ContingentRecruitment
Pay-on-placement recruitment for fast, flexible hiring.
Permanent, contract and project-based talent solutions for enterprise cloud transformation.
Focus Cloud Group delivers specialist cloud staffing and recruitment solutions across EMEA, North America and beyond.
As specialist talent partners across leading enterprise cloud platforms, we help organisations hire permanent employees, contract consultants and project teams across HCM, ERP, CRM, Finance, Analytics and AI.
From individual specialists to large-scale hiring programmes, we deliver the talent organisations need to keep transformation moving.
Trusted by Cloud-Driven Businesses
Finding the right cloud talent starts with understanding your business, your programme goals and the expertise needed to deliver them. We take a consultative approach to every search, helping you define requirements before identifying the right people.
Whether you're hiring a single specialist or building an entire delivery team, we provide a structured recruitment process designed to reduce risk and improve hiring outcomes across ERP, HCM, payroll, CRM, analytics, infrastructure, AI and more.
Key Benefits
Consultative hiring approach
Talent mapping & market insight
Faster time-to-hire
Structured onboarding support
How We
Deliver
Choose the engagement model that best fits your hiring strategy, project requirements and business goals.
Pay-on-placement recruitment for fast, flexible hiring.
Dedicated search for business-critical and leadership appointments.
Outcome-based delivery with clearly defined scope, milestones and accountability.
A tailored combination of permanent, contract and Statement of Work delivery.
Our Core Values
WE ARE
CONNECTED
We build lasting relationships across our teams, our clients and the specialist cloud communities we serve.
WE ARE
CREATIVE
We challenge convention, solve problems differently and look for smarter ways to deliver better outcomes.
WE ARE
EXPERTS
We're specialists by design. Every team lives and breathes its technology, giving you genuine market expertise.
"From the initial call, the speed and professionalism in finding our requirements and lining up consultants was amazing."
Adrian Robinson
Payroll Consultant
"3/4 of the team came from Focus, so I think that in itself is testament to how great you were to work with."
Alexis Baker
Head of People Analytics
"Highly responsive. Found the exact match extremely fast. Really understood the requirement."
Grant Sheer
Head of Enterprise Architecture
"There was flexibility and willingness to listen to our needs, and put them into action, adjusting themselves to suit the plan going forward."
Hayley Hockley
Workday Project Director
"We can all appreciate the Microsoft space is moving super quickly... the guys at Cognitive really understand the technology set."
Jason Campbell
Programme Director
"Typically our time to hire would be 3-6 months, but working with Cognitive we were able to get that down to 2-4 weeks... they really took the time to understand us."
Jay Neale
Chief Executive Officer
"Cognitive have been really good at going out and finding candidates that fit; even more than we expected."
Julie Amos
Chief Operating Officer
"The quality of profiles we were provided with was confirmed by all the offers we presented to the candidates put forward by Focus Cloud"
Karolina Cielniaszek
Talent Acqusition Specialist
"A breath of fresh air... seamless, professional, and detail-orientated"
Kimberly Wood
Workday HCM/Pay Portfolio Manager
"Thank you for making it such a great experience, I'm really happy and I will definitely work with you again."
Martina Adamson
Lead D365 Finance Functional Consultant
"Focus Cloud Group provides insightful market intelligence and demonstrates deep expertise in their domain."
Natalya Melnichenko
Senior M365 & PP Solution Architect
"Focus Cloud were instrumental in helping us find the right person."
Neil Claypole
Director Global HR Data Governance, Reporting & Analytics
"They understood our needs and found good potential candidates. There was precise communication & good follow-up."
Rajesh Avinjikatmanakkal
SAP Commerce Cloud - Business Analyst
"I could honestly say that I'm not sure our project would be as successful as it is today without Focus Cloud supporting us."
Sabrina Holgate
Chief Program Officer
"The fact that I've been talking to them for 5 or 6 years says that im happy to keep in touch, and there's no pressure from them - good contracts come out of that."
Steve Cook
D365 Finance and Integration Test Lead
"Cognitive has been an excellent partner for our tech hiring. Overall, they are high-performing recruiters, who clearly have a bright trajectory ahead of them. I highly recommend them."
Zoe Sprangers
Senior Talent Acquisition Manager
Trusted by Leading Global Businesses
Our Global Coverage
Local market expertise. Global cloud recruitment capability.
The experts leading our specialist talent practice, supported by dedicated recruitment teams connecting organisations with exceptional cloud technology professionals.