Consulting Areas

Executive Board & Senior LeadershipSearch

Using a combination of psychology and smart psychometric testing to find inspiring leaders who deliver change!

The Executive Search Process is both an art and science. It’s all about chemistry, matchmaking, assessment, and selection. That's why it's important that we work closely with our clients before an engagement to understand and map their business requirements and desired outcomes thoroughly. As a relationship-driven business, we aim to form long-term trusted partnerships built on trust, delivery and repeat business. So your business's success is both front and centre for each of our consultants.

Optitude-360 has a transparent search policy, reflecting our company values of discretion, honesty, integrity, and diversity in all aspects of our work. We utilise primary research and the skills of highly qualified researchers to source and select Senior Executive leaders who deliver growth and inspire the confidence of stakeholders, shareholders and employees.

A dedicated researcher is assigned to each new project to support the primary research of the Recruitment Director. Within four to seven weeks of starting an assignment, we aim to compile a shortlist of three to five suitably qualified candidates who fit your brief and are interested in the role.

We apply cutting-edge search techniques to deliver the most relevant shortlisted candidates and pride ourselves on a 95%-98% success rate on retained assignments. This is achieved by combining Attitudinal-based Interviewing, 360°-assessment, and decision-based psychometric evaluation. No one works harder than Optitude 360 to understand and translate your business requirements into highly relevant candidate shortlists.

Finance

Whether your need is basic or complex, Optitude 360 are guaranteed to compliment your end result.

Our Financial Practice caters for the full spectrum of CFO & Financial Leadership appointments. Our consultants work across a variety of business sectors with clients ranging from quoted PLCs through to privately owned and private equity-backed businesses.

Optitude's specialist team of financial search consultants, understand that whether in a crisis or in a period of economic growth that the finance function is the beating heart of the organisation. Business leaders are acutely aware of the importance of the finance function to not only provide financial reporting and insight but to deliver the key commercial information needed to drive strategic decisions and business strategy.

We have a strong track record in recruiting the full spectrum of Executive-Level Finance appointments across the UK and Europe. Typically, we manage senior finance roles including but not limited to :

CFO - Chief Financial Officer

FD'S - Financial Directors

Director of Internal Audit

Director of Tax

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

HumanResourcesPractice

Whether your need is basic or complex, Optitude 360 are guaranteed to compliment your end result.

As strategic partners and advisers to the business, HR professionals provide your company with a sustainable competitive advantage on a wide range of corporate issues. Consequently, we recognise the importance of recruiting the full spectrum of permanent and interim HR professionals and specialists to fit your organisational requirements.

We believe that the 21st Century method for selecting the right people is to look forward and predict their performance, ability and compatibility with your company's culture and values. If you only look backwards at the history of a candidate (as in most traditional screening processes relying on a CV, reference or recommendation), you only get ‘the past’ which is often unreliable.

When assessing potential candidates, we use the Optitude Index as it has proved to be one of the most scientific, logical and totally unique assessment instruments available today. It subtly measures both an individual's values and their capacity to make a considered judgement. In addition, the data provided by the test can be directly mapped against a role and the qualities of the best performers.

BoardAdvisoryServices

"Having a strong board of directors is one of the keys to building a thriving business"

Having a strong board of directors is one of the keys to building a thriving business. Collective knowledge, experience, and expertise are vital when looking to the future and setting a course for success. In addition, board members can bring extraordinary insights and often allow you to scale up your operation much more quickly than if you relied on organic growth.

Our advisory panel comprises seasoned individuals who have come from a wide variety of backgrounds in large corporates or as entrepreneurs who have created, built, and sold several successful businesses. They can ensure you have a robust strategy and hold the company to account for achieving milestone objectives and longer goals.

The Advisory panel has expertise in many disciplines and from many sectors. Still, the overall characteristic is an ability to bring a fresh perspective on any challenge you and your organisation may be challenging.

Our panel members can be available for discrete projects or as an ongoing board room resource, depending on your needs.

For further details call us today on 0207 689 7890

CIO & CTOPractice

We Assist VC’s, Investors, Boards and Leadership Teams To Source and Retain Top Decile - CIO’s CTO’s, CISO’s & Senior IT Specialists

Optitude-360 CIO & CTO Practice

Given the rising tide of technological change, digital compliance regulations, the threat of fraud and cyber-crime, the roles of Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security officer have never been more important in ensuring the ongoing innovation and protection of the business.

Different Strokes of the Same Brush

Although CIO’s CTO’s and CISO’S roles focus on engineering, implementation, development technology management and security there are some key differences in the roles and responsibilities they share!

In mid-to-large size companies with higher executive budgets, the C-suite may include a CIO, CTO and CISO depending on their requirements.

Below are some brief role explanations

The CTO’s tend to focus on external processes such as:

  • Developing Strategies for deploying technological resources.
  • Monitoring technological changes, trends, risks and threats that influence the company’s business goals.
  • Ensuring that technology standards and compliance regulations are met.
  • Managing research and development of new technology, IT assets and associated revenues.
  • Evangelising the company’s technology strategy to the board, investors, management and employees.

A CISO is responsible for devising and delivering security strategies and ensuring that the companies data assets are protected. CISOs are often closely aligned with and work alongside the CIO to achieve these aims.

As the curators of the organisation’s information security, they are responsible for:

  • Creating and implementing security strategy in light of growing regulatory complexity.
  • Creating policies, security architecture systems, and processes to reduce the threat of cyber attacks and keep data secure.
  • Risk Management and Compliance.
  • Communicating and evangelising on the importance of security in line with company guidelines.
  • Policy development.
  • Maintaining current with global security issues that could affect the company.
  • Collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Financial, planning and strategic management.
  • Supervisory and incident management.
  • Regulation and standards compliance.

CIO’s internal processes primarily adopt an internal-facing role within the business:

  • Responsible for assessing and analysing how technology processes affect the business.
  • Identifying potential areas of improvement, roadblocks, and chokepoints.
  • Overall responsibility for the company’s internal IT infrastructure.
  • Makes executive decisions on the purchase and implementation of new IT equipment and IT systems.
  • As a business leader, the CIO is responsible for leading, managing, and motivating its IT staff.

An IT director is responsible for the management, strategy and execution of IT infrastructure for an organisation. Typical job duties include:

  • Overseeing technical projects in alignment with business goals and objectives.
  • Directing the delivery and implementation of networks, development, and disaster recovery systems and processes.
  • Working with a range of partners to find solutions to manage business activities.
  • Supervising a team of workers, while working closely with management, external vendors and advisors.
  • Preparing IT budgets and presenting proposals for capital projects to senior executives.
  • Researching and recommending new products, technologies and systems.
  • Identifying new market opportunities.
  • Leading efforts to continuously improve IT processes.