Leadership to Accelerate Digital Transformation

The current challenge

Digital transformation sounds like a sweeping change, but this is a process that must be strategically handled, taking place gradually at every level of an organization. The current challenge organizations are facing is the need to keep up with fast-processing technical advancements, while ensuring that employees, directors and stakeholders feel secure in their digital expertise, expanding skillsets and maintaining a valued role in the organization. A clear need for strategic, tactical thinking is required to ensure organization’s technologies can grow, and their people with them.

What needs to change?

True digital transformation is driven from the core of the organization. From the boardroom to the work floor, every level requires a customized solution, and customization requires specialists. Each with their own knowledge, digital experience and specialism. Digital proficiency comes with employee’s unique understanding and accountability of their digital footprint.

Our solution

At Amrop, our approach to technological and digital change starts and ends with people. For organizations looking for bold leaders to guide them through technological change, we take them through our careful, considered process. We start with a thorough leadership assessment of the leaders and their teams, mapping the skills and experience gaps, to later embark on an executive search strategy to find those leaders who have the required digital skills and experience.

Amrop’s Digital Practice Team has deep technology and digital knowledge, combining functional and sector experience, a global approach and valuable insights on local talent markets. We leverage our own digital tools and systems, including our dedicated Client Portal and Amrop’s Digital Competency Model. The goal is not what technology can do for you, but how technology can leverage your employees and impact them positively.

Our approach and focus

AI and digital advancement should not be seen as a solution, but as a springboard for richer discussion and greater productivity, enhancing information-gathering processes and driving informed decisions. Great leaders should value how technology can support better decisions, while trusting the authority and judgement of internal teams.

Amrop helps you select and assess the right leaders to move your organization forward on its digital transformation journey. Our dedicated teams carry out executive search assignments for recruiting board members, senior management, digital leaders like CIOs or CTOs, security officers, CDOs and heads of application management or IT operations.

Leaders who understand on a technological level, and support transformation on a personal and organizational level. We consider how a deeper technical understanding can support all teams, rather than expectation going to singular specialists.

Sector Focus

  • Cloud, Saas, Apps
  • AI, ML and Analytics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Telecom
  • Media & Entertainment
  • CIOs, Non-Executive Directors
  • Fintech

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Technology & Digital Practice Team

Sector Focus
1Cloud, Software, SaaS and Apps

The advances in CPU power and distribution are driving a new need for competitive software solutions among a wide array of companies. The digital transformation is software-centric and the industry growth shows a lot of potential for high performance. From DevOps to low-code apps and platforms, ERP, Cloud, SaaS, software development trends change as fast as technology itself.

Amrop Digital practice prides itself on dynamism: an agile, connected and forward looking global team.

They are positioned to support your executive search request for exceptional professionals who can anticipate and address the transformational challenges of their business and industry.

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2AI, ML and Data Analytics

Data will be used to better lead organizations and create new business opportunities reshaping your organizations. The future of work will change, humans and machines working more hand-in-hand.

Talent shortfalls will be an issue as mathematical, technical and analytical profiles will be in high demand.

There will be a need to blend technical and academic excellence with business acumen. Needing ethical and sustainable, holistic decision-making with respecting societal concerns.

Our team has access to a global talent pool - deep relationships with skilled and innovative candidates and academics around the world. Our executive search success will bring you outstanding professionals who are able to optimize the new business opportunities of data, AI and ML.

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3Cybersecurity

Digitization is an inevitable process for all major sectors and companies. Cyber threats are an inherent part of this revolution. All boards and executives must deal with this new reality.

Amrop helps you, our client, to define and fill top-level Security Officer and Head of Cybersecurity roles. We bring an excellent understanding of key requirements, potential vulnerabilities, and organizational context.

Amrop Digital practice prides itself on where and how to start an executive search assignment to find these high in demand talented leaders.

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4Telecoms

Global mobile network data traffic has doubled in the last two years, driven by continuing growth in smartphone usage, mobile broadband and now the digitalization of societies and industries. But traffic is not the only thing that grows.

Infrastructure and service providers have become our society’s enablers for adoption of tech in industries and a general catalyst for widespread connectivity innovation. Telecom companies and operators are continuously broadening the field of services and applications based on ever more advanced infrastructure. We expect to see clustering of products and services that are using artificial intelligence automation at various cloud and cloud edge compute capabilities, also enabling the emergence of collaborating systems, not only products, within networks.

With this new development, exceptional and inspiring leaders need to collaborate in defining new strategies and ways of working across industries to revamp or sustain their company’s role in new value chains. They need to be capable of dissolving traditional silos, streamline and develop new business teams to bring value.

We work with thought leaders, partake in industry discussions and collaborations on human capital, serve device manufacturers, telecom operators, infrastructure, cloud and service providers in helping pioneer industry leadership across all our offices. Our executive search practice helps you find these leaders worldwide – and with our reach into growing segments worldwide, our candidates will lead and deliver the results, and our leadership advisory help and their teams perform.

