Executive Search

Gravitas Group are a value-driven recruitment agency, with over 14 years’ growing and maintaining valued relationships with Senior, Middle Management and Executive (C-Suite) professionals in Singapore, across the Insurance, Banking and Technology sectors.

Our bespoke Retained Executive Search service is committed to finding you top talent on the market suitable for your role. We assign a specialist consultant to exclusively dedicate their time on your vacancy, using high-quality recruitment methods and application of market knowledge to identify the best individual with the right career experience to match with your organisation’s business goals.

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Identifying key leadership professionals

Across Asia, we help recruit all leadership positions in Technology, Banking and Insurance, to oversee operational strategy, workforce efficiency and influence business growth.

We have a great history of successful executive placements, hiring ‘Head of’ and Directors across the following areas:

Technology: IT and Cyber Security, Data Science, Digital and Business Intelligence, Service Delivery, Mobile and Product, Transformation and Business Change and Engineering.

Insurance: Operations, Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting, Distribution and Accounting.

Banking: Compliance, Operations, Procurement, Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, Trading and Sales.

We also cover retained searches across the C-Suite, finding impactful individuals with extensive experience in driving strategic change, budget, profit & loss, acquisitions, private equity and programme management. These roles include CIO, CTO, Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Chief Actuary, Chief Data Officer, Chief Product Officer, CFO, CMO, Chief Claims Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, COO and Chief Treasury Officer.

What to expect from our services?

You can expect quality service and results from our expert team.

PROACTIVITY: Our specialists proactive approach confidently maps the market, carefully selecting the right professionals.

AVOIDANCE OF BAD HIRES: We only work with committed, high-quality candidates who are truly interested in the presented position. We focus on quality, not quantity to ensure a successful hire.

NICHE SKILLSETS: We identify executive hires with niche skillset sets, helping to bring together your objectives and the candidates own career ambitions.

SPECIALIST APPROACH: Our aim is finding someone who meets your long-term objectives, carefully selecting and attracting those with the correct skillset for maximum business impact.

Our executive search process

Our recruitment process over the past 14 years has been carefully developed, to create the best method of approach for the market. We react accordingly with industry updates or movements, and build a streamlined strategy, keeping engagement with potential candidates and securing the best senior talent for your position.

Agreement of terms and role scoping

Before anything else, learning about the position in detail is an important part of our process, so we can give you the best service we can. Starting with a meeting, we uncover the role’s description, objectives, package, soft skills and collaboratively agree terms.

Market mapping

As niche market experts, we take recruitment seriously. Our consultants will map the market using their expertise to highlight the market conditions for suitable professionals for the position, the demand and availability as well as benchmarking guidance.

Exclusive headhunting

Our market approach has been developed to recognise the best ways to attract and find ideal candidates. From investigating existing networks, exploring our unique database and using one-on-one social media interaction.

Valuable relationships

When approaching our existing candidate network and senior database, we have built strong relationship with senior and executive level professionals, understanding their impact, achievements, and influence in their career.

Assessing and shortlisting

Before presenting you with potential candidates, they go through a meticulous assessment and profiling, to draw out the best candidates for the position, but also the most committed.

Regular reporting updates

When approaching the market, we know the importance of transparency for a successful partnership. We provide you with weekly or bi-weekly reports, so you are kept well-informed of our progression. Across the headhunting stage, we will provide you with a weekly or bi-weekly update, so you are kept well-informed on progress.

Interview management

We will organise the interview invitations and post interview feedback as we want everyone to come from the interview with a positive experience and constructive feedback. Executive hiring processes can span over months, so candidate engagement is well-managed to avoid discouragement and worry.

Offer management

Once you have selected the right executive to offer your role to, we help negotiate and manage package expectations and onboarding to ensure your successful hire is kept engaged over the notice period.

Discover how we create and nurture powerful partnerships with our candidate and client network, and how they trust us our service offering.

Contact our recruitment team today for a no obligation discussion about your vacancy.