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Providing Talent Solutions and Leadership Advisory to Business Service Firms and Consulting organisations
Transformational people solutions for leading Consulting & Professional Services Organisations
Our highly experienced consultants specialise in senior leadership recruitment and strategic research solutions for some of the world’s leading professional and business service firms. With decades of expertise, our team understands these sectors’ unique challenges and demands, allowing us to deliver customised solutions that align with our clients’ strategic goals and organisational culture.
People are your key competitive advantage
Professional and management consultancy firms face a critical imperative: evolve or risk being left behind. Clients are becoming increasingly sophisticated, demanding diverse, innovative, and cost-effective solutions. Concurrently, a dynamic geopolitical landscape continues to reshape client needs, altering the competitive landscape for service providers. To thrive in this environment, consulting firms require adaptive leaders and organisational cultures prepared for future challenges.
Our expertise spans
Case studies
Partnering with a global multinational professional services network
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Sheffield Haworth is currently partnering with a global multinational professional services network as part of the firm’s significant investment to build their Strategy and Transformation capabilities globally.
In order to support the delivery of the firm’s ambitions to be able to support clients from strategy through to execution it was critical to be able to attract senior, Partner level, talent from Tier 1 Management Consulting / Strategy houses..
Sheffield Haworth were ultimately selected as a key executive search partner to build out these new capabilities given our strong track record and ability to build new capabilities by being able to identify and engage talent from traditional and non-traditional sources.
These are global searches with focus on specific competency or sector focus areas.
Completed Strategy Leadership Services
- Partner, Strategy, Financial Services
- Partner, Strategy lead Health & Life Sciences
- Partner, Strategy, Comms & High Tech
- Partner, Strategy, Restructuring & Turnaround
- Partner, Strategy, Consumer Goods
- Partner, Strategic Transformation
- Partner, Strategy, Industrials
- Partner, Digital Strategy
Additional Project Work
Our team has supported this firm for over 20 years and in the last 7 years appointed over 100 Partner, AP and Director hires globally predominantly within the Strategy, Business & Technology Consulting service lines but also across M&A and Tax. Sheffield Haworth has also delivered Diversity, Team Lift and Acquisition programmes.
Addressing the lack of gender diverse Partners
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Challenge
Our client is a global multi-disciplinary professional services firm with an established and successful technology and analytics practice. We were engaged to help address the lack of gender diverse Partners within the Analytics and Technology businesses, with a particular focus on those with experience working in the Financial Services sector.
It was important that the successful individuals could also bring experience of driving revenue growth across large key accounts and selling multi discipline projects across technology.
Solution
We agreed with the client from the outset that it would be important to engage with overseas talent due to the relatively small gender diverse talent pool within the local market.
We built two separate market maps in order to help our client visualise the different talent pools – the local market technology and analytics consulting and corporate technology and analytics market, and an international map of gender diverse consulting profiles.
We were particularly conscious of how the roles were positioned due to the lack of diversity within the existing leadership team and advised our client specifically around this and the interview process. We felt it was important to include female Partners from other areas of the business in order to help satisfy candidates questions around their diversity agenda.
Outcome
Through this search SH identified Partner candidates in the local market and globally, assessing them and bringing them into process and have successfully hired four individuals to date which has significantly shifted the diversity of the leadership team in the local market.
Data on search:
- Candidates identified: 387
- Candidates brought into active pipeline and assessed by client: 17
- Candidates hired so far: 4 (3 from the local market and 1 relocating)
As part of this we also built a pipeline of diverse technology and analytics talent for future hires.
A Global Network of Consultants
Our global presence and deep network spans the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, allowing us to partner with clients wherever they are. With local expertise and a worldwide network, we deliver tailored talent and leadership solutions that drive success in key markets.
Our Consultants
No matter where you are, our strategically placed offices in 13 key global technology hubs enable us to rapidly identify, engage, and hire top executive talent in your local market or source leading specialists
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