Functional Expertise: Finding skilled industry leaders for your business

ESG is the future of the corporate world

Issues around companies’ sustainability, social impact and governance will be at the forefront of the corporate world for the foreseeable future.

It’s no longer enough that firms are successful financially. They must also prove they are not negatively affecting the world around them. Whether in terms of organisations’ climate impact, their effect on local communities, or their approach to diversity and inclusion, ESG analysis and reporting is becoming the focal point for this new frontier.

Finding the right match in an area of high conviction

Perhaps you’re an asset manager looking to integrate ESG into the investment process. Or you’re an insurer thinking about how ESG can impact your top and bottom line.

Whatever your challenge, talented ESG experts are scarce. That’s why you need a partner with experience in this area to help with your ESG talent needs – whether that be executive search, interim solutions, consulting, or talent advisory and coaching.

When you work with Sheffield Haworth, you can lean on the breadth of our specialist industry expertise and our understanding of the particular challenges that come with successfully matching the convictions of quality ESG candidates with firms’ ambitions.  

Your next CFO needs to be exceptional

Increasingly, Chief Financial Officers are tasked with driving strategic decisions and mitigating emerging risks for their organisations. It’s no longer enough for your CFO to know the numbers and existing regulatory requirements. Now they need to be able to anticipate new regulation, report on a wider variety of metrics than ever before and understand how new technologies are changing and disrupting your industry and your business.

Finding the financial leaders your business requires

Whether you’re a public company, privately-owned or a private-equity backed business, our team at Sheffield Haworth can help you with all your board-level leadership needs. 

Whatever your short, medium, and long-term requirements, our decades of experience and unparalleled market knowledge mean we can help. This includes interim solutions for short-term leadership or critical cover, executive search for permanent senior leadership roles, and talent advisory to help with your succession planning, diversity and inclusion strategies and coaching and development programmes.

Attracting and retaining the best talent is key to business success

Organisations need top talent to compete in an increasingly volatile and rapidly-evolving business world, and your human resources leaders are pivotal to this.

Organisations need senior HR professionals who can continually adapt and change while sourcing and developing the right talent to help drive business performance.

Your HR function needs to work with your executive teams to develop an integrated talent management model and futureproof your workforce by developing and engaging new and existing talent.

Sheffield Haworth’s global reach across the financial services, business and professional services, corporate and technology industries means that we have access to a wealth of cross-sector Human Resources talent.

In addition to sourcing permanent HR executive leaders, if your business lacks specific technical knowledge or strategic expertise, requires executive leadership capability or is undergoing change, our network of highly qualified, executive HR interim leaders can provide the flexible short- to mid-term support you need. 

Legal officers are now crucial to sustainable business growth

With more complex regulatory environments across almost all industries, and the continuous evolution of technology presenting new complexities around risk management, data security, and intellectual property, one thing is clear. You need to strengthen the skills base of your legal departments.

You need specialists across multiple fields, and senior leaders able to develop robust and effective advisory services to help your organisation navigate a path through this increasing uncertainty. You need legal officers who can motivate and drive change, as well as advise.

Helping to build the risk and compliance functions of the future

As new regulatory regimes continue to evolve across the world, the demands on senior risk and compliance talent are changing. Our clients not only need leaders with risk and compliance experience, they also need leaders with the essential skills to break down siloes, encourage cooperation, influence the C-suite, promote diversity and inclusion, and help identify and train the talent of the future.  

Whether augmenting your senior risk and compliance teams to support your long-term strategy or   whether you need an interim solution for a specific role, Sheffield Haworth’s extensive network of top risk management and compliance specialists means we’ll always be able to source the right talent. Our risk management and compliance consultants have real industry expertise and hands-on experience from working in financial institutions and advisory firms across the world.

Putting the customer at heart of your business

In a digital world, customer engagement with your brand has become more complex, but also more trackable. Your sales and marketing talent needs to leverage data and analytics and drive sales growth while presenting your brand in the best possible light at all times.

You also need people who can collaborate effectively and work flexibly to respond to ever-changing customer demand, as well as act as strong advocates for the customer. Commercial drive, data analysis, strategic focus, plus a little creativity and lateral thinking – these are the attributes that you increasingly need to gain a competitive edge.

At Sheffield Haworth, we specialise in sourcing the best sales and marketing talent from across multiple sectors, with a focus on skills in data, analytics, digital and risk.

Whether you need a short-term interim solution, support with transformational change, help finding the perfect C-suite marketing candidate, or executive coaching and development for your senior sales and marketing leaders, our global reach and extensive network of talent pools across multiple industries and sectors will help you find the perfect solution for your needs.

And of course every Sheffield Haworth talent engagement includes a focus on diversity and inclusion, with a methodology that helps to mitigate unconscious biases and ensure you get access for the best people for your needs, regardless of background.

Technology is at the heart of every successful organisation

In today’s fast-moving economy, organisations are prioritising digital transformation and operational resilience to support sustainable growth and the development of new business models.

Perhaps you’re migrating to the cloud, building a platform-based ecosystem, developing new mobile-first products, or looking to leverage new data assets. Whatever your needs, your C-level technology leaders need experience, drive, and an excellent grasp of both technical detail and big picture business strategy.

Finding the best senior tech leaders

Whether you need to source a new C-suite technologist, bring in an interim for a short-term transformation project, or augment the technology skills in your senior leadership team, Sheffield Haworth can help.

Our consultants have experience across multiple sectors and specialisms, and an extensive network of top technology leadership talent pools.