Clients

We identify leaders who can transform your businesses today – and tomorrow.

Navigating the complexities of supply chain and commercial demands requires a team of exceptional individuals and leaders who can orchestrate and deploy effective solutions seamlessly.

At McLarendon Search we specialise in mitigating time, quality and cost pressures for critical leadership hires. Guaranteeing that you find the ideal leader for your business, with a right first-time approach. Our Executive Search strategy is tailored to identifying top talent, who will not only complement your leadership teams but bring experience and perspective in order to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving landscape.

Our Expertise

With over thirty years of sector-specific and functional leadership recruitment experience in the Packaging, Chemical and FMCG/CPG sectors, McLarendon Search stands as a trusted and proven partner in international search and selection.

Talent engagement through networking and referral is a constant activity, which reduces time and ‘total cost’ to hire. Where a positive client and candidate experience is at the forefront of our approach.

Our Process

From initial client briefing, we work our client in drafting the assignment brief. Ensuring an understanding of key technical requirements and soft-skill competencies, recognising cultural fit is a prerequisite for sustainable hiring.

Our stage-gate process from long list creation to candidate engagement and shortlist presentation, is a robust and proven approach. Every candidate undergoes a comprehensive evaluation and assessment, ensuring absolute relevance prior to shortlisting. Communication with the client and candidate is regular throughout, with the former receiving a weekly project reports and/or scheduled conversations on the project status.

Experience Matters: Supply Chain and Commercial Leadership Specialists

Over the years, McLarendon Search has cultivated deep relationships with mid-to-senior professionals and executives. Spanning senior managers and executive directors across the entire ‘Value Chain’. Our exclusive network of potential candidates is a testament to our commitment to responding to both current and evolving talent-sourcing challenges. Our comprehensive services include the following:

Talent Search & Selection/Headhunting
AI CRM and Utilisation
Leadership Assessment & Succession
Organisational Strategy

Talent Mapping
Diversity Pipe lining
Salary Bench marking and Competitor Analysis

Keeping Ahead of the Curve

We stay abreast of the latest developments in micro and macroeconomics, to ensure our strategies align with evolving market dynamics. Our world-class resourcing and research methods incorporate AI-powered data mining, market mapping and rigorous referral policy, enabling us to deliver unparalleled results.

Building Exclusive Networks

Our commitment to providing a unique offering results in exclusivity within our domestic and international talent network, thus complementing our clients’ networks. This exclusivity fosters effective, successful and sustainable business relationships that drive mutual success and growth.

Proven Methodology & Talent Intelligence

We integrate the ‘human element’ of recruitment with world-class resourcing and research methods; harnessing the power of AI-driven data mining, market and business organisational mapping techniques. This ensures an adeptness in managing the entire recruitment process—from sourcing to hiring—with unmatched speed, precision, and accuracy.

Empowering Diversity, Sustainability, and Innovation

Supply chain and Commercial functions continue to innovate and transition towards Digitalisation, along with an ever-increasing focus on Diversity and Sustainability. The focus is shifting from function leaders to business leaders with a functional bias. McLarendon Search possesses a track record as a trusted business partner, in providing foresight in Leadership trends and supporting the hiring of such leaders.

With an ongoing market intelligence and mapping approach, we support organisations in identifying diverse and innovative talent, along with integrating Sustainability as one of our cultural values.

Your Partner in Success

McLarendon Search is a business partner with proven track record and expertise, supported by extensive client references. This ensures a successful outcome when supporting leadership recruitment within the Supply Chain and Commercial functions.