Savannah Group – Driving Business Growth via Strategic Advice, Data-Led Insights and Building Teams of Outstanding People

Transformational leadership is fast becoming one of the core facets of a desirable senior executive, as businesses look to build on their history while creating a new vision for the future. Leaders need to think, act and react differently to be successful and relevant in an ever-changing world. This is when executive search platform comes in. The executive recruiters are skilled specialists who identify and place the best-fit candidates for your management team. With their extensive network of professional contacts, best-in-class recruitment strategies, and years of refined experience, executive search firms are adept at adding value to your organization’s upper-level management team.

Savannah Group is one such global executive search, interim management, consulting, and technology firm specializing in board appointments, functional C-Suite appointments, talent strategy and leadership identification and assessment products. They empower business leadership teams by helping them acquire proven leaders that enable and deliver short-term and long-term transformation. Core to the philosophy at Savannah is their strong belief that businesses need transformational leaders now more than ever. Through their work with leading Fortune 500, FTSE 250 and Private Equity backed firms along with a robust assessment methodology designed for the modern business environment, they have developed a high-quality range of services that have earned us a reputation for providing organizations with the proven transformational leadership they need; whatever stage they are at in their journey.

Offering Classic Executive Search Services and Solutions

Executive Search & Recruitment: Having identified and secured high-performing executives for over 20 years, Savannah's global executive search service is underpinned by deep functional and industry knowledge. They uniquely combine the agility and dedication of a boutique firm with the resources and global capability of larger firms. Their personal, data-driven approach brings fresh ideas and enthusiasm to every search. Each of their executive headhunting consultants has 15+ years of experience and expertise in building networks. Their credibility in their specialized areas is second to none, which is evident in the high levels of confidence and trust they enjoy with clients and candidates alike. They believe the team you hire should be the team that delivers your assignment and their CEO follows up with clients to get feedback on the experience.

Interim Management: Transformational leadership and the ability to keep up with the rapid pace of business change have never been more critical. Their executive interim management service provides flexible access to world-class leaders. From transformation and growth to crisis management and turnarounds, the network of interim managers offers impactful leadership capability quickly and effectively. The trusted, hand-selected pool of interim managers is the top 10% of candidates on the market, each with considerable corporate transformation experience. To enter their network they must meet stringent requirements, demonstrating a high-level of experience and a proven track record. With such high-caliber talent on standby, their typical turnaround from briefing to shortlist is one to four days, meaning rapid deployment into your business. Typical assignments range from 6 to 24 months and depending on the project their interims can be deployed inside or outside of IR35.

Management Consulting: Develop your future strategy and the roadmap to successfully execute it. Savannah builds small, specialist teams of consultants that bring expertise from the leading strategy consultancies and advisory firms to help you solve your challenges, improve resilience, better connect with customers and drive future sustained growth – fast. With deep expertise in HR advisory, digital advisory and financial advisory, their expert consultants are individually selected and matched to your organization's target business outcomes. In addition, they can scale resources quickly in response to the changing needs of your project. They will work with you to shape the most suitable team structure to maximize results throughout your program.

Leadership Engagement, Assessment & Onboarding: The talent market is highly competitive, with in-demand candidates approached on a regular basis. To outperform their competitors, employers need to be positioning the opportunity to work for them in the best light, as well as adopting a thorough assessment process that looks at the right things, and an optimized onboarding process which helps new hires hit the ground running. The firm has developed a suite of capabilities in all three of these areas. They can be included as part of a hiring process or provided as standalone services to complement existing hiring activity.

The Dynamic Leader

Katrina Cheverton is the Chief Executive Officer of Savannah Group. She trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse and worked in both Assurance and Consulting. She subsequently joined Marks and Spencer and held several senior finance and operational roles both in the UK and overseas, before joining Savannah as FD and now CEO. At Savannah Katrina is responsible for ensuring that their business makes a difference to the clients, colleagues, and partners. She is delighted to be leading such a high caliber, friendly group of professionals. Savannah prioritizes solution focused, quality delivery to meet the needs of the clients, whilst providing excellent candidate care; the level of teamwork to achieve that is unparalleled.

"Our global model ensures that the partner who you have the relationship with, and is best placed to deliver the best results, runs the search from start to end, with the support of local market knowledge where it’s needed."