turkey, finance director, cfo, pharmaceuticals, pharma, emerging markets
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Search for a NYSE listed pharmaceutical and medical aesthetics company with annual sales of $15bn to recruit a Finance Director for the $150m Turkey business unit. The focus of the search was to identify a strong business partner who could raise the capability of the team and encourage closer collaboration with stakeholders.
russia, finance director, cfo, emerging markets, pharmaceuticals, pharma
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Search for a NYSE listed pharmaceutical and medical aesthetics company with annual sales of $15bn to recruit a Finance Director for the $100m Russia business unit. The focus of the search was to identify a strong business partner who could raise the capability of the team and encourage closer collaboration with stakeholders.
Sector: Biotechnology
An international high technology R&D company with multiple legal entities in Russia & CIS countries with annual revenues in excess of $500m. The CFO is being recruited to develop the "finance business partner" concept in the countries in order to bring finance in closer alignment with the commercial organisation in order to influence decision-making. At the same time build confidence and capability in team of 35 individuals.
cfo, finance director, apac, asia, tobacco, fmcg, emerging markets, cambodia, laos, Asia Pacific, asia
Sector: Tobacco
Working with a top 4 tobacco group to identify a CFO for the Indochina business, with $120m net revenue and commercial and manufacturing operations in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. A highly challenging assignment because the Cambodian government was a share holder and objectives were not always aligned. The search was cancelled at the final stage due to the emergence of an internal candidate.
cfo, finance director, cee, see, slovenia, tobacco, fmcg, emerging markets
Sector: Tobacco
Working with a top 4 tobacco group to identify a CFO for the Adriatics business, with $100m net revenue and commercial and manufacturing operations in 6 countries in the cluster. A highly challenging assignment because the Adriatic cluster is a "training" market for the larger tobacco firms therefore it was necessary to target outside of the sector in mainstream FMCG. The search was cancelled at the final stage due to the emergence of an internal …
cfo, finance director, eastern europe, cis, Eurasia, emerging markets, pharmaceuticals
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Mandate to hire the Southern Eastern Europe CFO for a top ten pharmaceutical company with regional operations in Romania, Bulgaria, Balkans as well as the CIS region, with total revenues of $250m. The tough aspect of this search was the fact the company did not have alignment internally, and started initially targeting expatriated Western Europeans, then local nationals, then "local plus".
cfo, finance director, marketing communications, russia, emerging markets, advertising, branding, agency
Sector: Marketing Communications
Mandate to hire the local agency CFO for a big 3 marketing communication group branding network. The challenge in this assignment was to hire a more senior CFO than the position required at that time in order to facilitate the planned growth in operations.
cfo, finance director, finance director, pharmaceuticals, pharma, russia, emerging markets, Eurasia, blue chip
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Managed the search to hire a country CFO for a highly demanding international pharmaceutical group. The Russia business generated sales of $700m and represented a huge strategic objective for the global management team. The previous Russia CFO had been highly successful so the benchmark was already very high, and intially the company sought a Western nationality candidate but the successful candidate was a Russian national.
cfo, finance director, russia, emerging markets, Eurasia, power, engineering, projects
Sector: Power
Working with a FTSE listed Power company to identify candidates for a cluster CFO role in this high growth region. The company was seeking a Big Four trained finance professional who had subsequently joined a Western company ideally in engineering, project-driven or construction services. We were seeking a recently appointed CFO with Russian nationality who had the cultural adaptability and communication style to engage with the global leadership team, and with the …
cfo, finance director, power, emerging markets, Dubai, middle east, FTSE
Sector: Power
CFO for international operations for a multi-national power company. This London stock listed company was growing rapidly and keen to hire a CFO for the International region, a $1bn geographical business unit with operations throughout emerging markets.
