Challenge

A long-established client of North Search presented a challenge to the organisation in the need to diversify their technical capability. This diversity was hoped to broaden the client's involvement in major projects moving forward. This organisation leads health infrastructure projects from inception through to financial, business case, planning and delivery. The early stages of each project were successfully executed, but internal capability typically halted at the business case stage of each project.

The client wished to enhance its market position as a reliable leader for full-scale projects within the health infrastructure space. However, they were missing out on opportunities with their inability to successfully fulfil the project lifecycle. The client approached North Search to resolve this issue and inspire change within the organisation.

Strategy

Utilising market knowledge, network connections and a range of technical systems, North Search consultants conducted a full-scale executive search process (discover more here). A regional market map of players in the space was developed to identify a target list for review. Diversity targets were also considered. Candidates were assembled into a shortlist for the client before moving on to the engagement and qualification section of the process.

Result

The preferred candidate was identified and engaged early in the process, and later candidates were utilised as bench-markers to ensure the select candidate was the best choice, and to ensure bias was avoided to achieve the most informed hiring decision. The internal process was completed with meaningful time constraints considered for the candidate.