We specialise in working within the Marketing Agency sector, for start-ups, SMEs, and network agencies. We place candidates into Client Services, Strategy, Creative and UX, Digital Marketing, Data and Insight, Technology, Project and Studio Management, Operations and Senior Leadership roles.
Niche Expertise
Branding & Creative
We work with Branding and Creative agencies with a focus on building strong, memorable brand identities and driving innovative marketing strategy. With each agency aiming to understand and immerse themselves into their clients’ values, target audience, and goals as a brand, it’s essential we find skilled candidates who are dedicated to creating compelling brand experiences for their clients.
CRM & Data
Recruiting within the CRM, and Data agency space enables us to build a diverse network of candidates with skills combining strategy and insight to deliver for clients, and connect them with specialist agencies.
Digital & Performance
We work with specialist Digital, and Performance agencies that focus on a range of digital channels, with expertise in SEO, PPC, CRO, Social Media, Email and Content Marketing Strategies, connecting them with talented, digital and data driven candidates.
Integrated Marketing
We help full-service, integrated agencies find the talent they need to cover the entire marketing mix, such as digital marketing, PR, branding, comms, content marketing and social media, and strategic insight.
Media
We support Media agencies across the UK with core functions in Media Planning, Media Buying, and Campaign Management. We recruit for roles including Strategy, Planning, Buying, Creative, Research and Analytics.
PR & Communications
We work with a range of PR & Communications agencies, operating across a variety of industry sectors. B2B and B2C, Corporate, Financial, Trade, Tech, Healthcare, Travel & Hospitality, FMCG, Luxury Fashion and Retail, Lifestyle, and Sustainability, are just some of the specialisms of our clients. We focus on finding talent that aligns with each agency niche. This includes employee engagement, corporate communications, media relations, public affairs, social media & content, purpose-driven and sustainability comms.
Social & Content
Social & Content agencies require candidates with a passion for creating compelling content, and utilising social media to get the best results for clients. We connect talent to these agencies, driving their success in building brand awareness, increasing audience engagement, and driving growth through strategic marketing output.
Technology Design & Build
We work alongside our Technology Design & Build agency clients to connect them with talented individuals across web and app development, design, project management, client services, and strategy roles.
UX
Recruiting within the UX agency space enables us to find candidates with diverse UX/UI design, user research, and analytical skills, matching them with specialist UX agencies that focus on enhancing digital product interactions for users.
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Start-Up
We have extensive experience helping early-stage start-ups understand the talent markets they are operating in.
We act as Talent Consultants to help them write best-in-class job specs, salary benchmarking, employer branding, and support them to build a diverse team from the outset. We understand that candidates joining start-ups need to wear many hats and be committed to the journey ahead.
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SME
Once propositions have been proven and funding or growth are at a certain level, Agencies can then scale. This means high growth and building teams.
With our featured employer and branded campaign offerings and the resources we have available, we can be a recruitment partner that enables this growth. From high-volume campaigns to hiring across multiple niche skill sets, we have the experience to help you scale.
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Network agencies
We work with some of the leading network agencies, and we are always on hand to work with them to help them find the right balance of experience and skills that will enable them to add key talent, as well as build out new teams.
With UK-wide reach and the ability to source internationally, we are well-placed to support our clients in hiring the best talent out there.
Permanent Recruitment
Our permanent recruitment team are here to respond to the long-term changes within your business, from individual requirements through to volume recruitment drives.
Contract
Recruitment
Our contractor recruitment team is on hand to support you through the times where the need for a more flexible workforce is called for.
Outsourced Recruitment Partner
Our outsourced recruitment model covers the full breadth of your hiring needs and is often the perfect solution for businesses with multiple requirements.
Senior
Appointments
Our Senior Appointments recruitment service is built on deep technical and sector-specific background and expertise.
FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
- For ADLIB, ‘community’ covers a lot of ground. We support regional ecosystems, provide insight and advocate for international communities that are fighting for equality. The team has built their own communities from the ground up, we’ve supported community-based projects that improve people’s lives, and play an active role within the B Corp community.
- Sophie founded the MotherBoard Movement. 28 signatories, 960+ members, 12 events, 1 x Impact report. MotherBoard is an impact-based business model, designed to support career progression of females and mums and to support employers in retaining females and mums in the UK technology sector. Our profit will contribute towards the sponsorship and development of UK female refugees into long term employment within the tech industry.
- Mike, our SW Head of Tech, has co-founded and helped to grow the ‘GreenTech South West’ community. 2000+ members, 36 events.
- Alex, our Head of Data has co-founded the ‘Tech Ethics’ meetup group. 750+ members, 11 events. ‘Tech Ethics’ considers the benefits of AI and emerging technologies, but also the challenges and ethical concerns of the social implication and potential unintended consequences these technologies can have on our society.
- Charitable donations in 2023: £11,532.
- Volunteering. 3 fully paid days annually per employee.
- Grassroots Activation Programme. £6.8k donated, 1-1 young person mentorship, helping them secure their first work placement and setting them up for the long term.
- Nick, our CEO is a B Corp Ambassador, supporting fellow B2B service providers on all things B Corp. 20+ aspiring B Corps met with in 2022/ 2023.
- Gender balance. All company: 44% female, 2% non-binary, 54% male. Management: 45% female, 55% male.
- We are part of the Better Business Act, along with over 2000 UK businesses. The Better Business Act is fighting for a cleaner, greener, fairer future for all.
- Where do we go next? Employee ownership creates an infinite business model. We will strive to better our gender balance at all levels and build an inclusive board of directors as we enter ADLIB’s next chapter. Furthermore, our MotherBoard Charter will deliver its annual impact report, highlighting the achievements of its Charter members and increasingly use the data provided to support organisations fighting for legislative change at the government level.
FOR OUR PLANET 
- As a B2B service provider, we store an increasing amount of customer and candidate data. Given our learnings from within the Green Tech South West community, we are increasingly aware that the life cycle of storing, processing, and transmitting digital information is an area that we need to pay significant attention to.
- Beyond planting trees. We offset our annual emissions via a carefully selected range of projects within developing countries, that have strong additional benefits beyond reducing carbon emissions. These include health benefits, saving low-income families money and reducing deforestation in a village in Africa. All of the projects are certified to the Gold Standard and include efficient household cooking stoves and clean drinking water projects.
- 2022 Carbon Reporting. 16.2+ tonnes offset.
- E-waste. Our tech is recycled and disposed of responsibly.
- Where do we go next? The introduction of a data storage strategy across our CRM, website and internal documents, email management systems to significantly reduce our storage footprint.
When designing this website, keeping carbon emissions to a minimum has been a constant consideration along the way, for every page. We kept page weight to a minimum, opted for lean functional simplicity rather than fancy polluting features.
- 0117 926 9530
- hello@adlib-recruitment.co.uk
- Company registered in England and Wales
- No: 5138584.
- Member of APSCo.