Specialist search for difficult-to-fill roles.
Executive search for specialist and leadership roles across technical and industrial markets in Switzerland, France, Germany and the UK.
When to call me
A role has stalled.
You have tried the usual routes, but the search is still not producing the right person.
The brief crosses borders or disciplines.
You need someone who can search beyond one market, language or conventional candidate pool.
You need to build, not just replace.
The requirement is about creating capability, a new function or part of a team, not simply filling a vacancy.
How I help
Technical & client facing
Specialist searches where technical depth, requirements, systems knowledge and commercial understanding need to come together.
Procurement & supply chain
Searches across sourcing, commodity, category and supply chain leadership, particularly in industrial and manufacturing environments.
Team builds & leadership
Senior appointments and multi-hire projects where a business is building capability, creating a function or strengthening leadership across a team.
Selected search experience
Multi-country procurement team build
Built 8 of a 12-person global purchasing and commodity team across Switzerland, France and Germany.
Owner succession & management team build
Recruited a new CEO together with operational and technical leadership, enabling the owner of a privately held business to step back through a planned three-year succession.
International engineering team build
Built a group of European design engineers for a German automotive business, with six months of training in Germany followed by a three-year technical assignment in Shanghai and a planned return to Europe.
Plant leadership with an unusually narrow brief
Found a plant leader for a Belgian automotive operation where heavy-industry experience, automotive knowledge, international credibility and willingness to relocate all had to come together in one appointment.
Complex specialist search
Completed a highly specific cross-border search requiring an unusual combination of Swiss and US professional expertise, where the viable candidate pool was exceptionally small.
About Andrew
I have worked in recruitment since 2008, focusing on specialist, leadership and cross-border search assignments across Europe.
My work is most useful when the brief is difficult to define, the candidate pool is narrow, or the hiring requirement forms part of a wider team build, succession or business transition.
Recruiting since 2008
Based in Zürich, Switzerland
Core markets Switzerland · France · Germany · UK
Professional approval Swiss SECO
Have a difficult role to fill?
If the brief is difficult, cross-border or part of a wider team build, I am happy to discuss it in confidence.
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