Going beyond traditional recruitment, our executive search services in Vietnam strategically identify, vet, and engage top-tier, passive candidates for your most critical C-suite and senior leadership roles. Partner with us to build the future of your company.
Beyond Recruitment: A Strategic Partnership for Your Most Critical Hires
CNK offers executive search in Vietnam, specializing in identifying senior leaders who fit both corporate strategies and culture. We support companies in building effective management teams and smooth operations, creating a solid foundation for sustainable growth.
Executive Recruitment: Why Standard Methods Fail for Senior Roles
General staff hiring and C-suite recruitment are two entirely different domains. When companies apply traditional processes to C-suite hiring, they often fail to recruit executives because such methods cannot meet the unique requirements of senior roles:
- Comprehensive leadership capabilities required: Senior executives must be able to plan, manage, and lead teams. However, traditional hiring processes often stop at CV screening and basic interviews, failing to assess true leadership abilities.
- Lack of access to passive candidate sourcing: Most senior executives fall into the category of passive candidate sourcing – they rarely apply publicly, making it difficult for companies to reach them through traditional recruitment methods.
- Insufficient evaluation of cultural fit: A leader with strong expertise but unable to align with the company’s operations can cause internal conflicts. Unfortunately, traditional hiring processes often overlook this critical factor.
- Confidentiality not guaranteed: When hiring senior leaders, organizations must ensure absolute confidentiality to avoid impacting current employees and the market. Traditional methods often expose sensitive information, creating instability within the organization.
Our Commitment to Executive Search: Aligning Talent with Your Vision
CNK Vietnam understands that selecting senior leaders is a critical step for the future of any organization. Therefore, we focus on a clear and targeted selection process: identifying the right executive talent pool, conducting in-depth resume analysis, and performing leadership assessment to find the executives capable of taking on the organization’s most significant responsibilities.
What sets CNK apart is not only the ability to find candidates with the right skills but also those who can align with the corporate culture. An outstanding leader is someone who can engage long-term, inspire teams, and maintain strategic direction. We place this factor at the core of our executive search process to help companies minimize risks in senior leadership decisions.
With a commitment to sustainable partnership, CNK Vietnam delivers effective C-suite recruitment solutions that not only fill positions but also build leadership teams fully aligned with the company’s vision and strategic objectives. This foundation enables organizations to maintain a competitive advantage and achieve stable operational excellence.
The Core Benefits of Our Executive Search Services
Unlocking the Passive Executive Talent Pool
Most senior executives do not actively seek new positions and rarely appear on public job platforms. As a result, traditional recruitment methods often miss the highest-quality candidates, creating the risk that companies cannot find the right fit for critical leadership roles.
CNK provides senior recruitment services in Vietnam, focusing on C-suite recruitment through detailed market research and an extensive professional network. We directly engage and evaluate each candidate based on experience, leadership assessment, and ability to align with the corporate culture, helping companies connect with the right senior executives.
Ensuring a Rigorous and Unbiased Leadership Assessment
Leadership assessment is a key factor in selecting the right candidates for senior management positions. CNK Vietnam has a team of experienced search consultants capable of conducting a thorough analysis of each candidate’s background and capabilities. We apply a comprehensive evaluation process that focuses on managerial experience, decision-making ability, and team leadership skills, ensuring outcomes that accurately reflect strategic execution capacity and alignment with the position’s requirements.
Maintaining Absolute Discretion with a Confidential Search
CNK conducts senior executive recruitment through a Confidential search, carefully controlling all information related to the position and candidates. CNK’s team of experts directly contacts candidates with discretion, manages the entire communication process, and safeguards data while thoroughly evaluating each candidate’s skills and experience. This approach allows companies to avoid internal disruption risks, access high-quality senior executives, and maintain organizational credibility throughout the recruitment process.
Our Proven Executive Search Methodology: The Retained Search Model
The retained executive search model is a senior recruitment approach in which CNK takes full responsibility for the entire process of identifying candidates for a specific position within a company. This model focuses on accessing both active job seekers and potential passive candidates. CNK combines deeply specialized experts, an extensive professional network, and a thorough evaluation process to ensure the selection of candidates who best match the required skills, experience, and leadership qualities for the organization.
Phase 1: Deep-Dive Consultation and Strategic Profile Development
In the initial phase, CNK Vietnam conducts direct strategic sessions with clients to gain a clear understanding of their recruitment needs, corporate culture, development strategy, and the specific competency requirements for the senior position to be filled. Based on the information collected, CNK’s team develops a strategic candidate profile, identifying the necessary skills, experience, and qualities required to assume the leadership role and contribute effectively to the organization. This strategic profile serves as a guiding framework for the entire search process, including defining the target talent pool, approaching both active and passive candidates, and conducting comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities and experience. This process ensures that every proposed candidate aligns with the company’s needs and long-term development strategy.
Phase 2: Mapping the Market for Top Executive Talent
In the second phase, CNK conducts in-depth market research to understand industry structures, recruitment trends, salary ranges, benefits policies, and competitor positioning. This research is carried out to establish competitive benchmarks for the position to be filled while providing a comprehensive view of the accessible senior talent pool.
