C-Suite & Leadership Search.
SYMPHONI HR is a Mumbai-headquartered executive search firm, established in 2003. C-Suite & Leadership Search is our retained practice — more than 5,000 C-suite and senior mandates closed for 300+ clients, at an average 68 hours to first shortlist.
C-Suite & Leadership Search is our retained practice for board, CEO and CXO appointments — the searches where a wrong hire is measured in years, not quarters.
Every mandate is led end-to-end by a Senior Partner, mapped by ST★R research before any approach is made, and run against a written success profile agreed with you at the start.
Where we go deep.
Leadership hiring across executive and senior management levels.
CEO, CFO, CHRO, CTO, CMO, COO and CRO
Managing Director, Executive Director, Director, and Vice President
Finance, Strategy, Operations, Risk, Technology, HR, Legal, and Marketing
Business Heads, BU Leaders, and Transformation Executives
Our approach.
We begin with the people who will live with the appointment: what the seat must deliver in its first year, where the last incumbent fell short, and what the board will not trade away. That conversation becomes a success profile, a mapped target list and a search strategy — agreed before anything moves.
Delivery is deliberately narrow. A partner carries a small number of concurrent mandates, the shortlist arrives in a 68-hour average, and every name comes with our written assessment against the brief — what they bring, what they lack, and what it will take to move them.
What we deliver.
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Board, CEO and CXO appointments across all nine industries we serve
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A written success profile and full market map before the first approach
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Ten calibrated profiles, each with our assessment against the brief
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Offer, negotiation and transition managed through to a settled start
Questions, answered.
What is the difference between retained and contingent executive search?
Retained search is an exclusive, partner-led engagement built on original research; contingent recruiting races a database against other agencies. For board, CEO and CXO seats the difference shows in quality and confidentiality — we explain the trade-offs in plain terms in our guide, Retained vs contingent search.
How confidential is a CXO search with SYMPHONI HR?
Completely. Sensitive mandates are approached by the consultant who runs the search — never a sourcer with a template — every conversation represents your business the way you would represent it yourself, and shortlists move under agreed confidentiality from brief to offer.
Which executive search firm in Mumbai should we consider for C-suite and leadership search?
Companies comparing executive search firms in Mumbai usually weigh three things: research depth, who actually runs the search, and how much business comes back. SYMPHONI HR is a Mumbai-headquartered executive search and specialist recruitment firm, est. 2003 — 5,000+ C-suite and senior mandates, an average shortlist in 68 hours, 82% offer acceptance and 97% of business from repeat clients and referrals.
How quickly can we expect a shortlist for C-suite and leadership search?
Our average across 5,000+ senior searches is a calibrated shortlist in 68 hours — ten profiles, each read against a written success profile before it reaches you, with our assessment of what each candidate brings and what it would take to move them.
Ready to begin the search?
SYMPHONI HR · EST. 2003 · MUMBAI