We are an executive research firm which helps businesses make more intelligent decisions about talent planning, talent acquisition and talent organisation.
We assist businesses in better understanding the talent within their marketplace or competitors. We identify, assess and secure talent.
We operate across a diverse range of industry sectors, business types and job functions. We have a bright, energetic and cosmopolitan research team.
A UK multinational business looking to hire within a new market, such as Russia
A French firm wishing to gather market and company intelligence within an emerging market, such as Ghana
A business seeking rare talent, requiring a global trawl
A South African firm looking to source European talent
A US business looking to hire talent from a specific region, such as Scandinavia
An Australian business looking to source from countries which have developed advanced expertise in a particular field, such as digital product development.
Because we are often looking for niche talent, it is not unusual for a project to include multiple countries, sometimes across three or four continents.
Having carried out assignments in around 110 different countries, including all of Europe’s key markets, we are worldly-wise when it comes to finding exceptional talent.
Our sector experience is broad, although we do have deep experience in certain industries, such as media and professional services. Because we are a research-driven firm, we are able to cross sector, geographical and functional boundaries more easily than companies who rely on existing networks or databases.
Online has rapidly and fundamentally changed the business landscape and the shift from traditional to e-Commerce revenue models continues unabated driven by the demand for the flexible and the instantly accessible. Constantly updated and newly developed technologies and platforms spawn […]
In both the emerging and developed worlds, engineering and construction of transport infrastructure are key drivers of economies providing jobs and investments, building and sustaining communities and allowing the increasingly rapid movement of people and products. Ranging from the design […]
Consumer Products
The 21st century’s consumer is both social media active and internet empowered, making informed decisions through research, reviews and product comparisons at the tap of a phone screen. Technology increasingly shapes the way consumers buy and the types of purchases […]
1. Hiring sales directors to build a new FTSE 100 business unit
Dixons Carphone plc established a new B2B unit – Connected World Services – which helps partners build connected mobile retail business around the world. It does this by supplying technology, managed services and expertise, and by leveraging business networks established […]
2. Recruiting a finance director in Scandinavia for a TV production company
FremantleMedia is an international TV production and distribution business, associated with leading entertainment programming and formats, such as The X-Factor, Got Talent and The Apprentice. Following a majority-stake acquisition in Denmark, and with revenue growth forecast, the business wished to […]
3. Finding marketeers in Europe for a travel e-commerce business
Tablet Hotels is a New York-based online booking company for professionally-reviewed boutique hotels. They commissioned Research Europe to help them hire their first staff outside of the US. Our mission was to identify e-commerce, marketing and brand experts who could […]
4. Hiring an interim marketing director for an internet marketing firm
TradeDoubler is a pan-European internet marketing firm which connects 2,500 advertisers with a network of over 500,000 website publishers. The chief commercial officer wished to rapidly hire an interim marketing director who could manage the marketing department for a few […]
Rovio is a Finnish entertainment media business which created the globally successful Angry Birds brand. Crucial to such an enterprise is a sustainable multi-category consumer products licensing business. Research Europe was asked to find a new licensing director to be […]
Our client is an internationally successful online fashion retailer. Their resourcing team in London commissioned Research Europe to carry out a talent mapping exercise to identify and profile potential candidates for a general manager to be based in Shanghai. We […]
7. Supporting a diversity programme at a professional services firm
The global professional services firm PwC asked us to support part of their drive to improve diversity throughout the business. We focussed on gender diversity at Partner and Director level within a specific UK practice. We began by comparing gender […]
8. Helping a French software company make decisions about remuneration
KDS is an entrepreneurial French software business which helps corporate customers manage their travel and travel expenses. The CEO wished to gain information about remuneration levels at senior levels within the finance function from comparable businesses for benchmarking and reward […]
We supported Homecoming Revolution, which describes itself as ‘the brain gain company for Africa’, and SPI, a South African executive search firm. They had partnered with a Johannesburg-based investment bank who wished to repatriate South African banking talent from the […]
10. Competitor mapping and talent intelligence for a music company
Our client is a multi-label music business which records and distributes the music of hundreds of well-known artists around the world. We carried out research to establish information about the structures and organograms of revenue-generating functions within companies of interest […]
11. Identifying financial and professional services talent for a search firm in Germany
Egon Zehnder in Germany was undertaking an extensive search assignment to find senior risk management professionals from across Europe. They required executive research support in the UK and commissioned Research Europe to carry out research into banks and professional services […]
