A challenging COO recruitment in India (600 staff) in the industrial scale and weighing system sector. Only 6 working days from the client briefing to the submission of a selection of 5 candidates…
Avery Weigh-Tronix, headquartered in the UK, is one of the leading industrial scale and weighing system manufacturers in the world, a subsidiary of ITW, a $15bn revenue US conglomerate.
Peter Branston, Managing Director Europe, Middle East & Africa of Avery Weigh-Tronix contacted CEO Worldwide, to find urgently the new MD for his India operation (600 staff and 2 manufacturing plants), the former MD having taken retirement.
The recruitment criteria were:
- Managing director with significant experience in India and abroad, in the industrial equipments sector serving the manufacturing, construction or transportation sectors with more than 600 employees and multiple plants to manage
- University degree, possibly MBA
- Strong turnaround experience (kick-starting sales growth, implementation of modern manufacturing methodologies and increasing collaboration with the rest of the group)
- Bilingual Hindi-English
The key challenges: Urgent recruitment in India, in a very specific sector, for a senior international executive, with 5 time zones (UK, INDIA, USA, OMAN, FRANCE)
- Mandate briefing on the phone with client based in the UK
- Online CEO Worldwide mandate validation by the client
- 5 candidates short list submission to client (CV+pitch+references) in 6 working days
- Candidates telephone interviews set up with client (UK, US, India, Oman, France)
- 2 candidates face to face interviews set up with client in India (candidates traveling from Oman&India and client from the UK)
- Additional telephone interviews and online assessments with the candidate selected by the client based in Oman (mainly telephone and online communication due to problem issuing a visa to travel from Oman to the UK)
- Negotiation package support by CEO Worldwide taken into account both parties (client and candidate) interests
- Final selection & contract of employment submission by the client
- Signature of the employment contract and operational start
CEO Worldwide reactivity and right candidate match:
⦁ Only 6 working days from client briefing to the selection of 5 candidates
⦁ Final recruited candidate amongst the 5 candidates first selection
