitment and passion for what we do help us provide the service excellence we feel our customers deserve. We offer a bespoke recruitment service to all our customers, deploying only the most appropriate strategies for your needs. Whatever your recruitment requirement we deliver real value to your organisation through the application of in-depth market knowledge, proven methodologies and first class customer service. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get in touch

  • Director at Cogito Talent Ltd
    Sep 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

    Creating Strategies with unrivalled people insights An experienced and innovative provider of multi-platform talent solutions to globally recognised brands and SMEs. Driven to create and improve people strategies through utilisation of evidence based insight. I believe that by combining insights with expertise, organisations will be empowered to transform the ways in which they attract, engage, develop and retain talented people who make their business great.

  • Senior Manager at Hays
    Aug 2000 - Dec 2007 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    A senior recruiter with over seven years' experience working for a market-leading international recruitment consultancy, where he specialised in Senior & Executive Appointments within the Customer Contact markets across the South West and South Wales and Scotland. Mark's approach to recruitment consultancy is to work closely with both client and candidate to fully understand their business needs and career aspirations respectively, and to form lasting, long-term and trusted partnerships. This, together with his exceptional market knowledge, gives Mark the insight to deliver true consultancy and to add real value to the recruitment process for all parties.