Manufacturing is the backbone of Africa's economic diversification agenda. Our founder built businesses in manufacturing across multiple continents before founding this firm — that operational background gives us genuine understanding of what manufacturing leadership actually requires. We have placed industrial leaders across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Tanzania and India.
Roles We Place:
Case Study:
Food and beverage, building materials, chemicals, consumer goods production, automotive assembly, steel processing, plastics and packaging, pharmaceutical manufacturing and light industrial businesses. Our experience spans multinationals, regional manufacturers and local industrial groups across Sub-Saharan Africa. We also have strong depth in Indian manufacturing, where our core team is based and where we have completed placements across automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical and food processing sectors.
Through 15 years of proactive relationship-building within Africa's industrial leadership community. Most of our best manufacturing candidates are not actively looking. We reach them through direct networks built over years of placements, industry engagement and referral relationships within the manufacturing community. A database search for African manufacturing leadership will surface a fraction of the relevant talent. The rest requires direct relationship and proactive outreach.
Plant Managers and Operations Directors with large-scale African manufacturing experience, General Managers with P&L accountability for multi-site manufacturing businesses, Supply Chain Directors with African logistics and infrastructure experience, HSE Directors for industrial operations with international certification requirements, and Technical Directors for pharmaceutical and food manufacturing as regulatory standards rise. Engineering Directors for greenfield projects are also consistently in demand as infrastructure and construction investment continues across the continent.
Yes. We regularly run parallel searches across multiple markets for manufacturing groups expanding their African footprint simultaneously. Our regional presence across India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa means we can manage concurrent mandates across East, West and Southern Africa without compromising the depth of the search in any individual market.
