OUR
RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN SLOVAKIA &
CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
Our
the first recruitment in the Central and
Eastern Europe region was in 2001, with
the placement of a Sales Manager for a
leading Danish industrial company. Since
that time, we have recruited across this
vast and diverse region many outstanding
General Managers, Sales Managers, Finance
Managers, Supply Chain Managers, Factory
Managers, Human Resources Managers and
other talented managers, in dozens of
industrial and service sectors.
Our focus in
Slovakia and in the CEE Region:
Experienced, internationally trained Local
and Expatriate Senior Managers to run CEE
regional or single-country business units of
major international companies that are based
outside of the region.
In the Central and Eastern
Europe region we recruit Senior Managers
for mostly European,
North American, and Asian companies
where the goal is to increase local
market share or to increase the
efficiency of the business unit.
Often the best solution is to
recruit local bilingual or
multilingual managers who have strong
track records of success in the markets
of the CEE region. Most of
these candidates have been trained at
major global companies.
A significant percentage of
our CEE candidates have been educated in
Western European or North American
universities, making them
knowledgeable cultural bridges
between national and regional corporate
business cultures. Because ART is a
global executive search firm, if needed,
we can supplement a local national
search with national candidates who
might now be based in Western Europe,
North America, or other world locations.
While we try to focus
on local candidates whenever available, we
also recruit foreign managers, often fluent
in the business language(s) of the country,
who have strong track records of management
in the target location.
Our emphasis is to find
managers who perform well in accordance
with the business ethics and business
style of the foreign company. The
objective is to find a leader whom the
foreign company can trust to run their
business, while effectively reaching local
customers, suppliers, and employees
in a way that they will find comforting.
Whenever
possible, we seek candidates who have
worked at their best in similar
roles at foreign firms, often at our
client's direct competitors or
near-competitors. Familiarity with the
target industry or market sector usually
means faster success and greater
organizational effectiveness.
We take
particular care to try to find people
who are accustomed to working in a
business model that resembles that of
the client company. A person who works
well at a top CEE or even large blue
chip firm, for example, might not be the
right person as employee #1 at a
medium-sized foreign firm's greenfield
business unit in the CEE.
Typical
ART Recruitment Profiles
General
Management:
Chief
Executive Officer (CEO), Chief
Operating Officer (COO), President,
Managing Director, General Manager,
Vice President,...
Sales
& Marketing
Management:
VP
Sales and Marketing, Sales Director,
Sales Manager, Commercial Director,
Marketing Director, Regional Sales
Manager,...
Finance
Management:
Chief
Financial Officer (CFO), Finance
Director, Finance Controller,
Finance Manager,...
Manufacturing
& Operations:
Chief
Operating Officer (COO), VP
Operations, VP Manufacturing, Plant
Manager, Factory Manager,...
Supply
Chain Management:
VP Supply Chain, Supply Chain
Director, Logistics Director,
Procurement Director, Sourcing
Director, Materials Director,...
Information
Technology:
CIO's,
CTO's, VP's and Directors
R&D
and Engineering:
CTO's, VP's and Directors
CHRO, VP Human Resources,
Director of Human Resources, Human
Resources Manager, Chief Legal Counsel,
Lawyer,...
ART IN THE
EUROPEAN AND WORLD PRESS
To learn
more about ART's approach to senior
management executive search, you may
read online interviews with ART
management, appearing in some of the
most respected publications in the
fields of business, technology and
finance: click
here.
ART
RECRUITMENT IN EUROPE
- Examples
of Past or Present Job
Searches across Europe: Here
- Examples
of Past or Present Job Searches in
the Central and Eastern Europe
Region: Here
