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Archive for director

Mar
5

Smart Meters Recruiting Director Product Portfolio Management, Boston

by Charles Moore

The Company had a background in building telecom and wireless RF components.  Two years prior to this retained recruiting search, this publicly traded company in the Northeast opened a new division to penetrate the smart energy and smart meters market with M2M communications modules for Automated Metering Infrastructure.

Smart Meters recruiting  a retained search case study

They had added several partners in manufacturing and systems integration, but felt the vendor relationships needed a primary management role in order to deliver on the smart meters business strategy into the highly competitive smart grids marketplace and needed a Director of Product Portfolio Management for their growing business.

Smart Meters Director Retained Search Strategy

Smart Meters recruiting for AMI Smart Grid M2M Wireless Data Radios

The Director of Portfolio Product Management would be tasked with developing relationships and projects that would define and lead the integration of the company’s smart meters products into a diverse and broad range of domestic and international smart energy and smart grid 3.0 M2M, communications, utilities regulatory bodies, and metering systems and subsystems partners’ platforms.

In order to meet the Performance Objectives as defined, the ideal candidate needed a background in the utilities metering markets and wireless data radios, preferably M2M for power management and remote monitoring.

The candidate also needed relationships with smart meters and energy vendors and regulatory bodies in North America and Europe.  A proven track record in growing product portfolios and increasing market share against strong competition was essential.

Result of Retained Search for Smart Meters Director

Within 4 months of the candidate hired from NextGen Global Executive Search, the new Director for smart meters had strengthened 3 existing partnerships resulting in contract bids of $184M and grew the team by adding a KEY Senior Solutions Engineer to work directly on customer requirements and defining smart meters strategies for the customers.  The client has initiated a new retained search assignment with us for a VP role.

0 Categories : Smart Meters - Smart Grids
Jan
31

Director Product Portfolio Management Plasma Technologies

by Craig Hufford

plasma sugical medical device nextgen global executive search Objective: NextGen Global Executive Search was retained to fill a Director of Program, Product and Portfolio Management for Blood Collection  in Plasma Surgical Medical Devices R&D.  Reporting to the VP of Advanced Development this highly visible position was to provide a significant influence to the product portfolio of a growing, $500 million business and was to offer professional growth that included daily interaction with the Executive Management Team. This client, who had used us before, came to NextGen GES because of our reputation in the market for similar searches, as well as the client’s confidence in our ability to deliver the right candidates quickly based on our previous track record with them.

Search Strategy: NextGen GES conducted a thorough search for candidates throughout United States and Canada which included key competitors in parallel and similar industries. Our customer had instructed NextGen start our search at the local level before standing nationally. Our focus was on candidates that were currently employed making significant contributions to their companies. Having interviewed more than 12 candidates at the local level, NextGen GES was able to distill those candidate profiles into 3 outstanding candidates presented in a “short list” to the overwhelming satisfaction of the customer. All candidates presented on the short list were local to the area.

Results: The search resulted in NextGen GES finding a candidate from one of the client’s direct competitors who were performing similar responsibilities and ready for a new challenge. Feedback from the client showed that the candidate had not only met but exceeded their own expectation. The client was particularly pleased with our search methods and exhaustive research and immediately moved to make an offer of employment. In addition, they were quite satisfied with how our team kept them informed throughout the process, the speed in which we executed, the quality of the selected candidates and the fact that NextGen had saved them considerable relocation costs by finding a local candidate. This client continues to use us for many additional and ongoing high level searches.

Client: Major Medical Device Manufacturer of surgical plasma devices for Director Product Portfolio Management

Case study of retained search

0 Categories : Surgical | Medical Devices
Jan
31

Sr Director Systems Engineering Portable Ultrasound Medical Devices

by Craig Hufford

Objective: NextGen Global Executive Search was retained to fill a Senior Director of Systems Engineering. Reporting to the VP of Advanced Development in Product Engineering, this individual was being sought to build a requirements driven systems engineering technology organization to its full potential and to be the first in an explosive market with the recently introduced best in class portable ultrasound medical devices.  This client, who had used us before, came to NextGen GES because of our reputation in the market for similar searches, as well as the client’s confidence in our ability to deliver the right candidates quickly based on our previous track record with them.

Search Strategy: NextGen GES conducted a thorough search for candidates throughout the contiguous United States and Canada which included key competitors in parallel and similar industries. Our focus was on candidates that were currently employed making significant contributions to their companies. Having interviewed more than 45 candidates in an industry known to have an extraordinary amount of mid and upper level executives, NextGen GES was able to distill 45 candidate profiles into 3 outstanding candidates presented in a “short list” to the overwhelming satisfaction of the customer.

