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Executive search & critical hiring

Leadership decisions.
Built on evidence.

Critical appointments carry consequences for growth, continuity and execution.

We begin with the business requirement, assess relevant operating experience and build a considered case for each person we introduce.

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India & selected cross-border markets Founded in Mumbai in 2016

Perspectives from hiring leaders.

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Marriott InternationalJP Mohanty · Senior Director
“We were highly impressed with her ability to meet our needs and the quality of her candidates overall.”
Daimler Truck · DTICIJadhav Prashant Kumar · HR Leader
“HiredNext consistently delivered impressive results. Their understanding of requirements and teamwork ensured seamless talent delivery. Working with Taru’s team was productive and valuable.”

Selected mandates

Judgement, made visible.

The business context. The search decision. The appointment that followed.

India market entry

One brief.
Two leadership appointments.

An international buying house establishing its India office needed a Lead Design leader who could interpret an evolving brief and build within the realities of a new operation.

We presented a focused shortlist. The client appointed one candidate to the original role and created another leadership role around a second candidate’s capabilities.

5Leadership profiles presented
2Appointments in this mandate
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Operating leadership

An overlooked profile.
A COO appointment.

A promoter-led business had been trying to close its COO mandate for months. The eventual appointee’s CV had already reached the organisation and been overlooked.

We assessed the operating relevance, engaged the candidate around the overseas move and presented a leadership synopsis explaining why the profile deserved reconsideration.

Reported outcome

The company interviewed and hired the candidate. HiredNext reports that the leader remained with the organisation for more than four years.

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A chairman’s brief · Indonesia

A chairman’s long view.
One carefully chosen recommendation.

An Indonesia-based chairman wanted someone he could develop towards CEO responsibility over time: entrepreneurial, commercially minded, capable of managing people and ready to relocate from India within a disciplined compensation budget.

Close to 40 profiles were screened out internally. Taru spoke with the candidate to assess the fit and satisfy herself about his readiness for the opportunity. Once convinced, she recommended him alone.

~40Profiles screened out internally
1Candidate recommended
Selected · Relocation in preparation

The chairman was close to appointing someone through an internal referral. After meeting HiredNext’s recommendation, he chose this candidate for the role. The candidate is now preparing to relocate from India to Indonesia and take up the appointment.

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Selected anonymised cases confirmed by HiredNext. Client and candidate identities remain confidential. These individual outcomes do not imply a firm-wide success rate.

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The business behind the appointment

What must this leader
make possible?

The same title can carry very different responsibilities. The search starts with the decisions, operating conditions and outcomes the role must own.

Growth

Build for the
next stage.

A market entry, a larger remit or a business moving beyond its founding team. Identify experience that is relevant to the stage ahead.

Leadership & executive search
Continuity

Handle a critical
transition well.

A sensitive replacement or change in leadership. Align the brief, approach the market discreetly and understand what will make the right person move.

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Execution

Close a capability
gap that matters.

A functional head or scarce specialist whose contribution affects delivery. Assess what the person has actually handled and the conditions in which they succeeded.

Specialist & permanent hiring

Where context makes a difference

Sector fluency.
Business perspective.

A title can travel across industries. The conditions for success rarely do.

Our core work connects consumer, apparel, retail, manufacturing and export businesses with the leadership and specialist capability they need. Finance, commercial and operations mandates are assessed in the context of the organisation.

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Apparel, textiles & exportsDesign · Sourcing · Merchandising · Operations Retail & consumer businessesCategory · Commercial · Brand · Business leadership Manufacturing & industrialPlant · Engineering · Supply chain · Quality Finance & corporate leadershipFinance · FP&A · Operations · Functional heads

Our approach

The business brief.
Then the shortlist.

Every introduction should come with a reasoned view of the fit, the evidence and the questions still to resolve.

How we conduct a search

For a structured selection process, use our framework for comparing recruitment partners in India.

  1. Define the business requirement.

    The outcomes expected, decision authority, stakeholder expectations and operating conditions that will shape success.

  2. Map the relevant market.

    Target organisations, adjacent talent pools, compensation realities and the reasons the right person would move.

  3. Test relevance and motivation.

    Actual contribution, leadership scope, decisions and motivation, with clear questions where the evidence needs further examination.

  4. Stay accountable through joining.

    Decision support, interview alignment and expectation management through offer, notice period and transition.

Taru Shikha, Founder of HiredNext Recruitment

A personal line of accountability

Industry experience.
Recruitment judgement.

Taru Shikha brings an industry perspective to the hiring conversation.

With a background in fashion and textiles before founding HiredNext in Mumbai in 2016, Taru understands the difference between an impressive profile and relevant operating experience. The firm is now based in Gurugram, supporting hiring across India and selected cross-border markets.

Taru Shikha Founder, HiredNext Recruitment

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India understanding.

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What must this hire
make possible?

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