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HKR

HKR is a global HR partner that builds and operates remote offshore teams for U.S. ecommerce and technology companies. Founded in 2016, the company combines European roots with a U.S. presence to deliver long-tenured, brand-embedded teams that scale reliably and stay for years, not months. With roughly 230 employees and active teams across Romania, the United States, the Philippines, Ukraine, Serbia, South Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, Portugal, and Ireland, HKR provides an end-to-end model that covers recruiting, hiring as Employer of Record (EOR), and ongoing co-management. HKRs recruiters source, screen, and assess candidates to client standards; once selected, talent is employed compliantly by HKR, with international labor, tax, and payroll handled centrally in 150+ countries. Each engagement is supported by a dedicated Operations Manager and HR Business Partner who align performance, culture, and workflow, enabling consistently high results and minimal management overhead for clients. The firms sweet spot is customer experience, sales, marketing, and ecommerce operations, including multilingual CX across email, chat, and social, order processing, content moderation, affiliate program management, strategic outbound and account management, and marketing operations. Teams are fully embedded in clients tools such as Slack, Google Workspace, and leading CX platforms, start small, and scale quickly as demand grows. HKR reports over one million hours delivered, an average client relationship of more than three years, and an employee net promoter score of 78, signaling stable output and high retention. Trusted by growth brands and consumer tech platforms, HKR emphasizes data-driven management, flexible engagement terms, and a collaborative, feedback-rich operating cadence. For companies seeking a cost-efficient, low-risk path to global scale, HKR offers a durable alternative to short-term outsourcing: dedicated, co-managed teams that feel in-house while reducing cost and complexity.

RPOPayrolling/EORContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic Relations

HQNew York, United States

Retail Knowledge Sverige

Retail Knowledge Sverige is a specialist recruitment and staffing partner dedicated to the retail and broader consumer industry across Sweden and Denmark. Founded in 2002, the company supports Swedish and international retail chains and brand suppliers with end-to-end talent solutions spanning permanent recruitment, executive search and interim management, as well as flexible staffing and targeted job advertising. With deep sector insight built over more than two decades, Retail Knowledge covers store and head office functions alike—including store management and sales staff, merchandising and inventory, as well as HR, marketing, franchise, commercial leadership, and broader corporate management roles. The firm operates a competency-based process that emphasizes objectivity, diversity, and precision, incorporating logic and personality assessments early in selection, complemented by structured interviews, thorough reference checks with secure identification, and background screening. Their sizable, continually refreshed candidate network enables rapid delivery; for contingent needs, Retail Knowledge builds customer-specific staffing pools designed for speed, quality, and cost-efficiency, accessible via a 24/7 digital booking tool and offered on a fully variable cost basis with no fixed fees. Executive search assignments are handled with discretion and a tailored strategy, leveraging an exclusive network within the consumer industry to reach passive leaders and specialists who align with client culture and long-term goals. As an authorized recruitment and staffing company through the industry body Kompetensföretagen within Almega, Retail Knowledge adheres to recognized quality standards and collective agreements. The team prioritizes partnership and candidate experience, staying engaged from needs analysis to onboarding and post-placement follow-up to ensure lasting fit and performance. Whether scaling store teams, securing interim expertise within days, or appointing critical leaders, Retail Knowledge helps clients meet immediate operational needs while building capability for sustained growth in a fast-evolving retail landscape.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtFashion & ApparelConsumer ElectronicsLuxury GoodsHospitality & RetailSales & Business DevelopmentSenior Executives

