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As a founding member of AIMS International in 1992, Switzerland has been strongly involved in the organization’s development since the start.

As a member of the business community of a multilingual country, home to many global organizations and companies, AIMS International Switzerland has a long tradition of handling complex assignments, searching across multiple locations and dealing with different cultures whilst maintaining close proximity with customers thanks to a network of consultants throughout the country and perfect knowledge of local usages. We support our clients in the development of their leadership and organizational excellence.

GOING BEYOND EXECUTIVE SEARCH FOR OUR SWISS CLIENTS – A NEW BUSINESS MODEL FOR WHAT WE CALL TOTAL HR CONSULTING

For our Swiss clients, especially start-ups and SMEs, we have developed an innovative business model that combines responsiveness, flexibility and speed with the service level one expects from a first rate international HR-Consultancy. Contact us to know more.

Our Services

Executive Search

CUSTOMISED

AIMS International Switzerland’s Executive Search Services are tailored to the specific needs of each client. We combine local knowledge and and culture with global capabilities. All our consultants are senior executives with extensive line management experience who involve themselves deeply in every search and are supported by in-house research teams based in the different countries. This allows us to select the ideal team for you and develop a tailor-made search strategy for each assignment.

GLOBAL

At AIMS International Switzerland, we are active members of our global organisation’s practice teams and very much involved in assignments with an international scope together with our colleagues from other countries. At the same time, we are able to work in all of Switzerland’s national languages and know about the cultural specificities of the different regions.

PROFESSIONAL

Your AIMS Consultant personally knows his colleagues around the globe and will be able to select the right individuals to cover your specific need. He will also know whom to draw upon for expert industry or functional knowledge and be able to support you in the definition of the profile and organisational setup where required.

It is only if we truly understand your business, that we can be successful. This is why our process includes an in-depth analysis of the position to cover that allows us to brief our teams efficiently, inform our candidates in a way that will attract them to the role, while simultaneously enhancing our client’s reputation and enabling our consultants to conduct structured and competency-based interviews for a better selection. Where required, this can be further reinforced by an assessment conducted by our in-house Psychologist.

Internal & External Candidate Selection Support

Assessments can be a useful tool to complement the candidate evaluation by an external recruiter, confirm your choice in the selection of a candidate recruited directly or evaluate if an employee is fit for a new role within the company. While computerised tests have become the norm, there are some risks inherent to their use which can only be avoided if the results are debriefed and interpreted by a certified professional.

Catherine Librandi, our in-house psychologist and Member of our global Talent Management Practice, guarantees this. Thanks to her, we are able to evaluate the suitability of internal or external candidates for a position, be it as part of a search assignment carried out by us or as an independent third party. We are also able to develop and implement the right screening process for your wider recruitment needs.

Talent & Leadership Development

At AIMS International Switzerland, we want to help you grow your leaders. We can support your talent review process, coach and develop individual leaders and high potentials and boost the performance of teams. Thanks to the support of our global Talent Management Practice, we are in a position to cover your needs in Switzerland, but also globally, with state-of-the-art solutions.

Development & Implementation of Talent Management & HR Processes

We support our clients in the development of their HR capabilities, by looking at HR’s strategy, tasks and processes, by facilitating and inducing cultural change and training key HR personnel and managers accordingly.

Our library of HR and Talent Management processes includes:

HR strategy development and HR-competencies definition
Change programs & company culture
Organisational structures
Job mapping and specifications
Competency frameworks and libraries
Design and implementation of performance management and reward systems
Recruitment process implementation and training

Organisational & Business Development

Sometimes companies face organisational change. This can be limited in order to address a specific issue or wider and with many implications, like in the case of a merger, an acquisition or an expansion into a new territory or market.

As a global group of hundreds of senior consultants, we have gathered experience in virtually every industry and every market in the world. In the course of the assignments we have executed for our clients, we have also been confronted with every possible organisational model and every function/role a company can have.

Finally, we have access to senior executives and experts worldwide. We are therefore in a good position, not only to find, assess and develop executives and teams, but also organisations and markets, gather information, propose new models and solutions and populate them with the right people.

Things we do - examples of projects

FIND & GROW

We take on some of the most challenging search assignments for our clients, for example:

a local family textile business, over 100 years old, looking for a CTO to succeed its retired incumbent
a multinational automotive parts manufacturer, managed by a major private equity group, seeking a newly created global head of pricing with responsibility for over 30 brands, 10 plants and 50 countries
a major industrial multinational company, requiring a globally coordinated search assignment for a new SCM to be based in different locations across three continents

Our expertise goes beyond search assignments, to collaboration with clients to build and grow their organisation, as per some of the following organisational development assignments:

setting up a new European passenger car import organisation from design to execution and hiring of their CEO and staff
developing and implementing a new Human Resources strategy for a semi-public organisation, striving to create a culture shift and upgrade its talent management while living by its values that they are so proud of to that day
assessing for development a diverse Pan-European leadership team for a major global pharmaceutical company
designing a new performance management process for a trilingual Swiss subsidiary of a major international retail company with over 20 branches
evaluating jobs and benchmarking compensation of a top leadership team for a major start-up game industry changer, while managing the expectations of all internal parties involved

Our Team

At AIMS International Switzerland, you can rest assured that we will take good care of your assignments: all of our consultants speak several languages and have held senior line management positions in renowned companies before joining us. They are thus better able to understand your specific situation. Apart from managing the client and candidate relationship, our consultants also personally handle the greater part of the research and conceptual work which ensures a better alignment with client needs. Thanks to the global reach of AIMS International, we are also able to draw on a worldwide network of experts in almost all industries, functions & markets.

Grégoire Depeursinge

Managing Partner

Switzerland

Automotive, Industrial, Life Sciences

Catherine Librandi

Senior Consultant

Switzerland

Consumer, Talent Management

Mohamed Amr

Senior Consultant

Switzerland

Industrial, Life Sciences, Talent Management

Elsa Marie Gogniat

Administrator

Switzerland

Nadja Pentz

Administrator

Switzerland

Local offices

AIMS Switzerland Fribourg
Chemin de la Fenettaz 10

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+41 26 322 00 86