Executive Leadership Search
The chief officers and executive leaders who carry a strategy and shape the direction of the enterprise. Research led, founder led searches calibrated to the consequence of each role.
The model matches the consequence of the appointment.
Every level runs on the same disciplined method. What deepens with each level is the depth of assessment, the intelligence delivered and the share of our fee placed at risk.
Six leadership domains.
Finance and Governance
Chief Financial Officers, General Counsel and senior leaders across controllership, treasury, risk, compliance, company secretarial and corporate finance, including finance leaders making the transition from stewardship of the numbers to allocation of capital and enterprise value creation.
Operations
Chief Operating Officers and leaders across supply chain, manufacturing, projects and service delivery who translate strategy into operating performance, resilience and dependable execution.
Technology
Chief Technology, Digital, Data and Information Security Officers, together with leaders across AI, engineering, cloud and enterprise technology who shape how organisations compete, scale and transform.
People
Chief Human Resources and People Officers, together with senior leaders across talent, organisational development and learning who connect leadership, capability and culture to business strategy.
Commercial
Chief Commercial, Sales and Marketing Officers, together with business development and growth leaders accountable for markets, customers, revenue and profitable growth.
General Management
Country Heads, Regional Presidents, Managing Directors and business leaders entrusted with a market, a geography or a P&L, including leaders who can take a global organisation into a local market and a local business onto the global stage.
The framework behind every placement we make.
Aligned Leadership sits within Aligned Acquisition, our framework for aligning every appointment on mandate, capability and culture. Every search begins by writing down, with the hiring leader, what the mandate demands on four dimensions. Candidates are then assessed against the same four, so the shortlist is compared on evidence.
| What the mandate demands | Dimension | What the leader must bring |
|---|---|---|
| A mandate that cannot wait for a learning curve | Leadership | C Suite calibre, ready to lead from the first day |
| Outcomes the board will measure | Performance | Delivery against clear success measures |
| A sector that runs on its own rules | Knowledge | Deep sector, domain and market insight across geographies |
| A relationship that outlives the placement | Customer focus | Long term partnership rather than transactional behaviour |
Strategic: Shared Accountability.
Executive leadership roles run on our Strategic model, with the full Intelligence Layer of market evidence, a share of the fee held until the appointment has proven itself and continuity assurance for up to 365 days. Selection tests strategic trade offs and direction.
The engagement architectureWhere this leads
An executive search firm in Dubai, working across the GCC.
Hunters and Skipper is a founder led executive search and leadership advisory firm based in Dubai. We search for chief executives, board directors and C Suite leaders across the United Arab Emirates, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, with reach into India, Africa, Europe and South East Asia.
We work with listed companies, family owned groups, government related entities and investor backed businesses. Where national talent programmes such as Emiratisation and Saudisation apply, qualified national leaders are built into every longlist.
Building the executive team that will carry your strategy?
A confidential conversation with the Founder about the role, the market and the leaders who could take it on.