HR Director Australia, European Industrial Company

THE ROLE

To replace the existing HR Director who was returning to Europe following a secondment to upgrade the Australian HR function.

THE ASSIGNMENT

To find a candidate capable of maintaining the progress made by the previous incumbent and take the function further as a member of the local organisation. The difficulty of this assignment was that the successful candidate had to have both a big and small company mentality. The Australian organisation is of SME proportions but the European HQ, with which they would heavily liaise, is one amongst the world’s largest.  The agreed process was a combined search and advertised selection to allow us to target the industry specific and complex global organisation experience whilst leveraging the consumer brand with multi-media campaign. 

THE OUTCOME

The campaign brought in volume of suitably qualified candidates to compliment the search. The challenge came in selecting the correct person who was a fit with both the local leadership team and the global organisation. After reducing applicants to two candidates accepted by the European HR team we advised on a process involving a business presentation and Q&A with the local leadership team in order to determine a winner. In fact the successful candidate had the exact experience required but in reverse; overseas experience (as well as local) with an Australian global entity.