Typical ART Search Scenarios

Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian & Baltic Managers for Foreign Companies to run National, Nordic, European, or EMEA business units

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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

FURTHER DETAILS

  Local managers for foreign companies, where the goal is to increase local market share with bilingual or multilingual managers who have strong track records of success in the national markets of Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, 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 their native language (Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian) 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. Scandinavian candidates who are truly fluent in more than one Nordic language are especially valued.

 

• 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 Swedish firm, for example, might not be the right person as employee #1 at a medium-sized foreign greenfield business unit in Sweden.

 

• 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 Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, or Norwegian 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, Nordic level, pan-European level, or EMEA level.

 

 

Fast-paced, internationally oriented Icelandic-, Swedish-, Danish-, Finnish-, or Norwegian-speaking managers for Nordic 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 Nordic corporations, medium sized public corporations, as well as traditional medium sized privately-owned Nordic firms, that might need to find a change-agent senior manager to help their long range business growth plans.

 

 

Foreign managers, some fluent in Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, or Norwegian as well as English and the local language, who can be trusted to manage Icelandic-, Swedish-, Danish-, Finnish-, or Norwegian-owned business units in Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa or the Middle East

• When expanding overseas, many Nordic 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 Nordic 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 Iceland, Scandinavia or Finland, 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 Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, or Norwegian managers outside of the Nordic 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. 

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.