Results: The search resulted in NextGen GES finding a candidate from one of the client’s direct competitors who were performing similar responsibilities and ready for a new challenge. Feedback from the client showed that the candidate had not only met but exceeded their own expectation. The client was particularly pleased with our search methods and exhaustive research and immediately moved to make an offer of employment. In addition, they were quite satisfied with how our team kept them informed throughout the process, the speed in which we executed, and the quality of the selected candidates. This client continues to use us for many additional and ongoing high level searches.

Client: Manufacturer of portable ultrasound medical devices for diagnostic and monitoring of the heart

Case Study retained search for portable ultrasound medical devices Director Systems Engineering

0 Categories : Surgical | Medical Devices
Dec
22

VP Sales, Director Product Management – Mobile LBS

by Kelley Dorsey

“It is my pleasure to write about Kelley Dorsey and NextGen Global Executive Search whom we’ve worked with over the past four years to recruit some of our most valuable hires.  Our challenge is finding the right combination of technical knowledge within the wireless industry. Kelley has provided us with the highest quality Senior Engineers, Director Product Development and VP Sales candidates consistently and under tight deadlines.

She took the time to understand our company’s value proposition and tells the story with the passion. She’s a pleasure to work with, highly flexible and hard working.

Over the past year, she placed VP Sales and two Directorof Product Management candidates all with very stringent requirements.  We continue to use NextGen Global Executive Search and highly recommend them.”

Mike Mortier, VP Sales & Business Development, TruePosition, Inc.

VP Sales Sourcing and Recruiting

Client testimonial of Kelley Dorsey, Practice Lead in executive search for mobile search LBS middleware systems provider in recruiting a VP Sales and Director Product Management at NextGen Global Executive Search.

VP Sales and Director Product Management Mobile LBS

We worked with the client to design a Performance Profile of the ideal candidate for the VP Sales and two different Director Product Management positions.  We made hundreds of cold calls and networking referrals to identify potential candidates for all three roles in mobile search LBS.  After exhaustive internal interviews, we were able to identify a short list of two candidates for each position that we presented to the client.

VP Sales and Director Product Management – roles filled within 6 weeks.

VP Sales Mobile Location Based Services NextGen Global Executive SearchAfter two sets of interview for each candidate  -  one by Skype video conference and one face-to-face interviews, all three positions – VP Sales and both Director Product Management accepted offers within 3 weeks apart from each other.

Kelley Dorsey has been recruiting CXO, SVP Engineeering, VP Sales and Product Management, and International Sales Directors in the mobile wireless industry for over 15 years.  Kelley Dorsey is a Sr. Partner at NextGen Global Executive Search leading the Semantic Web –  Digital Media, Mobile Devices and Mobile Apps retained search practice.

0 Categories : Wireless Systems and Networks
Jul
9

Blood Collection – Director Product Portfolio Management

by Craig Hufford

“Craig is an outstanding professional. He consistently provides great results, demonstrates a deep understanding of the subject matter and is of the highest integrity.   I give Craig my highest recommendation.”

Doug Newlin, SVP R&D, Fenwal ( blood collection technologies ) USA

Director Product Portfolio Management – Blood Collection – Retained Search

Craig Hufford was retained to fill a Director of Program, Product and Portfolio Management for Fenwal Blood Technologies, specifically for blood collection products.  The position reported to the VP of Advanced Development and the performance objectives of the role was to provide a significant influence to the product portfolio.

Blood Collection Director Recruitment Search Strategy

We conducted a thorough search for candidates throughout United States and Canada which included key competitors starting at the local level first.  Our focus was on candidates that were currently employed making significant contributions to their companies in blood collection.  Craig’s team was able to distill into 3 outstanding candidates presented in a “short list” to the overwhelming satisfaction of the customer.

Candidate Hired for Blood Collection within 5 Weeks of Initiating the Search

Medical Devices Blood Collection Technologies Director Product Portfolio Management NextGen Global Executive SearchThe candidate hired for the blood collection products was local from one of the client’s direct competitors who were performing similar responsibilities and ready for a new challenge.

The client was particularly pleased with our search methods and exhaustive research and immediately moved to make an offer of employment. In addition, they were quite satisfied with how our team kept them informed throughout the search process for the blood collection director, the speed in which we executed, the quality of the selected candidates and the fact that NextGen had saved them considerable relocation costs by finding a local candidate.

Client Testimonial of Recruitment Services in Blood Collection 

Client testimonial for Craig Hufford, Practice Lead for Medical Device leading a team of retained executive search consultants in recruiting a Director Portfolio Management for Blood Collection products in the Chicago area.

Craig Hufford is a Managing Partner at NextGen Global Executive Search leading aerospace and defense, enterprise systems, and medical device retained search.

 

0 Categories : Medical - Health Devices

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