HQStockholm, Sweden

Oddwork

Oddwork is a Swedish recruitment and employer branding agency that helps companies attract, recruit, and retain talent by uniting data-driven talent acquisition with creative employer brand strategy. Headquartered in Gothenburg with a Stockholm office, the firm positions itself as Sweden’s only combined employer branding and recruitment agency, delivering end-to-end solutions that span EVP development, creative concepts, content and campaign activation, and specialist hiring across finance, sales, marketing, HR, and tech. Oddwork’s approach emphasizes both competence and culture fit, leveraging experienced recruiters, copywriters, and employer branding specialists throughout the process and using modern AI-enabled tools to extend reach beyond traditional advertising. The agency operates a free Employer Brand Audit that applies its proprietary blueprint to evaluate a company’s careers site and identify strengths and opportunities, and it supports clients with insight-led programs through its Academy, events, and guides. Oddwork also convenes the EB Breakfast Club for employer branding and TA leaders and partners with platforms such as Adway and Life Inside (video platform) to enable scalable, personalized talent attraction. Recognized with industry accolades, including being named Årets Rekryteringsföretag, Oddwork has supported a diverse client roster that includes industrial and engineering leaders, consumer brands, financial institutions, technology firms, and logistics enterprises such as SAAB, LKAB, Volvo, Alfa Laval, Lantmännen, Axfood, Estrella, SEB, Maersk, Sopra Steria, and Evidensia. With a focus on measurable impact, the company aligns employer brand strategy with business objectives, builds targeted recruitment campaigns, and delivers specialist placements that stick. By combining research, creativity, and structured hiring, Oddwork enables organizations across Sweden to clarify their value propositions, reach the right candidates, and build stronger teams over the long term.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQGothenburg, Sweden

RetailExperts

Luxury Experts is a leading recruitment consultancy dedicated to the broader luxury sector in Switzerland, partnering with brands across retail, e-tailing, and wholesale to deliver specialized hiring solutions locally and internationally. The firm focuses on high-end consumer goods with particular strength in categories such as watches and jewellery and luxury accessories, supporting clients across corporate and store networks with talent needs ranging from junior associates to senior executives. Working on both exclusive (retained) and success-based mandates, Luxury Experts delivers permanent recruitment alongside interim solutions, aligning the search model to the complexity and urgency of each assignment. Its consultants bring deep sector knowledge and a passion for the luxury industry, enabling precise shortlists for front-of-house retail roles like sales advisors and sales floor staff, as well as headquarters functions integral to growth in premium and luxury environments, including commercial, merchandising, and e-commerce-oriented profiles. The team’s approach emphasizes close partnership, confidentiality, quality, and speed, underpinned by rigorous candidate assessment and a high-touch experience for both clients and job seekers. In addition to core recruitment, Luxury Experts supports candidates with job coaching services, helping them refine their presentation, interview performance, and career strategy to meet the demanding standards of luxury employers. This dual focus—client advisory and candidate development—supports sustainable placements that strengthen sales performance, elevate in-store service, and enhance brand representation across channels. With assignments spanning Switzerland and abroad, the firm adapts to market dynamics in retail, wholesale, and digital commerce, ensuring access to talent that understands luxury clienteling, operational excellence, and brand storytelling. By combining retained search precision with agile success-based delivery and interim staffing capability, Luxury Experts serves as a trusted, long-term talent partner to luxury houses and premium brands seeking measurable, lasting impact.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtTemporary StaffingFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsLuxury GoodsSales & Business DevelopmentHospitality & Retail

HQGeneva, Switzerland

Orus Executive Search

Orus Executive Search is a boutique Paris-based headhunting firm dedicated to identifying and securing executive directors and senior leaders for CAC 40 corporations, foundations, and start-ups, in France and internationally. The firm positions itself as a high-performance partner focused on precision, transparency, and a commitment to excellence, aligning client expectations with candidate ambitions to maximize human, social, and economic impact. Its sector coverage spans Industry, Luxury goods, Digital and Media, Emerging Technologies, Retail, E‑commerce and FMCG, while also handling strategic corporate functions. Orus applies a rigorous, direct-approach methodology: meeting HR leaders and operational stakeholders to deeply understand context and culture; formalizing a detailed brief that defines role requirements, competencies and human qualities; establishing an exclusive, time-bound search mandate with strong obligations of result and transparency; mapping the market, benchmarking performance, and analyzing compensation and talent dynamics; building a tailored research strategy and activating advanced sourcing tools to approach targets directly; conducting structured interviews, reference checks, and psychological assessments as needed; and delivering argued candidate dossiers that clearly position each profile against the brief. Throughout shortlisting, selection, negotiation and closing, the firm supports both client and candidate, then continues with post-placement integration follow-up and regular check-ins to ensure long-term success. Orus also engages with senior candidates through an Applicant Space designed to take stock of their careers, understand strengths and development areas, share suitable opportunities confidentially, and guide them toward roles that match their values and goals. Represented by Gaylord Josset, the firm operates bilingually across French and English markets, bringing the discipline of executive headhunting to leadership needs in technology-driven environments, consumer sectors and industrial ecosystems, and offering the discretion, agility and accountability expected from a dedicated executive search partner.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAutomotiveAerospaceDefense

