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Executive Search

Executive Search is our primary area of service to our clients. We help to find the best people and build successful (management) teams. We want to find leaders who are in tune with your markets and the culture or DNA of your organization. In a world where resumees or CVs are available everywhere on the internet, we add value and insight to the identification of singularly viable candidates. Our work is founded on a comprehensive, disciplined approach that ensures finding suitable candidates who match above and beyond your requirements. Our approach enables us to respond with a rapid and deep understanding of your needs. We deliver an effective, rigorous and comprehensive approach to all our executive searches, and to ensure we meet your needs precisely.

Interim Management

Navigator has more than fifteen years of experience in recruiting, selecting and coaching interim managers. We have access to a broad group of potential candidates in the area of Finance, Human Resources and (e)Commerce. Interim Management has been implemented effectively in a variety of job functions in organisations spanning many sectors, with great diversity in the tasks at hand. The selection of the very best-suited interim manager is always our prime consideration.

Interim Managers provide their services priced at a daily rate of payment. This means the cost of hire is easily calculable. Rates are often set on the understanding of measurable goals and objectives being achieved, not just on the basis of attendance. The money an Interim Manager saves a business versus the cost of hire can often provide extremely lucrative ROI figure. Working with Navigator gives you the immediate access to our select pool of proven Interim Managers who have the knowledge, experience and gravitas necessary to step into leadership roles with immediate impact, and help ease your organisation through the diverse challenges and periods of transition that businesses so often face in today's economy.

Private Equity

Because of our long standing track record in placement of senior executives and interest in building management teams in an entrepreneurial environment we have become a true business partner for private equity and venture capital companies. We have developed a full service approach for these portfolio companies, in some situations accompanied with Management Buy In.

Management Due Diligence: team effectiveness and -composition

For our clients and investors, we optimise, redirect and develop their management teams. As we know, senior management can make or break a business. As individuals, they’re responsible for delivering results and growth. We understand the subtleties of people and what drives them, so that investors have a detailed view of the team they are investing in.The Navigator Management Due Diligence provides the team by an objective, insightful perspective on each individual in the team, and on the team as a whole, highlighting strengths and areas to build on to hit the business growth aspirations.
The Navigator Management Due Diligence identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the team. The scan discloses competences that are already available and those that are needed. It also helps to decide on which team members you to have to cherish or perhaps replace.

The Navigator Management Due Diligence standard approach:

Team clarification session to understand context and provide mutual direction
Individual questionnaire and -coach session to gain insight on personal behaviour and drives
Putting together the findings and decide on steps to improve team effectiveness and/or team composition

Competence assessment

An competence assessment can be taken on the last (or more on request) candidate by our colleague Marjolein Nijburg. We are happy to tell you more about this 'measurement'; Basically, it provides a lot of insight into someone's 'core competencies', pitfalls and where someone can still develop.

The candidate's assessment consists of:

Align profile and information candidate
Build job profile and job match
Interview candidate

A short report (analysis) will be delivered containing:

Talents and natural strength
Risk areas
Balance Area
Candidate development
Advice with match percentage and any points of attention

Placement Follow-Up

The successful recruitment of the most relevant candidate marks the formal end of the assignment. But the real result can only be judged when the new executive has been in his or her job long enough to prove their worth. As part of the assignment, we remain in touch with both the client and the successful candidate until a reasonable period after the starting date, to help overcome any assimilation problems which might affect the success of the appointment.