Laborare Group was engaged to deliver a highly confidential, 33-appointment commercial, technical and laboratory build-out across Europe for a global chemical business.
The original brief encompassed 27 appointments. As the programme developed, the scope expanded, with Laborare ultimately delivering 33 appointments across leadership, commercial, technical-commercial, regulatory, applications and support functions.
Rather than recruiting for individual vacancies in isolation, the assignment required the coordinated development of capability across multiple European markets while protecting the client’s wider expansion strategy.
The Challenge
The client was entering a significant phase of European expansion, requiring commercial, technical and specialist capability to be built simultaneously across multiple markets.
The complexity came from coordinating interdependent appointments across different functions, engaging predominantly passive talent and maintaining complete confidentiality throughout the programme.
Our Approach
We conducted detailed competitor mapping, targeted direct search and coordinated assessment across multiple European talent markets.
Searches were managed as one programme, allowing sequencing, candidate messaging and alignment between functions to be carefully controlled.
No roles were advertised. Candidate engagement was conducted discreetly and adapted to individual market conditions.
The Outcome
Laborare successfully delivered 33 appointments against an original brief of 27, with every successful candidate sourced directly by Laborare Group.
The completed programme established strengthened commercial, technical and specialist capability across the client’s European organisation.
Following delivery of the programme, Laborare was awarded further international assignments.
SCOPE OF ENGAGEMENT
Building Capability Across Functions
We delivered 33 appointments across multiple functions and European markets, building commercial, technical and specialist capability to support the client’s continued European growth.
KEY AREAS INCLUDED:
Leadership & Sales
Technical-Commercial
Product Management
Applications & Laboratory
Customer & Internal Sales Support
CONFIDENTIALITY & MARKET CONTROL
Protecting Strategic Intent
Confidentiality was fundamental to the programme. With multiple appointments progressing simultaneously, visible recruitment activity had the potential to reveal the client’s wider expansion strategy.
No roles were advertised
All candidates were identified and engaged through discreet, targeted search.
Candidate engagement and messaging were carefully controlled across the programme to prevent patterns of hiring activity from revealing the scale or direction of the client’s plans.
OUR PERSPECTIVE
More Than the Sum of 33 Hires
Multi-market hiring programmes require more than individual searches. Success depends on understanding how roles connect across functions, how capability needs differ between markets and how hiring activity can be coordinated without exposing the wider strategy.
For this assignment, Laborare combined market mapping, direct search and coordinated assessment to build capability across multiple functions while maintaining confidentiality throughout.
The result was not simply 33 completed appointments, but an integrated structure designed to support the client’s continued European growth.
Supporting complex leadership and commercial hiring across international chemical markets
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