About Fletcher Chase

Built on Real World People Experience

Fletcher Chase was founded by Richard Snowden, a CIPD-qualified HR and recruitment professional with over a decade of experience building and scaling talent functions inside some of Ireland’s most ambitious companies.

Richard is one of the few people in Ireland to have scaled talent for two Irish unicorn companies, Flipdish (Series A to Series C, $1.25bn valuation) and eShopWorld ($1bn valuation), driving over 100 hires across Technology, Finance, Marketing, HR, and C-suite.

That in-house experience is at the heart of how Fletcher Chase works. We’ve sat where our clients sit. We understand the pressure to hire fast without compromising quality, to balance workforce planning with commercial realities, and to build teams that actually stick.

Fletcher Chase was built to offer something different: a recruitment and HR partner that combines senior-level expertise with a personal, partnership-led approach that genuinely cares about the outcomes it creates for clients and candidates alike.

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Decades of Experience

Recruitment, HR, and Everything in Between

Recruitment

We help businesses attract and secure exceptional candidates across a wide range of industries and seniority levels. From specialist individual contributors to leadership and executive appointments, every search is handled with rigour and care.

Our process is built to reduce time-to-hire without cutting corners: role scoping, market mapping, targeted outreach, structured screening, and a shortlist you can be confident in.

We focus on building matches that last not just filling vacancies quickly.

Workforce Planning

Effective hiring starts long before you post a job. We work with businesses to define the structure, roles, and capabilities they need to hit their growth targets whether they’re scaling rapidly, restructuring, or planning their next phase.

Our approach helps reduce costly hiring mistakes, improve planning accuracy, and ensure your talent strategy is always aligned with where the business is going.

Market Intelligence

Make confident hiring decisions backed by real data. We provide insight into talent availability, salary benchmarks, competitor hiring activity, and time-to-hire trends within your market and sector.

This intelligence helps you position roles competitively, attract the right candidates, and avoid the pitfalls of going to market under-prepared.

Executive Search

Senior and business-critical hires demand a different level of care. Our executive search process is discreet, research-driven, and tailored, giving you access to both active and passive talent pools.

We manage the entire process: market mapping, candidate approach, assessment, and shortlist presentation. Every candidate is evaluated on experience, leadership capability, cultural alignment, and long-term potential.

HR Consultancy

Whether you need a full HR framework built from scratch or support with a specific challenge, we bring in-house HR expertise without the overhead of a permanent hire.

Our services include HR policy creation, employee handbook development, HRIS selection and implementation, GDPR-compliant processes, DEI programme design, and employee relations support.

We’ve built HR infrastructure inside unicorn-stage companies, we know what good looks like and how to get there efficiently.

People & Culture Advisory

Strong cultures don’t build themselves. We support businesses in creating environments where people genuinely want to work. Improving engagement, reducing attrition, and strengthening your employer brand.

From onboarding design to performance frameworks and manager capability building, we help you invest in the foundations that make great hiring stick.

The Team

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. Fletcher Chase is no different

Richard Snowden

Founder

Richard Snowden is the founder of Fletcher Chase and a CIPD-qualified HR and recruitment professional with over 14 years of experience across agency recruitment, in-house talent leadership, and strategic HR.
He is one of a small number of practitioners in Ireland to have built and led talent functions inside two Irish unicorn companies at critical growth stages — Flipdish and eShopWorld — driving over 100 hires across all business functions and implementing HR infrastructure including Greenhouse, Lattice, and GDPR-compliant frameworks.
Before founding Fletcher Chase, Richard held senior roles at Paddy Power, UnitedHealth Group, and Citi, and holds a Master's in Human Resource Management from the National College of Ireland.
He is also founder of Hiring Zen, a platform designed to make high-quality talent acquisition more accessible to growing businesses.

CREDENTIALS BADGES / TAGS
– CIPD Qualified
— MA Human Resource Management
– 2× Irish Unicorn Talent Builder (Flipdish | eShopWorld)
– Certified in Generative AI for HR
– Certified in Change Management Foundations
– 14+ Years in Recruitment & HR

Seamus McLoughlin

Talent Director

Currently Building out the Hiring Zen capability

Hiring Zen Team

Recruitment On Demand

For more visit www.hiringzen.com

We want to hear from you

Whether you’re looking to fill a critical role, explore a talent strategy review, or just want to understand what’s possible, we’re happy to have an informal conversation at no cost.