Sales & Marketing

​Key features:

• Pre-agreed selection criteria, based on your unique requirements for the role

• Bespoke service that can be tailored to both individual and volume hiring requirements

• We generate candidates using a combination of attraction techniques

• Option to represent your brand in the market with ‘co-branded’ advertising

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Why you’ll love it:

• Quicker and more cost effective than traditional hiring processes, due to higher retention rate

• One of the most reliable ways of assessing candidates’ suitability for the role

• Obtain better off-grid insight – assess what the candidates will actually do if selected, not just how good they are on paper

• Gives a better candidate experience and improves your brand perception

​Whether you’re recruiting for a handful of roles a year or a handful of roles a week, we are here to use our extensive network to find the best candidates for you. We can provide long term, permanent additions to your team or also support on any long-term contract support. We can adapt depending on your requirements.

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Key features:

• On-off flexibility to suit your needs

• Time to hire: 2 to 4 weeks, including search

• Dedicated resourcing of 1 or 2 recruiters in your specific disciplines

• Shortlists within 48 hours

• Pre-agreed timeline to hire

• We source and secure high calibre talent using innovative, customised search methods

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Why you’ll love it:

• Quick and easy access to quality candidates

• Reduced time to hire

• Less time spent reviewing CVs and interviewing

• Low risk - no need for financial investment. Our search-to-fill rate is one of the best in the market

• We can accommodate the differing needs of your business over time; whether you are reaching a project stage or need a full team restructure

• You can start your process as soon as you are ready to ensure a complete handover phase

• Long term support and advice

​Key features:

• Partnered approached to full project scale recruitment

• One central supplier for all recruitment, regardless of skillset or discipline

• Pre-agreed pricing for multiple hires

• Agreed timelines for onboarding new hires

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Why you’ll love it:

• Dramatically lower your recruitment costs by 20% on average

• Reduce your time to hire, so you can complete projects ahead of schedule

• Budget and forecast for new hires effectively

• Free up your time to focus on your core activities that keep your business successful

• Receive a seamless experience and gain a strategic business partner who understands your business and helps you achieve your goals faster

Key features:

• Using both our Regional Research Center of Excellence (COE) and experienced in-country Consultants, we will objectively map niche markets

• Fully bespoke from a location, skill set and seniority perspective

• Maps will give a visual of the current market conditions and where the talent sits from a regional perspective

• Provides insight on restrictions / NOCs / notice periods

• Proactive and organic for quick access and use

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Why you’ll love it:

• Increased awareness of your employer brand to help you stand out from the crowd

• Benchmark your reward strategy and team structure against the most effective in the market

• Successfully headhunt direct competition to your business

• Your experience will be interactive - we’ll empower you and engage candidates towards your brand

• Arms you with the information you need to make a business case to senior decision makers about gaps in your team

• Proactive and strategic approach to talent acquisition helps you structure your budgets more effectively

​Key features:

• Pre-defined timelines and start date for the candidate agreed as the search is started

• Using innovative, customised search methods, we source and secure the market’s best talent

• Dedicated recruitment team on each specific search

• Thorough market map to present market data and insights along with a weekly update and longlist

• For each new role, you will be assigned to of our experienced Consultants as your primary point of contact

• Flexible billing structure

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Why you’ll love it:

• You gain preferred access to the best candidate pool of active and passive candidates

• Ability to rapidly ramp up and scale down resource

• Your experience will be interactive, as we’ll empower you and engage candidates towards your brand

• Remain anonymous whilst you go out to market

• Easier to plan around a pre-agreed start date

• Guaranteed to secure the hire

• More insights into the market conditions through market maps

• Staggered payment plan

• Work to tighter deadlines due to the increased resources that can be committed to the search

​Key features:

• We leverage multiple industries and locations to uncover “best in class” global talent

• Together, we agree key positions or functions within scope. E.g. could be specific roles in 6 months or just a functional area where you know vacancies are coming up in 3-6 months

• Candidates are briefed on your company under the banner of a 'talent search' for future roles

• When roles become live, the best candidates are already in the mix and can be offered and onboarded quicker

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Why you’ll love it:

• Working exclusively with us, we will control your message in the market and promote your brand successfully

• Most effective way to fulfil your ongoing hiring needs

• Allows you to plan your hiring and take a much more consistent approach

• Highest calibre candidates will deliver greater results quicker, saving you time and money

• Gives you a competitive edge during crises

The challenge:

Our client, a multinational chain of personal care and beauty stores, was on a major digitalisation drive and wanted to create a best-in-class Digital and eCommerce team from scratch to evolve and grow their business. They engaged us exclusively as experts in Digital recruitment to source a Digital Marketing Manager, Digital Communications Manager, Head of CRM and a Customer Experience Manager. They naturally wanted to see the best candidates but needed advice on suitable target industries based on functional capability.

Our solution:

We agreed an incrementally reducing fee for each placement, as well as providing feedback within 24 hours of each interview. In the interests of speed, we aimed for the entire interview process to be completed within two weeks and any offers to go out 48 hours after the final stage.

The outcome:

• We delivered a talent management solution that resulted in all the key hires being made

• The brand enjoyed a 23% cost reduction

• The leadership team improved their interview techniques and increased the offer-to-acceptance ratio from 1:4 to 1:2

• Our strategic partnership approach allowed us to go outside of standard industry testing thinking, delivering best-in-class candidates that wouldn’t have otherwise been considered

The challenge:

Our client was new to the region, starting up a cosmetic brand to be headquartered in Dubai, looking for candidates with a luxury retail background. The brand was known in the US, but unknown in the region, with no links to local quality candidates. Despite the risks associated with joining a start-up, thousands still responded to the client’s LinkedIn advert, resulting in an almost impossible time-consuming challenge of responding.

Our solution:

Argyll Scott was recommended to them and we were signed to find an Art Director and Senior Copywriter, both of whom needed Cosmetics/Beauty experience. We mapped all the relevant beauty brands, direct competitors and luxury retailers, and sourced referrals from our network. We also advised the company to look outside of the region for the Art Director role, due to limited local skillsets and ended up with over a thousand applicants to review and ultimately shortlist.

The outcome:

• Our shortlists of five candidates per role were diverse in terms of backgrounds

• All candidates who received an offer had first time acceptance rates and after a year are still at the same company

• The client has recommended us to another brand in the industry, impressed by our levels of service

• We are now their trusted exclusive recruitment partner and have since also placed a Social Media Editor, Graphic Designer and Global Brand Director

The challenge:

Our client, a European multinational food-products corporation, wanted to transform its Digital and e-Commerce function, including the rollout of an online club and the launch of a direct-to-consumer arm, to become industry leading. Whilst the consumer goods industry is home to some of the best talent, when it comes to Digital and e-commerce it lacks cutting edge, best-in-class functional capability. They had tried to hire a lead Head of Digital Centre of Excellence role with a view to then hiring a team underneath but had not found what they were looking for.

Our solution:

We worked closely with the management team to understand their end goal and to ensure that a strong candidate pool and pipeline was in line with their requirements. We defined a service level agreement and agreed to measure success, before reworking the proposition to include a digitalisation brochure, so that it landed well with candidates from outside consumer goods. We explored other industry sectors such as Fashion and Technology to define best-in-class capabilities, and to hone a shortlist.

The outcome:

• We hired the Head of Digital Centre of Excellence from a global Fashion retailer

• Our process was rolled out to deliver five further roles in Digital and e-Commerce

• Further pipeline and talent pooling were agreed for future vacancies in the same space