Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Pharmaceutical world leader brings challenging mandate to CEO Europe

Novo Nordisk - how to recruit an aseptic production director in only 35 days ?

Novo Nordisk, a Danish stock market listed company is the world leader in Diabetes Treatment with 27.000 employees covering 179 countries. They were looking for an Aseptic Production Director for their production unit in France. CEO Europe managed to place Eric Kummer, an iCEO certified candidate, within 35 working days after the mandate was signed. This one page case study illustrates how we handled the recruitment process...

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Friday, December 11, 2009

New Feature: Create an alert for your search in our iCEO database

You can now create an email alert for your search in our iCEO database, a weekly selection of up to three candidates matching your keywords will be send to you. You can update or delete your email alert at any time.




CEO Europe Expert file - Avoiding the acquisition curse

by Olivier Pujol

Surveys show that, in average, mergers and acquisitions destroy value. Highly publicized successes are not sufficient to compensate for disastrous operations. Yet, it is relatively easy to set the rules of good acquisition practices. M&A professionals know them well, but seem to keep breaking the rules: make acquisitions beyond the scope of their strategy, produce unrealistic business projections to accommodate for sellers exorbitant demands, or fail to implement integration plans.
The mechanisms leading to these repeated mistakes are powerful enough to overcome experience and wisdom.


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Job Offer - Germany - IT/ Computer Hardware

N° offre Position Country Sector Duration
1322 Finance Director, Manufacturing Operations, Dresden Germany, Dresden IT/ Computer Hardware Permanent position

Assignment As the FD you will control, plan and monitor the use of financial and physical resources, providing an advisory, secretarial, planning and reporting service to the whole Manufacturing Operation activity. Current or recent experience of a manufacturing environment is a must.


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Job Offer - The Netherlands - Food, Bio Science, Engineering

N° offre Position Country Sector Duration
1323 VP/Business Development, Group Innovation Manager - Netherlands Netherlands (The), UK and The Netherlands Food/Bio Science/Engineering Permanent position

Assignment Our client who is a world leading food/Bio Science/Engineering company is creating an Innovation Centre which is to accelerate and support innovation and plays an important part in achieving the innovation objectives in their vision 2010 and beyond.
Objectives A new Functional Excellence team, that will focus on the key innovation areas:
- Boost top project delivery
- Boost market understanding
- Boost entrepreneurship
- Boost Performance Orientation.

The team will work in close cooperation with the Business Groups. The team will be headed by the Program Director Innovation and they need experienced innovators.
Duration Permanent position
Start
Main business activity Food/Bio Science/Engineering


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