Director hiring tools
What does the wrong Director cost you?
Salary is the smallest number in a bad senior hire. Put your own figures into this free calculator and see the real cost, line by line.
Read by around 7,000 people across UK construction every Monday.
The worked example
5x+
The base salary, in total cost
£375k
Margin lost while the role underperforms or sits empty
£60k
Both recruitment fees combined
Worked example: an Operations Director on £120k leading £60m of work a year.
What's inside
- The package paid for little return, recruitment twice, exit costs and interim cover.
- The cost most boards forget: margin lost on the work the role leads.
- Every assumption editable and explained, so you can run it with your own numbers.
Most of the cost of a wrong hire is margin, not fees.
From the calculator's worked example
Who it's for
If you run the business
Put a real number on a risk most boards guess at, before you sign off the next senior hire.
If you lead HR or talent
Build the case for doing the next Director search properly, with figures your board will recognise.
From a Commercial Director who recruits
I'm Scott Lechley. I trained as a Quantity Surveyor, started out at Sir Robert McAlpine, and now run Lechley Associates, a retained executive search firm for senior commercial and operational leaders across UK construction and infrastructure.
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