Based on the results of the market research, CNK develops a Talent mapping system to systematize and evaluate potential candidates. CNK’s Talent mapping includes the following elements:
- Professional competency profile
- Management experience
- Career achievements
- Degree of cultural fit
- Market positioning
The Talent mapping enables CNK to strategically guide the approach and selection of senior executives effectively, focusing on individuals who provide long-term value to the organization.ly guide the approach and selection of senior executives effectively, focusing on individuals who provide long-term value to the organization.
Phase 3: Candidate Engagement, Vetting, and Shortlisting
After conducting market research and developing the Talent mapping, CNK proactively contacts and engages potential candidates. Each candidate is thoroughly evaluated by CNK’s experts in terms of experience, professional competencies, and suitability for the leadership role. Through this vetting and search process, CNK shortlists the most promising candidates who best meet the company’s requirements.
Phase 4: Offer Management, Negotiation, and Onboarding Support
Once the company has selected the right candidate, CNK acts as a direct liaison between the organization and the candidate. We coordinate interview scheduling and facilitate two-way communication, ensuring that the offer process and negotiations balance the interests of both the company and the candidate. After the candidate accepts the position, CNK continues to provide necessary support to both parties, helping ensure a smooth start and fostering long-term engagement.
Our Headhunting Services: Specialized C-Suite Recruitment
With strong expertise in senior executive recruitment, CNK provides leadership and senior management recruitment services across various domestic and international industries. From technology, finance, and manufacturing to consumer goods and retail, we have a deep understanding of the specific requirements of each sector, enabling companies to quickly access outstanding candidates who align with their long-term development goals.
Technology and Digital Transformation
In the technology and digital transformation sector, CNK flexibly meets various senior leadership recruitment needs of companies, from digital strategy to IT systems management. Some of the senior leadership positions CNK has successfully connected include:
- Head of Engineering
- Chief Innovation Office
- CPO – Chief Product Officer
- Director / Head of IT Infrastructure
Financial Services & FinTech
In the financial services and fintech sector, CNK supports companies in sourcing leadership teams capable of managing financial strategy, controlling risks, and driving innovation in digital financial services. With practical experience, we have built an extensive professional network, successfully connecting senior management positions such as a future CEO for a major fund, Risk Manager, and Investment Manager.
- Risk Manager
- Fintech Product Manager
- Finance Manager
- Investment Manager
Manufacturing and Supply Chain
In the manufacturing and supply chain sector, CNK’s team of experts has assisted numerous companies in finding senior management positions capable of optimizing production processes and managing operations, thereby enhancing production efficiency and global competitiveness. Representative positions include:
- Production Supervisor Manager
- Senior Production Development Engineer
- Production Project Manager
- Head of Quality Assurance
- CSCO (Chief Supply Chain Officer)
Consumer Goods and Retail
CNK’s experts, with extensive recruitment experience, have successfully helped numerous companies fill key positions in the consumer goods and retail sector, contributing to market share growth and building sustainable competitive advantages. Some representative positions include:
- Retail Director
- Supply Chain Director
- CMO – Chief Marketing Officer
- E-commerce Director
- Regional Director
More Than a Headhunting Firm: A Partner in Growth
As a leading executive search firm, CNK is not just a provider for immediate needs, but also partners with companies to build long-term human resource strategies. Unlike other search firms, for foreign corporations planning to expand in Vietnam, CNK acts as an exclusive partner, taking full responsibility for sourcing and selecting a wide range of positions, from key leadership roles to specialized management. This includes strategic board search assignments. Partnering with CNK helps companies optimize the recruitment process and maintain stability within their organizational structure.
Aiding Your Long-Term Succession Planning
CNK is not just one of the headhunting firms that meet immediate recruitment needs, but also partners with companies to build long-term human resource strategies. In particular, for foreign corporations planning to expand in Vietnam, CNK acts as an exclusive headhunter, taking full responsibility for sourcing and selecting a wide range of positions, from key leadership roles to specialized management. Partnering with CNK helps companies optimize the recruitment process and maintain stability within their organizational structure.
The Importance of Cultural Fit in Executive Hiring
At CNK, we believe that a suitable leader must not only possess professional expertise but also align with the values and unique identity of the organization. In executive hiring, cultural fit is always considered a key criterion alongside skills and experience. As a result, the candidates we present not only meet the job requirements but also contribute to building engagement, maintaining stability, and driving the company’s long-term growth.
Ready to Appoint Your Next Leader?
Succession planning is an early preparation step that ensures a company always has a ready leadership team, maintaining continuity in management and supporting sustainable growth. Our work often extends to finding the next CEO through a disciplined search.
Schedule a Confidential Consultation with Our Experts
Start building your succession planning today with the support of CNK’s team of experts. We are committed to providing confidential services, focusing on identifying, attracting, and connecting strategic talent – individuals ready to assume your next leadership role. We understand the sensitivity of this critical search and are one of the executive search firms that prioritizes discretion above all.
CNK Consulting Vietnam
Hotline: +84 961 393 798
Email: info@cnk-consulting.com.vn
Address: 9 No. 07 New urban area Bac Dai Kim Expansion, Dinh Cong, Hoang Mai, Hanoi
Your organization’s future begins with the leader you choose today. Our executive search process is designed to find that exact talent. Let’s begin your strategic executive search together.