our services

Here at Watson Ford, we believe that a high level of personal service, a strong dedication to quality, and a value-added approach should be the foundational elements of any executive search firm. Watson Ford consultants are conscientious, enthusiastic, and stand at the ready to surpass your expectations, guaranteeing successful search results. The thoroughness of our process ensures a strong slate of candidates for every assignment. Foremost of the guiding foundational principles of Watson Ford are adherence to the highest ethical standards, an unsurpassable level of professional service, an unmatched dedication to quality, and a unique ‘value-added’ approach.

Our extensive network of candidates and clients makes it easy for Watson Ford to successfully connect the right candidate to the right organization, ensuring an enduring working relationship. Our retained search, based in our global network, offers a targeted shortlist of pre-qualified candidates suited to your needs. Unlike some retained solutions, Watson Ford is thus able to better serve our clients by saving them the time and money it would take to search for suitable individuals. The contingent search option, a quick solution for filling lower level positions, is based in a proactive headhunting policy, identifying qualified candidates with speed and accuracy for our clients. Another advantage that Watson Ford provides for clients in this area is combining the extensive market mapping of our retained search with ongoing competitor analysis, market composition assessments, and compensation reports.

The objective is to align our firm with our clients’ needs in order to help them realize their human capital requirements for a particular project or initiative. Third, our contingent searches are underpinned by an active headhunting policy, leveraging from market maps whenever possible. Our consultancy service is similarly unparalleled. Watson Ford is unique in that we provide our clients with in-depth analysis and knowledge of their own market – and of their competition.

To this end, our consultants use very little information issuing from the public domain. Each project that we take on involves conducting a lot of candidates interviews and our detailed reports contain cross-referenced data that is not publicly available, therefore offering our clients greater insight into their competitors’ activities. The market analysis we develop is tailored to the specifications of our clients, allowing them to gain a market edge.

Thus, our other services include benchmarking and market analysis of competition by revenue; evaluation of competitor coverage models across different regions and products; both micro and macro client segmentation across the full suite of products by revenue, studies of the future direction, margin, product evolution and revenue generation across regions, products and markets; analysis of new ideas and areas of innovation within the remit of a given study and reports on the approaches taken by a client’s competitors; and a full structural and organizational analysis of competitors in client’s relevant peer groups.