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Our Expertise
Leighton Baker serves as a strategic partner to some of the world’s premiere commodities trading companies. Our executive search and professional recruitment team helps address strategic and operational challenges through proven, results-oriented hiring across the commodities markets. Our work is based on depth of relationships and industry expertise informed by decades of work with market leaders.
Executive Search
Our strength is to integrate with clients and become a voice for the organization to the candidate market. By partnering with our clients we understand their existing talent and needs, identify future leaders outside the organization, provide research to retain rising superstars, and develop actionable hiring strategies.
As industry requirements continue to advance, the need for high performing talent remains constant. Our process creates unrivaled access to active and passive candidate pools. We maintain a repeatable research methodology combined with our industry-specific expertise to recruit professionals of all levels and functions for our clients. We work with clients to anticipate future needs and skills shortages the market will face.
With the industry’s most comprehensive data on performance, compensation and organizational structures we analyze and present candidate strengths, weaknesses and portability for every search.
Our Process:
Establish search priorities
Participate with the client in setting skills, knowledge and abilities required for specific role.
Research strategy
Identifying candidates with relevant skill-sets and qualifications through our proprietary database as well as our network of third-party contacts to reference and qualify prospects. Develop a long list of prospects best suited for the role, with the goal of providing real options for clients to consider.
Candidate evaluation
Approach potential candidates to test their interest in the role, using our reputation and ability to deliver client’s message to the relevant talent pool. Conduct interview screenings to build comprehensive candidate profiles for the client.
Candidate presentation
Develop a short list of candidates with the qualifications and interest in the position. We then work with clients on scheduling interviews and provide complete feedback.
Search completion
After the client has selected its preferred candidate, we will assist in offer process and other terms to help finalize the search. As importantly, we will work with candidates through the resignation and transition process.
Market Research
Through our deep relationships in the energy and commodity space, we are able collect and collate large amounts of market intelligence data. We have designed projects for clients to include trend analysis on compensation, performance, revenue vs. costs, organization structure and diversity benchmarking. We assist clients in understanding the competitive landscape in which they operate in so they can use that information to better position themselves for future success.
Consulting and advisory work for our clients include:
Compensation analysis
Competitive pay benchmarking using base salary, incentive compensation, deferred compensation and benefits. Incorporating all aspects of reward, including often-overlooked components within incentives and benefits.
Work collaboratively with clients to design benefit and incentive programs that resonate and motivate. Strengthening the link between rewards and employee performance.
Diversity studies & inclusion
Diversity in gender, ethnicity, and backgrounds brings together different insights and perspectives that uncover new paths to solving market problems. In addition to making our best effort to include a diverse slate of candidates in every search we take on, we also work with clients on identifying diverse talent for particular functions or market sectors.
In the commodities markets that connect across cultures and continents, access to a diverse workforce is essential. We work with clients to develop diversity and inclusion processes within their respective organization through comprehensive channels including external hiring through executive search.
Competitor Analysis & Organization structures
Conduct studies with respect to how competitors are structured. Allowing our clients to identify opportunities and threats, to develop comprehensive hiring/retention plans and to maintain market share and financial stability.
Review of market performance and competitors trends. Including case studies to identify changes to competitors commercial activities, identify new entrants or find organizational synergy for M&A or team hiring opportunities.