Executive search
CXO, Fleet Director and Head-of appointments. Mapped rather than advertised, because in a market this small the advertisement is the announcement.
When the role cannot be advertised, the search has to go and find the person instead.
Senior maritime appointments in India happen in a market small enough that naming the company identifies the position within a day. Sometimes the incumbent is still in post. Sometimes the hire signals a strategy shift you are not ready to publish.
A retained search replaces the advertisement with a mapped direct approach. We identify the specific owners, managers and operators the right profile comes from, approach individuals personally, and do not name you until there is mutual interest — under NDA where the situation calls for it.
It is slower and it is more work. What you get back is a slate drawn from people who were not looking, which in a market this size is usually where the right person is.
Deliverables, not promises
A mapped market
A written view of who holds the equivalent role across the target set, and which of them are genuinely approachable.
Discreet approach
Candidates contacted personally and confidentially. Your name enters the conversation only when both sides are interested.
Assessed slate
A defended shortlist with structured interview notes, references taken on request, and an honest read on each candidate’s risk.
Offer management
Package benchmarking, notice-period navigation and counter-offer defence — where senior hires are most often lost.
- 4–6 Weeks to a typical executive slate
- 100% Of executive mandates run confidentially
Before you brief us
How confidential is confidential?
Your name is not used in any approach until a candidate has expressed interest in an anonymised description of the role and, where you require it, signed an NDA. No advertisement is placed and the mandate does not appear on our job board.
Why does it take longer than a normal search?
Because there is no inbound flow. Every candidate is a direct approach, and senior people take a week or two to respond to an unsolicited conversation about their career. Budget two to three weeks more than a contingent search.
Can you search outside India?
Our network is strongest across India and the Gulf, and reaches into Singapore and Northern Europe through candidates who have worked there. For mandates centred outside those markets we will say so rather than take the brief.
Ready to brief us?
Tell us the role. We will tell you what it will take.