Savvi Recruitment is a recruitment consultancy with a difference. Commercially aware, we are a close team of experienced professionals working with indigenous Irish and international companies to find the right people at the right time. Our approach is consultative, flexible, and strategic – we take great care to understand the values, culture, and mission of each organisation so that we can identify the best possible candidates. We can support you in areas such as:
Embedded as we are in the Irish marketplace, we bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear in our daily work. For employers, this means advice and feedback in areas such as hiring strategies, salary benchmarking, talent pipelining, and succession planning. For candidates, this means honest insights into the company culture and day-to-day realities of each role, plus close support and preparation during the recruitment process.
If you’re ready to transform your hiring practices and experience a truly exceptional recruitment partnership, talk to Savvi Recruitment. We can support you with flexible and tailored services in areas such as executive search, permanent recruitment, contract recruitment, temporary or contingency recruitment, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).
We're committed to a transformation in the recruitment landscape that puts people before placements. We help to reshape careers and redefine organisational success through our focus on people, knowledge, and value. In a world of corporate behemoths, our size is our strength; allowing us to foster closer and more personal connections, adapt rapidly to the evolving needs of both employers and candidates, and design bespoke solutions that result in fantastic return on investment.
We lead with our hearts and deliver with our heads. We are redefining recruitment the right way. The SavviWay.
In the same way that employees are most successful when they are aligned with your mission and values, your recruitment agency will deliver the best results when they understand how and why you work. At Savvi Recruitment, we live by the five values of passion, collaboration, courage, integrity, and respect.
PASSION: We have each chosen to be in recruitment because we love the work, and we love getting results. We understand how business works and can spot opportunities. Most importantly, we are genuinely excited about what those opportunities mean for people.
COLLABORATION: We establish equal and collaborative relationships with everyone we work with. We build long-term partnerships and work in everyone’s best interest. We celebrate the successes of others.
COURAGE: We do things differently and are happy to forge our own path when the established ones are taking us nowhere. We always speak the truth and will push back or advocate where needed. We are innovators and back new thinking.
INTEGRITY: We want the people we work with to trust our work and our word. That’s why we give our honest opinions and advice. We are accountable for our actions. We strive for excellence every single day and aim to always bring value.
RESPECT: We believe that great relationships are built on respect. That’s why we respect everyone’s time, attention, and experience. We deal with everyone equally and treat people the way we expect to be treated.
Savvi Recruitment was established in 2017 by Jennifer Cahill and Therese Cadell. With backgrounds in the financial services sector, they had a vision to build a pioneering knowledge-led recruitment business.
With offices in Dublin, Cavan, Cork, and Belfast, the Savvi Recruitment team is ready to guide you through the nuances of a constantly evolving talent market. If you’d like to know more about how we can help revolutionise your hiring process, talk to us today.
Our fearless leader Jennifer is both a pragmatist and an idealist. Most comfortable when out of her comfort zone, she is a connector of dots who finds real joy in the transformative power of a perfect candidate-employer match. Family time is often spent cheering on her children at the local sports ground.
Jennifer’s personal motto is, of course, “Feel the fear and do it anyway!”
As Co-founder of Savvi Recruitment Consultants, I lead our Executive Search division.
I spent my early career as a Chartered Tax Advisor advising some of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs and their families. I really enjoyed getting to know their individual success stories (and failures along the way) and relished the opportunity to gain such an insight into so many successful businesses.
Financial recruitment gave me the opportunity to develop my own commercial acumen whilst utilising the knowledge of financial markets and relationship management skills I developed in tax.
I am highly commercial and having worked with many entrepreneurs and business leaders in my career and now being a business owner myself, I have a keen understanding of the skills and traits my clients need to build successful businesses.
A Qualified Financial Advisor, Therese has discovered a calling that’s even more satisfying than guiding financial strategies: matching great people with growing companies. She loves recruitment so much that she can’t imagine doing anything else (unless Wimbledon ever comes knocking, that is).
