ContactX

Five teams, and each one only recruits in its own industry.

We place senior and niche talent for large Indian and multinational companies. Every search is run by people who recruit in one industry and nothing else. On the roles that are really hard to fill, that’s what makes the difference.

Founded
2003, in Mumbai
Desks
Finance, Audit & Risk · Technology & IT · Manufacturing & Engineering · FMCD / FMCG · KPO & Analytics
Clients
National and multinational companies

We started out broad and got more specialised over time.

We got specialised because of what clients kept asking us for.

  1. 2003

    We opened in Mumbai in 2003, a small team recruiting for whoever needed the help, at any level and in any industry. The client list grew steadily over those first few years.

  2. As we grew

    Then we started working with bigger companies, Indian and multinational, who expected a lot more. Most of the repeat work came from the same few sectors: audits and assurance, advisory and taxation, business and technology consulting. They were growing fast and they could not find the people they needed.

  3. Today

    So we built the firm around them. Each of those fields got its own team, people who had already worked in that industry for years. That is still how we run.

Your brief goes to people who already work in that industry.

Each team recruits in one industry and nothing else. They know how those businesses work, where the skills are short, and what a good candidate actually looks like. You don’t have to explain the brief twice, and the shortlist comes back short.

It’s also why the harder jobs tend to come to us.

  • One role

    One role, a very small pool

    Senior and niche searches where the shortlist has to be right, not long. Most of the right people are not even looking.

  • Ramp-up

    Several roles, one deadline

    Growth hiring, new sites, ramp-ups with a deadline. We run the whole thing as one project.

  • Backfill

    A critical role, already empty

    Someone has left and the work cannot wait. Speed matters as much as fit.

Twenty years, in three numbers.

Three figures we stand behind, and the kind of companies behind them. Senior search is confidential, so we name the sectors and the roles rather than the clients.

Opened in Mumbai

2003

Two decades of specialist search from one city.

Careers shaped

15,000+

Across the five fields, from specialist right up to CXO.

Organizations partnered

100+

Teams and whole functions staffed.

The companies we work with are hard to hire for.

Large businesses with high standards of their own, including global leaders in the sectors here. The work runs from a single niche role to hiring a whole team for a new site.

  • Audits and Assurance
  • Risk Advisory
  • Technology and Management Consulting
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing

We have been doing this from Mumbai since 2003, and if you’ve got a role that has been hard to fill, that is exactly the kind of thing we’d like to hear about.