Contingency Search - Executive Search is our primary area of service.

We help you find the best people, build successful teams, and generate value for shareholders through excellence. We find exceptional leaders who are in tune with your markets and the culture of your organization.

Global Coverage

Close Working Relationships and Understanding

At Pivotal, our executive search teams develop close and effective working partnerships with you to ensure we understand your strategic challenges and search requirements. This relationship is based on listening, integrity and trust.

Deep Local Knowledge

Success in executive search requires being in tune with local markets. Our partners are business leaders with deep roots in their communities. Through local ownership, we understand emerging regional issues and provide you with important local insights.

Global Coverage

We have the coverage to search the world for talent and tap into the increasingly international pool of senior executive leaders. We deliver executive search and leadership consulting solutions through our powerful network of offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and North America.

International/Cross-Border Capacity

We seek the best candidates, wherever they are located; the extensive cooperation among our branches enables us to spread a far-reaching net. Our global partner offices work together seamlessly to meet your executive search needs.

Industry Specialization

We offer you deep industry knowledge through our specialized industry practice groups. Our global consultants have extensive industry and sector expertise and stay on top of global trends and issues within these industries.

Our Search Process

In a world where CVs are available everywhere on the internet, we add value and insight to the identification of singularly viable candidates. Our work is founded on a comprehensive, disciplined approach that ensures finding suitable candidates who match above and beyond your technical requirements.

Leadership Consulting

Our approach is rooted in consulting. We listen closely to understand your situation and your needs. You may be inclined towards a leadership assessment, management audit, cultural review, or other focused investigation. In addition to executive search, you may also benefit from other value-added services such as market intelligence, leadership advice, competitive analysis or market benchmarking.

Our approach enables us to respond with a rapid and deep understanding of your needs.

Hands-On Senior Service

Our ownership partners and lead consultants are hands-on partners. We work directly and closely with you to understand your needs and ensure a successful search.

Needs Analysis and Statement of Requirements

We work with you to understand your needs and develop a Statement of Requirements to define the search. Prospect Identification.

We understand where your ideal candidate is likely to be found and identify the right international pool of executive talent. We access our network of industry connections for referrals and recommendations. This is highly customized research that finds candidates with the ideal fit.

Prospect Research and Qualification

We investigate our prospects thoroughly and only approach those with the strongest potential. We then qualify those candidates using third-party information and interviews.

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Retainer Search

In addition to executive search, we offer leadership, board and executive assessment services. Our international executive team shares knowledge and best practices around the globe, while establishing deep roots in our local communities. Uniquely vast expertise in each major industry sector and key functional area enables us to advise with pinpoint accuracy.

Boards and CEOs are dealing with the challenges of globalization, risk management, regulatory scrutiny and shareholder activism. Companies are seeking leaders to drive transformation and success, with true strength in strategy, multicultural sensitivity and the charisma to motivate their employees. With our executive search and executive assessment services, we help you to overcome these challenges and determine the best candidate for the position.

By listening, examining and understanding our client’s strategy and culture, we are able to identify “fit-for-purpose” leaders for your Executive Board of Directors, CEO, President, C-Suite, Vice President or across functional areas, always with an eye for diversity. We help find the best talent, build successful teams, and generate value for shareholders through excellence in executive search.

Unlike most executive recruiters and search consultants, we develop close, effective and long-term working partnerships with clients to ensure full knowledge and understanding of their search requirements. Repeat business from existing clients represents over 50% of our fee revenues, making us a unique executive search firm.

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