Sport-loving Therese lives by the saying “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
As a Co-Founder of Savvi Recruitment Consultants, I lead the Finance and Accounting Division. I am a qualified Financial Advisor with 15 years' banking experience.
Previously I worked as a Treasury Relationship Manager in Anglo Irish Bank before moving into program/project management, working with companies and teams on specific projects ensuring they were delivered on budget and on time. My previous experience gives me the advantage of really being able to understand the client needs and I can identify the best people who can add value to their companies.
In my spare time I love to play tennis and follow Tipperary hurling and Munster rugby. I still hold on to the dream of one day I will play on centre court in Wimbledon!
Tenacious and curious by nature, John’s penchant for variety and problem-solving make him amazing at his job. His persistence and competitiveness aren’t just a boon to employers and candidates, as they also serve him well on the tennis court at the weekends.
A bit of a philosopher, John often returns to the Italian proverb, “At the end of the day, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
I’ve been in recruitment for longer now than I care to admit (15+ years), always within the financial services sector and with a current focus on risk and compliance. With an academic background in English & Philosophy (no jobs) and postgraduate in journalism and communications (no jobs either back then), I made the move into marketing in my early career before transitioning into recruitment after a couple of years. Many people say they fall into recruitment, but I made a conscious decision to enter the industry as I thought it was the perfect sector for a combination of marketing (storytelling), relationship building (listening) and making money (my marketing job was not well paid).
I’ve always worked on the agency side of recruitment as I think there is more autonomy, in that you get to choose who you work with on a variety of different roles. I joined Savvi in 2021 as their ethos of knowledge led, people centric and value add recruitment appealed to me. If you are looking to make a career move or build your team, I am always interested in having a conversation to see if we can help.
Straightforward Helga loves the impact she can make in someone’s life when she matches them with the perfect job. When she’s not working, you might catch her indulging her love of food and cooking or catching up on the latest sporting events.
Helga lives by the moto “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.”
I am the Director for HR & Finance Recruitment across industry for Savvi Recruitment. A graduate of Trinity College, I have over two decades of experience across the HR Profession. In my early career, I spent several years working in an in-house HR capacity across both the Financial Services and Energy Industry Sectors in London, Sydney Australia, and Saudi Arabia delivering on the talent agenda as well as streamlining HR processes and procedures. During this time, I also developed a passion for travel, experiencing new cultures travelling as far North as Greenland and the Arctic Circle to Tasmania in the Southern Hemisphere.
Returning to Ireland, I joined the world of Agency Recruitment and discovered that I really did have good problem-solving skills and an inner curiosity about what makes people tick! I really enjoy the diversity of working with Clients across industries, partnering to understand their challenges, their cultures and values, and the importance of being able to deliver on talent and culture alignment. It really is a huge privilege to be a small part of someone’s journey to secure the “right role” and after all these years it is still an incredible buzz when you can facilitate that happening.
When I am not working, I love to travel, cook my “one pots”, discover new restaurants, and get my yoga mat out. I am a big sports fan and an avid follower of tennis, rugby, and Formula 1.
Always keeping us on our toes, Nicola has no time for the humdrum and embraces the unpredictability of life as a recruiter. Utterly trustworthy, she always goes the extra mile. Nicola’s weekends alternate between a gourmet lunch with fine wine and an all-out domestic blitz. No half-measures!
Nicola’s motto in life? “Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.”
As Director of NI I lead out the Northern Ireland division of Savvi Recruitment Consultants and have 15 years’ recruitment experience. Like many in this industry, I fell into recruitment after being made redundant. I used the services of a recruitment agency to help me find a new role, and ended up working for that agency, this speaks volumes about the transformative nature of the industry!
Prior to taking up my new role, I was the Account Director in Savvi Recruitment Consultants for our Process Outsourcing (RPO) division for a prominent global management company. In this role, I managed the Global Talent Acquisition team, and led the strategic talent acquisition initiatives, ensuring the seamless integration of recruitment processes to meet the company's evolving needs on a global scale.
