Find the leader when the obvious candidates are not enough
A mining company usually knows what it needs long before it can find it. A chief operating officer with heap leach experience in West Africa. A country manager who has taken a permitting process from first application to approval. A project director who has carried a capex build past the point where most of them stall.
These people are already working; they are not looking, and they will not be found through advertising.
Lincoln Strategic is retained by mining, processing and raw materials companies to find them. We work at general manager level, above and immediately below it, across commodities and jurisdictions where search is genuinely difficult.
What it covers
Every search is retained and partner-led, from first briefing to signed contract:
- Board, executive and corporate appointments, from chief executive to functional leadership
- Country and regional leadership for operations away from the head office
- Project development leadership for capex builds, expansions and restarts
- Exploration leadership, including chief geologist and vice president exploration
- Talent mapping, so you can see the whole population for a role before committing to a search
- Market due diligence on a region, a commodity or a competitor’s bench, whether or not a hire follows
How it works
We start with the market rather than with a shortlist. Before discussing names, we agree what the role must deliver in its first two years, what it should pay against comparable roles in that jurisdiction, and which populations are worth approaching. That work often changes the brief, which is why we do it first.
A partner makes approaches in confidence, usually to people who are not in the market. We assess candidates against the brief and against the team they would join, using the Predictive Index behavioural assessment alongside structured interviewing.
You get a considered shortlist rather than a long list of under-researched possibilities.
Before the offer goes out
The higher the appointment, the greater the cost of getting it wrong. Our Integrity due diligence service, delivered through our partnership with SecureValue, tells you who you are really dealing with before you commit. It can run on a single finalist or on a whole shortlist.
Speak to your Lincoln Strategic contact about a search you have not been able to fill.
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