Retained Executive Search

Martens & Heads! core business is identifying and assessing outstanding executives and integrating them into senior leadership roles at our clients worldwide. While our specialties are Fashion & Luxury, Beauty, and Retail, we also work with Advertising Agencies, Consumer Products, and Financial Services firms to meet all of their organizational needs.

How Do We Approach Search With Imagination™?

We believe culture is not just a place but a way of seeing things with creativity and inspiration. We seek individuals who can learn from and thrive in the culture of our clients’ organizations. Partnering with our clients, we approach search by:

• Thinking four-dimensionally about strategy, branding, culture, and the global marketplace.
• Identifying candidates who are interested in “business transformation” and can help both themselves and their company achieve their full potential.
• Learning, living, and appreciating the essence of the brand, the organization, and the individual. We bring these forces together to create great chemistry.

We work for a diverse group of select clients - including Fortune 500 companies, top multinational corporations and conglomerates, family-owned houses, private equity firms, and entrepreneurial businesses - to find the ideal individual who fits their specific requirements.

Our clients retain us to find senior-level executives, including chief executives, divisional executives, creative and design directors, and functional heads for finance, wholesale, e-commerce, marketing, technology and production.

We partner with our clients to understand the nature of their business, their strategic goals, and the culture of the company. With our mutual understanding in mind, our consultants are ideally positioned to recruit the individual with the right skills, experience, and cultural fit to meet our clients’ specific leadership needs.

For each assignment we assemble the best team, comprised of experienced consultants and research associates, in order to bring both sector and functional expertise to the search.

While our researchers and administrative assistants are vital members of the team, our consultants handle all candidate and client interaction directly, ensuring that the client sees only the best talent available. With our proprietary database and global network of contacts, candidates, and sources at their disposal, our team meets our clients’ needs with the speed and efficiency we all expect in today’s fast paced marketplace.

Above all, our commitment to the quality of our brand governs everything we do. Each step in the search process is approached with the goal of giving our clients the best possible level of satisfaction, thus ensuring our brand and yours maintain their sterling reputations.

Special Services

Today’s opportunity is to identify and hire fresh talent who bring experience and a forward-thinking mindset to your business. As your partner in recruiting, we want to add value to your talent acquisition process. Along with our retained search practice, we have four other services we would like to highlight. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE