• 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.

 

• C‑suite: CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO

• General Management: Country Manager, Managing Director, President

• Commercial Leadership: VP Sales, Sales Director, Business Development

• Finance Management: CFO, VP Finance, Controller, Planning & Analysis, M&A
  

• Operations & Manufacturing: VP Operations, Plant Manager, Facilities Director
  

• Supply Chain & Procurement: Logistics Directors, S&OP Leaders

• Technology: CTO, VP Engineering, R&D Director, Technical Director

• Information Technology: CIO, CISO, VP IT, Director Data Center

• Corporate Functions: CHRO, HR Director, HR Manager, Legal & Compliance Leaders

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!