The Client
Part of the Interpublic Group, Mediabrands is one of the world's largest media service firms providing strategic services and consultancy in the areas of traditional and non-traditional media. They deliver business results for their clients based on integrated communications strategies, intelligent and innovative media campaigns and unbeatable media buying.
The Role
Working closely with European CFO, and with dotted reporting into the Global CIO for Mediabrands in New York, the newly created European IT Director role will instigate and manage a number of process and systems improvement programmes aligned to the integration of the 4 Mediabrands businesses. At the same time the IT Director will be responsible for ensuring that IT service level expectations are met across the region.
The Result
This was one of the most painless searches I have ever been involved with – they took time to understand the brief and added value in the process, helping me to articulate what I needed. Communication was efficient, honest, regular – they were chasing me to talk and provide updates, rather than the other way around. I was presented very early on with an excellent benchmark candidate (who ultimately became the successful candidate), although all of the candidates on the short-list (6) met the brief. In the end, we had the luxury of being perfectly happy to offer to either of two final candidates, who represented very different ends of the spectrum. They also managed the candidate experience extremely well from what I can tell – the process did get a little drawn out towards the end, largely due to issues on our side as the client, and they managed to retain the engagement and interest of the two final preferred candidates until such time as we had an offer accepted from our preferred candidate. All in all, excellent – I would absolutely use them again if a similar type of vacancy arose within our business.
Alastair Procter, HR Director, IPG Mediabrands
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