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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.
