Zoe Whitehead

Senior Consultant, Interim Leadership

Zoe has worked in recruitment for over 10 years, working across both the private and public sector.  She has been with GatenbySanderson since 2005 and has progressed through a number of key roles including a Senior Permanent Recruitment Consultant, Manager of the in-house search team and, since Christmas 2010, a Senior Consultant for our Interim Leadership division.

She has been involved in the recruitment of numerous Chief Executives, Executive Directors, Heads of Service and Project Directors/Managers across Local Government and the broader public sector both in a permanent and interim capacity.  This has included working with county, unitary, met and district councils, housing organisations, waste authorities, regulatory organisations and the voluntary sector.  She has recruited across all disciplines, being a generalist, with a broad portfolio of clients.

During her career with GatenbySanderson, she has also been involved in major restructuring work in Housing and Local Government, including project managing the internal assimilation process and external recruitment for the top 2 tiers of the two new unitary authorities in Cheshire (58 posts).

Prior to her career in recruitment, Zoe trained with one of the 'Big 5' accountancy firms for 4 years and from here moved into senior tax recruitment in London.  Having then worked for a private sector contingency recruiter in the regions, she moved into senior executive search and selection with GatenbySanderson to focus on the public sector.