Partnerships: key to global executive recruitment success


2010/10/12

IRC Global Executive Search Partners (IRC), a market leader in the global executive search industry, welcomes Hungary-based Swinburn & Partners as a new member firm. Sylvia MacArthur, president of the Executive Board of IRC Global Executive Search Partners, comments:

“Swinburn & Partners not only provides IRC coverage in Hungary – the firm’s services extend to other Western and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, so IRC Global Executive Search Partners’ multinational clients can benefit from cross-border services in areas considered to offer critical growth opportunities.”

Swinburn & Partners’ ability to ‘translate’ between the Western and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) business cultures (including Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania), together with more than 19 years regional experience, will be further enhanced through membership in the IRC Global Executive Search Partners’ (IRC) network, according to managing partner Roger Swinburn.

“Membership of the IRC Global Executive Search Partners network enhances our ability to offer clients a single point of contact, combined with superlative ethical standards for executive recruitment searches throughout the world.”
Roger Swinburn, Managing Partner, Swinburn & Partners

The Budapest-based executive search firm provides middle and senior management executive search services to the regional subsidiaries of leading multinational corporations. Mr. Swinburn believes the new partnership between his company and IRC Global Executive Search Partners will increase the company’s effectiveness and ability to successfully complete challenging cross-border assignments.

“It feels great to be part of a big – very big – global network; to have access to colleagues all over the world we can talk to and collaborate with.”
Roger Swinburn, Manging Partner, Swinburn & Partners

In the last two years, more than half Swinburn & Partners’ placements have been at the general, country, and/or regional manager level. “In executing these searches we have worked with clients from abroad who have benefited from an in-depth understanding of the particular skills required to effectively manage businesses in CEE,” says Mr. Swinburn. “This knowledge is further expanded through our new partnership with IRC.”


About Swinburn & Partners

Swinburn & Partners is a Central & Eastern European executive search consultancy. We have traded successfully since inception in 1996. We provide middle and senior management executive search services to the regional subsidiaries of leading multinational corporations. Clients include Azelis, Tetra Pak, Alfa Laval, Kraft, Robert Bosch, Visteon, BAT, GSK, Q8 and Lindström. The majority of our placements are within the local subsidiaries of multinational companies. Until early 2009, the company held a licence to operate within the Boyden group. In April 2009, the company became independent and extended its coverage throughout Central & Eastern Europe. This move recognised our clients’ needs for a single point of contact and consistent standards for searches throughout the region. In August 2010, the firm launched a separate recruitment division.