Marc Kent

Commercial Director

With nearly two decades in recruitment, I’ve learned so much and feel incredibly grateful for what the industry has given me. My experience over that time has been invaluable, particularly having started my career before many of the technology developments now reshaping the industry.

That grounding has helped shape the type of recruiter I am at heart: good process, excellent service, adding value, sales development and building strong, long-term relationships.

Over the years, I’ve grown and led recruitment teams, opened new offices, developed strategic client relationships and worked in both operational and commercial roles. I’ve helped steer the business through challenging and exciting times, including the pandemic and the strong bounce-back that followed in 2022/23 and Today I’m proud to help shape the future of The ONE Group as Commercial Director and Board Member.

Recruitment is an incredibly rewarding industry and I genuinely enjoy being part of it. I love getting close to organisations, understanding their challenges and helping solve problems beyond simply filling vacancies. The pace of change, particularly around AI and technology, is fascinating and offers huge potential for us all to improve.

I’ve worked across numerous sectors, industries and regions, supporting fascinating companies that all share the ambition of hiring the best talent available.

I firmly believe in adding value and have helped shape our ‘Beyond Recruitment’ offering and as part of this, you’ll find me hosting roundtables, panel discussions and speaking at events that bring employers together into a community.

I’m also proud to have helped raise over £170,000 for our charity partner, Magpas, including hosting our annual golf day, competing in half marathons, completing the Three Peaks (twice!) and coordinating various other fundraising activities.

At The Weekend You Will Find Me

Away from recruitment, I live in Stamford with my wife and our two children, Arabella and Harrison. As a parent of two young children, I’m both excited and curious about what the future job market will look like and what career paths they might step into one day. Heartbreaking to see how quickly they are growing up but incredible to see them develop. I love sport, particularly football and golf. I have a strong interest in health, fitness and the outdoors. I enjoy challenging myself and recently slept wild in beautiful Scotland for 3 nights and canoed 40km. I’m typically an early riser, so you’ll often find me exercising while most people are still in bed. I love spending time with the family, getting involved with the kids sporting activities / interests, watching sport and playing golf whenever I get the chance! For me, recruitment has been much more than a career. Many of the relationships I’ve built over the years have become genuine friendships, with contacts becoming people I socialise with and enjoy spending time with.

Marc Kent

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
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 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
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Engineering & Manufacturing
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Scientific
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Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
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Executive Search
Across all of the above
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Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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