HQParis, France

Michael J. Hawkins

Michael J. Hawkins, Inc. is a boutique executive search firm dedicated to the global foodservice, janitorial-sanitation (jansan), packaging, and facilities ecosystem. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Inverness, Illinois, the firm has completed more than 3,000 placements, partnering with manufacturers, distributors, equipment suppliers, chemical producers, packaging companies, and facility services providers that power the food-away-from-home and building care sectors. Recognized by industry leaders as a trusted brand for hard-to-find commercial and operational talent, Michael J. Hawkins, Inc. focuses on permanent and executive appointments spanning sales and business development, national accounts, marketing, product and category management, supply chain, operations, plant management, quality and safety, finance, and general management up to the C-suite. Their consultants combine deep domain knowledge with a disciplined search methodology, emphasizing rigorous discovery, transparent communication, targeted research, structured interviews, and precise reference validation to deliver shortlists that balance cultural fit and performance potential. For clients, the firm provides market intelligence, compensation guidance, and honest counsel throughout the hiring lifecycle; for candidates, it offers discreet career advisory support and long-term relationship building grounded in confidentiality and respect. With a national network and global reach across foodservice and jansan, the team understands the nuances of route-to-market models across manufacturer, master distributor, dealer, rep, and end-user channels, as well as the certifications, compliance, and safety priorities that define the sector. Whether the brief calls for a transformational executive to lead growth, a seasoned operator to elevate execution, or a commercially driven leader to expand share, Michael J. Hawkins, Inc. is committed to connecting the perfect client with the perfect candidate and sustaining results that endure well beyond the hire.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTravel & Tourism OperationsEvent PlanningFashion & Apparel

HQInverness, United States

Noto Group

Noto Group is a purpose-driven executive search and leadership advisory firm that partners with consumer brands committed to making a positive impact. Serving clients across North America and Europe from hubs in Portland, Seattle, New York, Nashville, and London, the firm blends the care and attention of a boutique with the reach and influence of a global search agency. Noto Group specializes in executive search and board recruiting, supported by flexible talent sourcing solutions for mid- and senior-level hiring and a comprehensive leadership consulting practice that includes Hogan-based leadership assessments, executive coaching, and team effectiveness programs to accelerate leader integration and team performance. Recognized as a Certified B Corporation for 13+ years, the company donates more than 1% of its revenue to environmental causes and builds enduring partnerships that generate more than half of its annual revenue from repeat clients. With 500+ executive roles filled and 200+ clients served, Noto Group is known for a rigorous, values-forward process that looks beyond resumes to align leadership capabilities, culture, and strategy. The firms sector expertise spans athletic and outdoor, fashion and lifestyle, food and beverage, health and wellness, travel and hospitality, and mission-driven nonprofits, helping organizations attract transformative leaders in general management and across key functions such as commercial, marketing, digital, product, operations, and people leadership. Founder and CEO Roy Notowitz extends the firms market insight through How I Hire, a podcast launched in 2019 that features notable executives, authors, and experts sharing practical guidance on building teams that last. Grounded in thoughtful discovery, transparent collaboration, and a deep network of purpose-led talent, Noto Group helps uncompromising brands build high-performing leadership teams and boards that can scale, adapt, and deliver lasting results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsEvent PlanningFundraisingSocial Services

HQPortland, United States

Yokly

Yokly is a US-based Remote Operations Partner that helps founders, creative agencies, franchise operators, and operations and compliance leaders reclaim time and scale with confidence by combining caring people, lockedin processes, and thoughtful automation. Headquartered in the United States with remote production teams in the Philippines, the company positions itself as the step beyond a VA shop and lighter than a traditional BPO, delivering dedicated remote support teams that are trained, supervised, and aligned to outcome-based SLAs. Through a clear service ladder, clients can start fast with Launcha five-day pilot that installs capacity with a dependable righthandprogress to Delegate for managed outcomes across Task, Connect, Create, and Books, and advance to Automate with AI and Dev to transform workflows into selfrunning systems. Each engagement includes SOPs, KPIs, QA sampling, and continuity safeguards, underpinned by enterprisegrade security, NDAs, and audited processes; plans start at $1,250 with flexible commitments and a 30day assurance to reinforce reliability. Whether the need is administrative assistance, sales support, customer service, bookkeeping, CRM management, or content and creative production, Yokly provides a dedicated team and U.S.-based client partnership to share the load so leaders can focus on the work only they can do. Clients report meaningful productivity gains and cost savings after onboarding, while benefiting from guaranteed continuity and trustgrade security. Beyond commercial outcomes, Yokly channels clientpartnered volunteer programs through Agapay Samaritans and teammates to deliver measurable social impact across communities in the Philippines. With a nationwide U.S. service footprint and an emphasis on managed teams over freelancer marketplaces, Yokly brings predictable, SLAbacked operations support to small and midsized organizations across professional services, real estate, retail, and morehelping them hire smart, scale fast, and build durable operating leverage.

