About Cobalt
See why we've been the most trusted recruitment partner to the built environment since 2001.
The market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.
The market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.
We work with real estate investors - REITs, funds, private equity, and investment banks. We partner with property companies, landed estates, and developers. We advise those in real estate advisory, corporate occupiers, management and maintenance organisations, main contractors, and local authorities, all across the UK. And they like working with us, too, with 90% of businesses we’ve worked with choosing to work with us on repeat mandates, including some of the very best names in the sectors.
Who we work with
Who we work with
Our heritage and global presence
Our heritage and global presence
Cobalt Recruitment is where The Cobalt Group, our network of specialist real estate and renewables recruitment businesses worldwide, began. As our flagship business, Cobalt has continued to specialise and further develop its reputation across these same core sectors that we originally started within, partnering with local clients across the world to become the trusted partner of choice within the UK, Germany, and the US.
And we’ve won a lot of awards on the way - being recognised for our recruitment services by APSCo (the Association Of Professional Staffing Companies), making it into the Times Top 100 companies repeatedly over the past decade, and proudly being named an ‘Outstanding’ workplace in recent Best Companies’ awards.
- 2001 - Cobalt Recruitment is founded in London in 2001 by Timothy Rowe and Adam Walker, focused on general practice real estate recruitment.
- 2002-2003 - Cobalt expands into construction recruitment and finance recruitment for the real estate sector.
- 2003 - Maria Sinclair, now Managing Director - UK, joins Cobalt.
- 2003 - Cobalt establishes its Manchester office.
- 2008 - Cobalt launches in Berlin, Germany through Richard-Emanuel Goldhahn and Doreen von Bodecker, both now Managing Directors - Germany.
- 2009-2017 - Cobalt expands across 5 more sites in Germany, and various sites worldwide including Singapore, New Zealand and the UAE.
- 2014 - Tom Enefer, now Director, Real Estate & Capital Markets, joins Cobalt.
- 2014 - Chris Sycamore, now Associate Director, Facilities Management, joins Cobalt.
- 2015 - Stephen Shorter, now Group CEO, joins Cobalt.
- 2015-2019 - Cobalt win various awards from APSCo, The Times Top 100 list and other industry publications.
- 2019 - Cobalt launches in New York, USA.
- 2022 - Cobalt moves its London HQ to Chandos Street in the West End.
- 2023 - Cobalt ranks as an 'Outstanding' place to work in the Best Companies awards.
- 2023 - Comanos, renewable recruitment specialists, join the Cobalt Group.
What we can offer the sector
What we can offer the sector
A team of specialist, experienced recruitment, executive search and HR advisors, capable of recruitment for those necessary, quick-to-fill roles, through to full-scale partnerships as part of your talent acquisition team. We offer bespoke salary guides, market mapping exercises, consultation around your employee attraction and retention (EVP), interview and onboarding processes, and much, much more. We have the largest database of built environment professionals worldwide – and beyond that, we partner with market-leading job boards and use the most innovative technologies to find only the best in the business, so you only get the best for your business.
Meet some of
our specialist team
Meet some of
our specialist team
Stephen Shorter
Maria Sinclair
Jonathan Page
Tom Enefer
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion.
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion.
DE&I done right unlocks real business value. By embracing diversity, you can access a broader talent pool, improving the calibre of employee you can attract and retain. Our consultants are trained in inclusive hiring processes, and we deliver a unique annual diversity report across our industries. Through our ‘Cobalt Conversations’ events, we drive DE&I initiatives that create lasting impact for clients and candidates. Discover how we can help your business thrive with DE&I solutions that deliver results.
Our commitments beyond
recruitment
Our commitments beyond
recruitment
Like so many of the organisations we work with and represent, we care about our communities. We participate in a reverse mentoring scheme run by Real Estate Balance to nurture the next generation of real estate leaders, we give to industry-specific programmes like LandAid, and we run interview workshops and CV clinics at local schools.
We’ve also made industry-first environmental commitments, to help create a greener real estate, property and construction industry.
So, if you’re looking for a specialist real estate, property and construction recruitment agency, capable of recruiting and consulting across the built environment, that’s experienced, award-winning, and is the trusted partner of choice across all its geographies, get in touch with us today.
