Recruitment of a Managing Director, Europe – Large UK based, International Building Products Distributor

The Challenge

The Company is the UK’s market leading supplier of insulated sheet materials for walls, ceilings, rooves and floors. Today more than half of the Group’s multi-billion pound revenue is earned from operations in Europe, most notably in France, Germany, Benelux and Poland. Odgers was informed in confidence that the Group CEO was about to retire and the Managing Director, Europe was to succeed him. Our brief was to conduct a confidential pan-European search to replace the latter, in order to release him for his promotion to Group CEO. In addition to building product distribution experience, the brief expressed a strong preference for the appointee to be based in Continental Europe.

The Approach

Odgers deployed its pan-European network to identify and search in leading building products Distributors throughout Europe.

The Result

A range of highly qualified candidates were considered from the key target countries. The appointee was a Divisional Managing Director from a French-owned building products manufacturing and distribution group, who will continue to base himself in Strasbourg.

About Odgers Berndtson

Odgers Berndtson is the UK’s leading executive recruitment firm. It operates internationally across 51 offices, of which 8 are regionally distributed throughout the UK. Offices are located in London (West End & City), Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Cardiff.

It comprises a broad range of dedicated practices offering specialist executive recruitment skills by sector and by job-function. The Building products Practice specialises in the recruitment of executive roles in a wide range of markets from raw materials suppliers through manufacturing and distributors to the end customer, as well as trade bodies and associations.

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