Contract StaffingSOW/ProjectsPayrolling/EORManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Interior DesignFashion & ApparelFood & Beverage

HQTustin, United States

Ellavate

Ellavate is a people, talent, and culture partner that helps high-growth organizations attract, hire, develop, and retain exceptional teams while building sustainable cultures that scale. Centered on the belief that who you are as a person shapes how you show up as a leader, the firm blends strategic talent acquisition with talent management and leadership development to professionalize and transform workforces through hyper-growth and beyond. Ellavate supports clients across technology, media, and consumer sectorsincluding software, fintech, web3, aerospace, entertainment, ecommerce, apparel, luxury, and advertisingby designing pragmatic solutions that enable companies to compete for top talent and create environments where that talent thrives. Its Talent Acquisition offerings span executive and strategic hiring for critical roles, embedded and project-based recruiting support, and advisory designed to reduce bias and improve selection, while its Talent Management work focuses on culture-building, scalable people processes, and organizational effectiveness. Complementing this, Ellavates Talent Development and Coaching programs serve executives, hiring managers, new managers, and individual contributors, providing performance coaching to sharpen decision-making, influence, empathy, and self-awareness; talent acquisition coaching to eliminate bias while identifying and recruiting top candidates; cohort-based group coaching for accountability and peer learning; and career coaching to clarify purpose and navigate growth. With a senior team of operators and advisors experienced across fast-scaling environments, Ellavate combines data-informed practices with human-centered insight to deliver outcomes measured in quality of hire, leadership capability, and durable cultural health. The result is a balanced approach that meets immediate hiring needs while laying the foundationsprocesses, mindsets, and behaviorsfor long-term organizational success.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceGraphic DesignBroadcastingPublishing

HQLos Angeles, United States

O'CONNOR SEARCH ASSOCIATES

OConnor Search Associates (OSA) is a boutique executive search consultancy specializing in leadership and commercial talent for the Foodservice & Hospitality and Jansan/Sanitary Maintenance sectors. Positioning itself as a partner to private equity-backed, public, and privately held companies, OSA focuses on roles that drive growth, operational excellence, and cultural alignment, ranging from the C-suite and EVP level to upper and middle management, including CEO/President, COO, CFO, CHRO, EVP, VP Sales, VP Marketing, VP National Accounts, National Sales Director, Key/National Accounts leadership, Regional Sales leadership, HR Director, Territory Sales, Culinary Sales, Product Manager, Project Manager, and Purchasing Manager. The firms methodology is rooted in a systemic view of leveraged skills: identifying leaders with flexible, adaptable, and transferable capabilities who can excel across changing business models and, when appropriate, cross industry lines. OSAs process combines rigorous discovery with clients, targeted market research, direct sourcing, and structured, behavior-based interviewing to surface candidates with the right blend of leadership strengths, cultural fit, and knowledge/skill transfer for long-term retention. Known for close, consultative engagement with candidates, OSA provides resume counsel, interview preparation, and ongoing guidance throughout the hiring journey, and maintains strict confidentialitynever submitting a resume without prior permission. Clients benefit from a search partner attuned to the demands of digital transformation and competitive dynamics in markets such as foodservice distribution and operations, hospitality environments, and sanitary maintenance manufacturers and suppliers, where sales/channel strategy, national accounts, and product leadership are pivotal. With a reputation for sensing and seizing new opportunities on behalf of clients, OSA emphasizes speed without sacrificing quality and alignment, ultimately enabling organizations to secure leaders who can integrate quickly, build high-performing teams, and create enduring enterprise value.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHotel ManagementCulinary ArtsTravel & Tourism OperationsElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationFashion & Apparel

HQChicago, United States

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