Oxwana partners with organisations across Africa to solve specialist recruitment, RPO, executive search and workforce challenges, from first brief to final placement.
Sectors served
Our Positioning
Most recruitment firms fill roles. Oxwana fixes the workforce problem behind them.
How we think
We work in the industries we know. Deep sector knowledge means faster sourcing, better candidate assessment, and fewer surprises.
We interrogate the brief before we start. Understanding the business problem behind the hire changes the outcome.
We do not hand off to a junior delivery team. The same expertise that shapes your solution delivers it.
What We Do
We run your recruitment.
Permanent, contract and future hiring, joined up.
We employ the people, you manage the work.
Fixing the root cause.
Senior expertise, flexibly delivered.
Hiring where mistakes are expensive.
Our Process
Every engagement starts with the same question: what does success actually look like? We interrogate the business context, the constraints, the history of the problem and the real criteria for the right outcome. Whether the assignment is an executive search, a workforce programme or an advisory mandate, the brief we accept is always more precise than the one we received.
Before any outreach begins, we build a clear picture of the available landscape. For search assignments, that means mapping the talent pool. For workforce programmes, it means understanding supply, cost and mobilisation realities. For advisory work, it means benchmarking your organisation against comparable operations. We do not move until we know what we are working with.
Whether the mandate is executive search, project hiring or an embedded engagement, we approach the market directly and with purpose. No automated outreach. No junior calls.
Every candidate or recommendation presented has been assessed against the actual brief. For search, that means technical, cultural and commercial evaluation. For workforce programmes, that means pre-qualification against role, location and compliance requirements. You receive a shortlist with a rationale, not a stack of CVs.
On search, that means managing offer through to start date. On RPO, it means mobilisation confirmed and in-seat. On advisory, it means implementation support, not just a recommendations document. The engagement does not close until the work is done.
Where We Work
Upstream oil & gas, LNG, solar, wind and the energy transition workforce across Africa.
Petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and process manufacturing. From plant operators to technical directors.
Large-scale commercial agriculture, food processing and agri-infrastructure across sub-Saharan Africa.
Commercial banks, development finance institutions and financial services operating across African markets.
Data centres, telecoms, digital infrastructure and technology-enabled services across Africa.
FAQ
About Oxwana
Oxwana is built on over 24 years of hands-on experience across RPO, executive search, in-house talent acquisition and global recruitment operations. The business has worked at board and C-suite level across multiple sectors and geographies, delivering multi-year RPO contracts across Africa and globally.
Oxwana was built because the market needed a firm that combines the strategic depth of a consultancy with the delivery capability of an operator, without the overhead of a global firm.
You're working with someone who has sat on both sides of the table, as a supplier, an operator, and a client.
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Operations
Operating across Africa.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom.
"Recruitment is the outcome. Understanding your business is where we start."