In their efforts to further expand into the Korean market with emphasis on the telecommunications arena, this world leading management consulting and technology services firm needed to recruit a top executive to lead the business forward. After speaking with several industry leaders, we were recommended as the company to best help them in their quest of penetrating a challenging market.

They needed a professional with deep knowledge of Telecom infrastructure services process, operations and financials as well as experience in growing professional services/ business in the telecom market space.

The challenge was to find the telecom experience as well as professional services experience who had the contacts to penetrate this market. We successfully recruited a top candidate out of the Korean telecom industry.

The client is a global financial services organization and one of the top life insurers worldwide offering life insurance and savings products with offices in Asia, Europe and the Americas. After a complete re-engineering of the company, they needed to hire a VP Marketing for EMEA.

The role holder had to determine what products and services should be developed to meet the consumer needs and how to communicate these products and services in a way that is clearly understood by the client. They must also communicate how this will impact their competitiveness, their product and service development as well as the company’s overall marketing strategy.

We needed to find someone that was well versed in the EMEA market with a good marketing discipline in the services (airlines, retail, leisure) industry. The environment was quite collegial so they needed to be influencing and forceful with persuasive skills in order to steer the team in the right direction.

We short-listed four candidates, all coming from direct competitors and within two months the position was filled.

The client is a global pharmaceutical drug research company who develops and produces innovative medicines for immunology and mental health. The company has about 2300 people working in R&D.

The candidate would work as part of the Lead Discovery Unit comprising a team of scientist pursuing innovative research to discover new medicines. The candidate had to come from the biopharmaceutical industry with a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and experience in ion channel research.

We conducted a search specifically targeting these areas. We short-listed five candidates out of which a successful appointment was made. The client was impressed by our methodology and specific industry knowledge we brought to the table which led to us being nominated for several other projects for them.

In their efforts to expand into new markets this high profile retailer hired us to recruit and build a team of executives to lead the business forward. They were new to this area and had no contacts. After speaking with several industry leaders, we were recommended as the company to best help them in their quest of penetrating a challenging market.

The client was under a lot of pressure to succeed in this market because a major competitor had beaten them to the punch. They also had a particular company culture that they wanted to preserve in order to become successful.

Over the next several months, we successfully recruited a Chief Financial Officer, Marketing Director, Chief Technology Officer, Operations Director and Director of Human Resources.

Our knowledge and experience in the marketplace as well as understanding our clients’ needs and culture enabled us to quickly identify the right candidates for the position.

This multinational semiconductor maker provides standard integrated circuits (Ics) and custom-designed application-specific Ics (ASICs), focusing on broadband and wireless communications, consumer electronics, and data networking markets.

The ideal candidate had to have been in a similar position with good team management and mentoring skills in order to coordinate team efforts to provide a superior product in a highly competitive environment. It was necessary for this candidate to plan and direct the work of a highly skilled engineering staff, placing particular emphasis on research and development in order to achieve the product engineering objectives. This was a challenging position because the candidate had to be able to interface regularly with the western marketing and management team and coordinate his staff for the Asian markets.

We conducted a search specifically targeting these areas and short-listed four very qualified candidates out of which a successful appointment was made. The client was impressed by our methodology and specific industry knowledge we brought to the table which led to us being nominated for several other projects for them.

The client is a global leader in telecom equipment and manufactures products used to build communications network infrastructure. The company needed to hire a Technology Director who would be responsible for leading an engineering team in the development of complex solutions incorporating multiple technologies.

We had to find a professional with expert knowledge in the telecommunications arena and proficient in both English and Japanese. Not only did the candidate need to have the necessary skills but also had to be ‘westernized enough’ to work for a multinational company but at the same time be ‘Japanese enough’ to be effective in his job locally.

The candidate selected came from one of the top Japanese Conglomerates with an MBA from MIT.

Our knowledge and experience in the marketplace as well as understanding our client’s needs and culture enabled us to quickly identify the right candidate for the position.

In an effort to reduce costs, this major telecommunications company wanted to set up a global Financial Shared Services environment with three regional offices; one each in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. This would involve approximately 3000 staff reporting into the V.P. The ideal candidate would have to have strong negotiation ability, in-depth knowledge of the financial industry as well as a persuasive personality in order to get buy in from heads of the various business units. He/she would also have to have previous hands-on experience in setting up a large global financial shared service environment.

This was a tremendous opportunity for the right person and a challenging search for us. We researched which companies had already set up such shared services environments. This was a relatively new concept, so not only were there few companies to choose from but to find companies who had done this on a global scale had made the list even shorter. Within six weeks we had a short list of five qualified candidates. Two candidates came from the pharmaceutical industry, one from a global software developer, one from a major office equipment manufacturer and one from a management consultancy.

The client chose one of the candidates with the pharmaceutical industry background and is proceeding forward with establishing a global financial shared services environment worldwide.