OUR
RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN
SWITZERLAND -
FRANCE - BELGIUM
Typical
ART Search Scenarios
French,
Belgian and Swiss
Managers for Foreign
Companies to run
Francophone, European,
or EMEA business units
Foreign
Managers in Europe,
Asia, North America,
Latin America, Africa
and the Middle East
for French, Belgian
and
Swiss companies - especially
fast-growing medium sized
firms that need low-risk,
experienced, and
trustworthy local
managers with the
highest standards of
global business
ethics and trust to build
international business
units
Local
French-speaking
"Change Management"
Senior Managers who
can update, modernize
or internationalize
French,
Belgian, or Swiss
firms' style of
business, particularly
with a focus on expanding
beyond
francophone or home
markets, making the
most of business
opportunities across
Europe and worldwide while
preserving the best
characteristics of the
company.
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
Human
Resources &
Legal:
CHRO,
VP Human Resources,
Director of Human
Resources, Human
Resources Manager, Chief
Legal Counsel,
Lawyer,...
FURTHER
DETAILS
Local
managers for foreign
companies, where the
goal is to increase
local market share
with bilingual
French-English or
multilingual
managers who have
strong track records
of success in the
national markets
of France,
Switzerland, and Belgium,
or in the European
or EMEA market as a
unity.
- Our
emphasis in this kind
of search is to find
managers who perform
well
in accordance with the
business
culture of the
foreign company. In
addition to being
fluent in
French and
English, ART has
candidates in certain
industry sectors who
are fluent in other
European, Asian and
Mideast languages,
allowing for stronger
communications between
HQ and the local
market.
- Whenever
possible, for this
kind of search we seek
candidates who have
worked at their best
in this role at
foreign firms. 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, large
French firm, for
example, might not be
the right person as
employee #1 at a
medium-sized foreign
firm's greenfield
business unit in
France.
- Our
objective in this
search is to find
candidates who are
sensitive to both the
business culture of
the home company and
to that of the local
French, Swiss or Belgian customers.
The objective is to
find a leader whom the
foreign company can
trust to run their
business, while
effectively reaching
local customers in a
way that they will
find comforting.
- Searches
might be at the
national level,
Francophone European level,
pan-European level, or
EMEA level. As
ART is frequently
asked by our client
companies to
identify EMEA
Managing Directors
or pan-Europe Sales
Directors who are
based in
France, Belgium, or
Switzerland,
candidates with
additional fluency
in multiple European
languages are
especially of
interest to us.
Foreign
managers,
some fluent in
French as well as
English and the local
language, who can be
entrusted to manage
French, Swiss or Belgian business
units in Europe, Asia,
Latin America, North
America, Africa or the
Middle East
- When
expanding overseas,
many
French, Swiss, or Belgian firms - especially medium sized firms -
do not know where to
find local managers
who have a high
enough standard of
training to properly
manage their
business. ART
candidates in other
countries, some
trained in Europe,
have been tested as
managers at leading
world companies, and
they could be the
best way for French,
Swiss, or Belgian
companies to expand
abroad.
- ART's
approach to executive
search is to avoid
risks whenever
possible and to find
candidates who bring
the best long term
benefits to the client
company.
- Unlike
most recruitment firms
based in
France, Switzerland, or Belgium,
which have to depend
upon outsourced
recruiters and unclear
partnerships with
foreign recruiters for
overseas searches, ART
does 100% of all our
own recruitment. We
recruit directly in
over 100 countries,
and we never use any
other recruitment
company to find our
candidates. In this
way, we are able to
deliver excellent
candidates with the
same level of
efficiency and quality
of service that is
expected in our
clients' home
countries.
- We also
recruit French,
Swiss, or Belgian
managers outside of
the
francophone European region.
Most of these
managers have strong
business experiences
in the target area,
language and market.
Because many of
these managers have
effectively
localized, they
often do not require
expatriate benefits.
Fast-paced,
internationally
oriented
French-speaking
managers for French,
Swiss or Belgian firms
that need to change
their management style
to reflect a more
outward, pan-European
or global management
style, in order to
compete more
effectively globally
- Very
large
French, Swiss or Belgian corporations,
medium sized public
corporations, as well
as
traditional medium
sized privately-owned
firms, that
might need to
find
a change-agent
senior manager to help
their long range
business growth plans.
- Many
of these firms have
been in continuous
operation for over 100
years, often under the
leadership of a single
family. So much of the
firm's historic
successes have been
due to the dedication
of family managers to
product excellence,
and often these
businesses' successes
are due to working
with the best,
brightest and hardest
working people in
their local
communities. The
success of these
businesses and the
excellence of their
products should serve
as models for larger
world companies!
The
challenge today is
that in a globalized
world economy, how can
such firms adjust to
take advantage of
larger world business
opportunities without
sacrificing models
that have worked best
for them? At ART we
are familiar with such
growth challenges and
we try to find
trustworthy and
competent managers who
can build bridges to
the future for these
great firms, so that
they can be even
greater firms!
ART
EXECUTIVE SEARCHES IN
THIS MARKET
To
see representative
examples of past or
current recruitment
searches
in which respected,
leading employers have
asked ART to conduct its
executive search work: click
here.
ART
IN THE
EUROPEAN PRESS
To
learn more about ART's
approach to senior
management executive
search in your country and
beyond, 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.
|