I absolutely love working in recruitment, I am passionate about delivering an exceptional recruitment experience to both candidates and clients alike. I enjoy being part of a successful, growing team and building a solid network of strong relationships across all sectors.
In such a dynamic and competitive industry, keeping client satisfaction as a top priority is key, and my key focus on providing a high-quality service which aligns with industry best practices. With my background supporting a global American Investment Bank on site for 8 years, I have a wealth of experience in navigating complex recruitment processes and understanding the unique needs of my clients.
Chatterbox Angela has a lot to talk about, given her extensive industry background. Away from the hustle and bustle of work, you’re likely to find her pounding the pavements with her two little sprinters in tow.
A lover of nature, Angela’s sense of inner peace comes out in her advice, “Don’t stress the small stuff.”
After 20+ years’ in Financial Services, 18 of which with the same Company, and various roles, I took a career break to focus on Family and wondered would I ever find another forever work home, and then Jennifer came along and provided me with the opportunity to do what I love the most – talk and deliver success!
Having graduated with a B.A. Economics and Philosophy (Hons) from Trinity College Dublin, I have extensive experience across Project and Operations Management in the Fintech & Investment Banking industries.
An experienced corporate Cupid, Rory loves the human contact that comes with a job in recruitment. He’s known as a problem-solver who can be relied upon in any situation! Back at home, Rory loves being out in nature with his young family.
Rory follows his passions, truly believing in the mantra “What’s for you won’t pass you by.”
I come from an academic background, having completed my Ph.D. in History from Trinity College Dublin in 2014. I started working in recruitment after a chance encounter shortly after that and found it a great combination of research, relationship-building and communication, which made it so much more exciting that those long days studying in the archives alone!
I found finance and financial services exciting as sectors because of their complexity and enjoyed understanding products and services at a detailed level, making my engagements with clients and candidates more rewarding.
I still work across finance and fund operations and carry the academic ethos with me to know my areas thoroughly and to act as a sincere advisor to anyone who seeks out advice.
Outside of work I love hill walking, cooking, Irish literature and rugby.
Thoughtful and caring, Lee’s emotional intelligence and keen judgement make him ideally suited to a career in recruitment. At the weekends, he likes to unwind over a nice meal followed by a pint in a good pub.
Lee’s advice to himself and others? “Believing in yourself is 50% of the battle.”
My career started during my time in college where I worked in the hospitality sector in supervisory positions at the weekend while studying. As I progressed into senior management role, I found one of the aspects I really enjoyed was engaging with people and in particular recruiting new hires, ensuring they were the right fit for the company but also got a sense of fulfilment from their role.
As I progressed through Technological University Dublin completing a Bachelor of Business, I found recruitment a source of interest and went to study recruitment practices whilst on Erasmus in Sweden. My final thesis was based on asynchronous recruitment in customer facing roles. Recruitment is a sector I always envisaged myself in and working with Savvi has provided me expert insight into merging my competencies from customer facing roles into financial recruitment.
Multitasker extraordinaire, Lisa loves that her job puts her in contact with a wide range of people on a daily basis. Not one to sit around once her working day is done, she is most likely to be cheering on her children at the local football pitch or swimming lake or blowing off some steam on a run or cycle.
Lisa lives by the motto “Don’t let fear make your decisions for you.”
I lead the operations area within Savvi Recruitment, streamlining processes and managing vendors and third parties. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology with Business and I have over 15 years experience working in Financial services.
Prior to my time in Savvi Recruitment, I worked as the Documentation Operations, Change and Service Delivery manager for the Irish branch of Liberty Insurance. I've a strong eye for optimising business processes and in my career to date I've delivered projects that have helped streamline operations, enhance productivity and achieve substantial cost savings. I have a genuine passion for helping people both within the work environment and outside it.
In my spare time I love spending time with my family, taking a dip in our local lake or going for a run or cycle with friends.