In the Consumer Technology, Media & Internet, Information & Communications Technology and the Cleantech Leadership Solutions industries, one of the biggest problems you face is in hiring leaders in the critical areas of Sales, Marketing and Business Development. These important market-facing positions require skill sets that are difficult to find, assess and hire for, because of their unique requirements:

• Sales – it’s a well-known fact that sales leadership is a tough hire. Great sales execs are ambitious, tireless, true leaders who can energize an entire company. (In fact, several of our Practice Directors at LGES have written an incisive white paper on this very topic, download your copy here.)
  
  
• Marketing – great marketing executives have vision, skill, experience and a creative energy that is highly effective in your high-momentum marketplace. They have an innate understanding of where your industry is headed and how to reach those “center of gravity” prospects you absolutely MUST convert to grow your business.
  
  
• Business Development – your BizDev executive must have the unusual combination of technical and industry knowledge coupled with the charisma and networking skills to build alliances – a rare commodity indeed.

Past Performance is a Million-Dollar Quality

There is a much-needed executive recruitment paradigm for these vital positions. That is one of the reasons Leadership Group Executive Search (LGES) was founded. LGES is a prominent nationwide boutique retained executive search firm, composed of industry-specific practices. The Sales, Marketing & Business Development Technology (SMBD) Practice is a specialized horizontal executive search service within LGES.

At the core of this LGES practice is our leading premise: “it takes an expert to find an expert – and executive experience to find a leader.”  LGES’ SMBD Practice is staffed exclusively by highly experienced former Sales, Marketing and Business Development executives who offer a “rifle-shot approach” to your executive staffing requirements. In fact, our clients rely on us to swiftly and successfully find, attract and hire the kind of high-performing Sales, Marketing and Business Development executives who can take their businesses to “the next level.”

How Retained Search Can “Change Your Life”…

Here is a snapshot of why LGES’s Sales, Marketing & Business Development Practice is different from any other executive search experience you may have had:

• We successfully conclude the majority of our searches within 60 days.
• We keep our concurrent searches to a minimum to provide maximum focus on your needs.
• We provide fixed-fee pricing in order to provide our clients with financial predictability.
• We only engage in high-end VP/GM level placements.
• We have extensive functional expertise in the areas of Sales, Marketing and Business Development. (See our representative searches)
• We have successfully completed over 450 searches in the past ten years.
• We work exclusively within our target industries – for both mature and emerging-market companies.

Peer-to-Peer Is the Way to Go

What makes LGES an effective resource for retained executive search for Sales, Marketing and Business Development? For starters, our Practice Directors are all experienced, successful executives from those exact positions. We know how to separate “the wheat from the chaff” in these pivotal roles. We function as confidential advisors to:

• understand your specific requirements.
• consult with our other practice directors to identify candidates.
• swiftly and accurately match requirements and suitability.
• confidentially handle candidate presentation.
• consult and advise you through the interviewing and hiring process.
• work tirelessly to produce an optimal Sales, Marketing or Business Development leader.

The LGES SMBD Practice Directors Are:

        For Information and Communications Technology:

• Bob Currie (West)
• Patrick Arnone (Southeast)
• John Calamia (Northeast)

        For Consumer Technology, Media & Internet:

• Lindsay Lautz

You cannot afford any missteps in these critical hires. Call or email LGES today to start the dialogue on what your company needs in Sales, Marketing and/or Business Development. You have nothing to lose but wasted time and the occasional failure. It does, indeed, take an expert to find an expert - and executive experience to find a leader.

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