Built for one market, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vanguard Search Partners is a renewable energy executive search firm active in Germany and the United States, focused exclusively on Distributed Generation and Utility-scale renewable energy.
A boutique consultancy, not a volume recruiter.
Vanguard Search Partners is a boutique executive search and market intelligence consultancy, consistently driving the growth of teams in renewable energy. We enable clients to make critical hiring decisions based on data, not instinct. Our work combines deep market insight with a structured, data-led search process to secure high-conviction hires and support long-term growth and accelerate our clients' strategic objectives.
We build trusted, long-term tailored partnerships through consulting and a commitment to understanding our clients' and candidates' unique needs and goals. We partner with Developers, IPPs, and emerging platforms — and the Private Equity, Credit, VC, Infrastructure Funds and Asset Managers that back them — working end to end across finance, commercial, development, construction, engineering, project management, legal and leadership.
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Partner-led search, from start to finish.
Founded and led by Jake Lorenzi, Vanguard Search Partners is built around a senior, research-led team. The person who takes your brief runs your research, makes the approaches, and sits across every interview.
No leverage model, no volume hiring. Every search is run to the same high-standard, whoever on the team is driving it — a slower way to build a search firm and a better way to run a search.
Precision
Focused shortlists, not volume. Every candidate is interviewed in depth, referenced, and benchmarked before you meet them — so the decision is between strong options, not among noise.
Context
We are in this market between searches, not just during them. Compensation, team structures and candidate motivations come from live conversations — current, not recycled.
Partner-led delivery
The senior person you brief is the person who delivers — through research, approaches, interviews, offer and onboarding. Accountability never changes hands.
Fill success rate on retained search
Retention of retained-search placements after 18 months
Repeat business from existing clients
Fill success rate across all mandates
Of searches delivered ahead of timeline
Work with the people who know this market.
Building a team, or considering your own next chapter — either way, the first conversation is with a partner.