Board & Advisory

Our Board & Advisory service helps organisations find seasoned Chairs, Committee Chairs, Non-Executive Directors, and Trustees. We connect with executives seeking to expand their portfolio, as well as those transitioning from executive roles to non-executive careers.

Our Senior Interim practice allows us to quickly source seasoned, high-impact C-suite and senior professionals to assist clients with urgent, business-critical challenges or opportunities that demand specialised expertise.

WeConnect Energy is an internationally recognised specialist permanent recruitment agency

We know that the energy sector is one of the fastest evolving markets today, and with over 15 years of experience in this market, we source the right professionals to execute your organisation’s mission and goals.

Our permanent recruitment services can support and accelerate your search, and enable you to identify and hire specialists in Upstream, Corporate, Low Carbon and Renewables sectors across the globe.

Defining Your C-Suite Success Profile

To begin, WeConnect Energy work with you to establish a clear vision of what “perfect” looks like for your C-suite role, and then use it to evaluate candidates effectively.

We work with you to build a tailored C-Suite success profile that connects your organisation’s current and future strategic priorities with the capabilities essential for your next C-suite hires success—not just in terms of “what” the person needs to achieve, but “how” they will lead and “who” is the right fit for long-term success.

Our approach is thorough, focusing on the “what, how, and who” of effective leadership.

Our Profile-building Approach Draws on Four Core Insights:

Market Landscape: Insights into the external environment affecting your industry.

Organisational Context: A deep understanding of your unique culture, ecosystem, transformation goals, and needs.

Talent Pool: We find the best of the best, drawing from our established pool of candidates that we have built up over 15+ years of operating across the globe.

Seasoned Hiring Experts: Only our most experienced hires, including both our CEO and COO, work on sourcing C-Suite roles.

These steps help provide the board with a unified, unbiased framework for evaluating all CEO candidates - internal and external - based on shared criteria, covering experience, competencies, traits, drivers, and mindset and of course, cultural fit.

Sourcing & Building Your Perfect
Candidate Profile

We pride ourselves on the level of care, discretion and hands on management that we provide to our clients. We will work closely with you to fully understand your organisation, culture and needs, allowing us to support you in ways that go beyond just the search phase. Once we have created the perfect candidate persona, we:

1. Search for Your C-Suite Role

Our experts combine industry insight and research to identify and secure the best leader for your organisation, ensuring an efficient and seamless transition process.

2. Explore the Talent Pool

Through our deep networks, we source from a highly diverse range of top candidates to complement your sector. Leveraging both our extensive proprietary CRM data and targeted market research, including our highly regarded Salary Surveys, we have access to exceptional talent pools. We also use our Survey results to accurately benchmark compensation for executives in the energy industry - globally.

3. Assess and Compare

We evaluate candidates based on your success criteria, focusing on leadership qualities that naturally align with your goals. Using psychometric tools, including DiSC and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), we gain a thorough understanding of each candidate's potential fit within your organisation.

4. Selection and Offer Stage

Our experts provide you with precise and detailed recommendations on who is the perfect fit for the role. Once you have came to a decision, we manage the offer process end to end.

5. Onboarding for Success

We support a seamless transition with a detailed plan involving the board and outgoing CEO, enabling your new leader to make an immediate impact. From start to finish, we provide a bespoke solution to secure and develop the right C-suite candidate for your organisation, future-proofing your organisational needs.

Uncovering exceptional leaders in energy

Once we finish building the perfect profile type, and we have identified ideal candidates, we move them to our perfected C-level assessment stages.

Multiple comprehensive assessments provide the complete picture of each candidate, including their strengths and their potential gaps.

Specialist Energy Recruitment and Consultancy

The energy landscape is dynamic and ever changing. We are matchmakers, facilitators, and success-enablers. Our passion? Bringing people together, providing robust solutions for organisations, and crafting opportunities for the visionaries of today. That is why we don't just act; we act with precision, speed, and expertise.

Since 2008, WeConnect Energy have successfully provided recruitment solutions within various sectors.