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Executive Search Lead | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Retail and Wholesale

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Our client: A leading, multi-sector conglomerate with diversified interests across retail and F&B.

Role Purpose:

You’ll own critical leadership mandates from intake to onboarding and bring retained-search discipline into an agile in-house setup. If you’ve run CXO mandates before and love translating business strategy into talent impact, this is your seat at the table.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own Leadership Mandates: Manage confidential and business-critical hiring across diverse sectors—consumer goods/ retail.
  • Define Search Strategy: Conduct org mapping, succession scoping, talent competitor analysis, and longlist development.
  • Candidate Assessment: Run structured interviews and psychographic assessments to evaluate leadership style, values, and impact fit.
  • Executive-Grade Documentation: Prepare professional candidate reports and influence hiring decisions through storytelling and data.
  • Governance & Integrity: Ensure all mandates follow internal governance protocols—SoW creation, offer protocols, documentation.
  • Market Intelligence: Build and maintain live leadership pipelines, succession plans, and talent heatmaps for future readiness.
  • Search Partner Oversight: Where required, engage and manage third-party firms while maintaining internal control and value alignment.

What You Bring:

  • 6+ years in executive search (retained or in-house), managing leadership mandates
  • Sector fluency across consumer, retail, healthcare, or industrial verticals
  • Mastery in confidential search processes, interview depth, and stakeholder alignment
  • Excellent written and verbal skills for producing executive summaries and presenting to senior stakeholders
  • Strong business acumen, organizational mapping capability, and understanding of compensation structures

Next Steps:

Upload your resume via our ATS platform and ensure all form details are complete. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 5-7 working days for a more detailed discussion about the role. Please note, due to high application volumes, we will only respond to shortlisted profiles.

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