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5Media & Entertainment

The Media and Entertainment sector is in a high growth dynamic environment. Specific consumer demands on distributed content (language, usage, content volatility, emotional factors, and beyond) creates a need for other leaders.

There is an explosion in handheld home access devices and breakthroughs in broadband networks. All leading to transitioning to medium-independent content distribution.

Multiple media and entertainment sub-sectors like Broadcast, Print, Telecom Operators, Online Gaming and Location based have their own dynamics and need for new leaders.

Amrop serves a wide spectrum of players, from creative start-ups to mature multinationals. The team is positioned to support your executive search request for exceptional professionals who can surf the turmoil that is reconfiguring your marketplace.

 

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6Chief Information Officers, Non-Executive Directors

Technology not only brings physical change to an organization. The type of leaders that implement technological change are wired differently as well. Each with her/his own knowledge, experience and specialism. This starts in the board; their primary responsibility should be to remove the false sense of security, comfort, and routine by trying to uncover all the factors that are yet unknown.

There is a high demand for IT Directors (CIOs) in applications and ERP, cybersecurity, IT operations and infrastructure, networking, cloud, digital solutions and platforms. Your organization needs these Digital Directors who also are customer centric, can manage key stakeholders, are great at storytelling and a learner for the board.

Amrop brings valuable experience in how to set up an executive search strategy to find you these leaders. The successful process will include our leadership assessment and exclusive Amrop Digital Competency model.

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7Fintech

Amrop’s Global Fintech Practice team has extensive experience and focus within the financial technology markets. The Practice works closely with a dynamic portfolio of global consultancy firms, financial software solutions and services providers and technology start-ups operating in a series of disrupting sectors: mobile payments, money transfers and loans, fundraising and asset management.

The Amrop team has in-depth executive search experience working with both financial services and technology companies. This dual focus provides a thorough understanding of these two interconnected industries, and is a powerful platform for identifying and hiring forward-looking leaders with the relevant expertise, cultural fit and successful Fintech growth experience.

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Frequently asked questions
1What does Amrop’s Technology & Digital practice do?

We help organizations find and develop the leaders who will guide their digital transformation. That covers board members, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and security leaders. Our approach starts and ends with people: technology matters, but lasting change depends on leaders who can bring every level of the business with them.

2How is your approach different from a typical tech recruiter?

Most recruiters start with a job description. We start with a leadership assessment of your current leaders and teams, mapping their skills and experience gaps. Only then do we design the search, so every appointment fills a real need and strengthens the team around it, rather than adding another isolated specialist.

3Which roles do you recruit for?

We recruit board members and non-executive directors, senior management, and digital leaders such as CIOs, CTOs and CDOs. We also fill Security Officer and Head of Cybersecurity roles, plus heads of application management and IT operations. Whatever the role, we look for leaders who combine technical depth with strong people and stakeholder skills.

4Which sectors do you cover?

Our specialist teams cover cloud, software, SaaS and apps; AI, machine learning and data analytics; cybersecurity; telecoms; media and entertainment; and fintech. We work with organizations of every size, from fast-growing start-ups to mature multinationals, and with traditional businesses going through digital change as well as technology companies.

5What is the Amrop Digital Competency Model?

It’s our own framework for assessing the digital capabilities of senior leaders. Alongside our leadership assessment, it helps us measure how well a candidate understands technology, leads change and works with stakeholders. That gives you an objective, consistent way to compare candidates and see who is genuinely ready to lead your digital agenda.

6How can you help our board lead on AI and digital?

Every board needs enough digital understanding to ask the right questions. Our Digitization on Boards research, now in its seventh edition, explores the competencies leaders need to integrate AI successfully. We use those insights to help you appoint non-executive directors and executives who can challenge assumptions and turn technology into a strategic advantage.

7How do you find strong candidates when digital talent is so scarce?

Digital talent is in short supply, especially in AI, data and cybersecurity. Our global team has long-standing relationships with experienced executives, specialists and academics worldwide, combined with insight into local talent markets. That lets us reach strong candidates who aren’t actively looking and present a shortlist that reflects your culture as well as your technical needs.

8How will we stay informed during a search?

You’ll have a dedicated consultant team and access to our secure Client Portal, where you can follow the progress of your search and review candidate information in one place. We also hold regular updates with you, so you always know where things stand and can make decisions with confidence.

9What support do you offer after a leader is appointed?

We stay involved after the appointment. Our leadership advisory work can support your new leader and their team as they settle in, helping them build relationships, align on priorities and start delivering results. We check in with you through the transition so any early issues are spotted and addressed quickly.

10What happens if an appointment doesn’t work out?

Tell us as soon as you have concerns. We’ll work with you and your leader to understand what’s happening and whether extra support can resolve it. If the placement still isn’t right, we’ll talk openly about next steps, including any replacement search terms agreed at the start of your engagement.