Recruitment & Talent Advisory
Secure the leaders who will carry your business forward.
We recruit from middle management to the C-suite for organisations across Africa, combining retained executive search, targeted recruitment and talent intelligence. From the first briefing to your new leader's first months in role, we work as an extension of your team, so that every appointment strengthens the business for years to come.
Our approach
Responsibility for every appointment, from brief to impact.
Every senior appointment carries consequences for strategy, culture and results. That is why each mandate begins with understanding your business: its ambitions, its challenges and the leadership it will need to grow. We then search the full market, assess candidates against what success will genuinely require, and stay close to you and your new hire well beyond the start date.
What we offer
Executive Search
When a role will shape the direction of your business, you need more than a list of available names. Our retained search for board, C-suite and senior leadership roles begins with a success profile agreed with you and your stakeholders. A dedicated consultant then leads the assignment personally, from the first briefing to the day your new leader takes office, and keeps you informed at every stage.
Mid-Level Recruitment
Functional heads, managers and specialists are the people who turn strategy into results. We reach them through targeted search and a professional network built over many years in our markets, and we screen every candidate rigorously before you meet them. You spend your time with fewer, stronger candidates, and your teams gain people ready to contribute from the outset.
Talent Intelligence
Sound hiring decisions start with a clear view of the market. We build talent maps, competitor organisation charts and analyses of talent availability and pay for a single role, a function or an entire market. Leadership teams use this insight to plan a hire, test a succession plan or benchmark their teams against competitors.
Talent Market Research
Entering a new market or scaling an existing operation raises practical questions: where the skills are, what they cost and how difficult they will be to attract and retain. Our research answers those questions across African, diaspora and expatriate talent pools, giving you a sound basis for market entry, expansion and workforce planning.
International talent
Expatriate Recruitment & Mobilisation
We help organisations attract, appoint and mobilise international talent through an integrated approach that combines executive recruitment, immigration coordination and seamless onboarding.
International Talent Acquisition
Identification, assessment and placement of expatriate executives, technical specialists and business-critical talent across international markets.
Immigration & Regulatory Coordination
End-to-end coordination of Expatriate Quota, work visa, residence permit and regulatory documentation through qualified immigration partners.
Expatriate Mobilisation & Integration
Coordination of employment offers, relocation logistics, pre-arrival arrangements and onboarding to support a smooth transition into the organisation.
Who we recruit
Levels
- C-suite and board
- Directors, heads of function and general managers
- Middle managers
- Senior specialists
Sectors
- FMCG & Consumer Goods
- Manufacturing
- Agribusiness
- Financial Services
- Energy
- Technology
- Maritime & Shipping
How a search works
Brief and success profile
We meet the hiring leader and key stakeholders to agree what success looks like at 12 months, the experience that matters and the deal-breakers.
Market mapping
We research the full candidate pool, not only who is looking but who is performing well where they are.
Approach and assessment
We approach candidates discreetly and assess them against the success profile through structured, competency-based interviews.
Shortlist and report
You receive a shortlist with a written assessment of each candidate, the market evidence behind it and our recommendation.
Interviews, references and offer
We manage interviews, take structured references and help you make an offer the candidate accepts.
Follow-through
We stay in contact with you and your new hire through the first 90 days to resolve early issues before they become exits.
Indicative timelines are agreed at briefing and depend on role level and market.
Does your search require complete discretion?
Replacing an incumbent, entering a new market or building a team ahead of an announcement calls for a search conducted entirely in confidence. We work under a confidential brief, approach candidates without disclosing your name until the right moment, and restrict your information to the consultants handling the assignment. Your plans remain private until you choose to share them.
How can we serve you today?
A 30-minute conversation is enough to tell whether we are the right partner. If we are not, we will say so.