Fractional Executive Search.

The right leader, for exactly as long as it matters.

Fractional executive search for Manila. We search our curated collective for the senior leader your business needs, vet them, and match them to your brief. They then embed for the share of the week the work calls for, whether you run a GBS centre in Bonifacio Global City, a consumer brand selling across the archipelago, or a founder-led scale-up in Makati getting ready to raise.

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800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksFrom brief to an embedded leader
30–60%Less than a full-time hire
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Governance as a service

We do not make an introduction and step away

Every engagement comes with more than one leader. Behind your executive sits the wider collective and our own governance: a clear brief at the start, a set rhythm of check-ins, and early word if the work drifts. The executive holds the decisions in their domain and owns the outcomes. We hold the structure around them, so a growing Philippine business gets senior leadership with a steady frame, not a loose arrangement.

An operator, not an adviserYour leader takes a seat in the management team and runs their function, judged on what changes in the business rather than on reports. We match for Philippine operating experience where the brief needs it, from export enterprises to shared services at scale.
A company-to-company engagementYou contract with the executive's entity for a defined scope, on our standard one month's notice. Nothing about the arrangement adds a permanent salary to your payroll.
The roles we match

A full C-suite, on the terms a growing business needs

We focus on the leadership functions that move a company forward. Start with one, or draw on the whole collective.

Proven leadership

Our executives have led at the companies you know

AccentureAmazonAmerican ExpressAntlerAppleBPBarclaysBoeingEmirates GroupErnst & YoungGEGoogleHSBCIBMJ P Morgan ChaseL'OréalLinkedIn
McKinsey and CompanyMercedes-Benz AGMicrosoftMoneyGram InternationalNestle S.A.NikeOraclePricewaterhouseCoopersProcter & GambleSAPSalesforceShell InternationalSiemensStandard Chartered BankThe Coca-Cola CompanyUnileverY Combinator
Where we are brought in

A leader for the moment in front of you

Most engagements begin with a moment: a departure to cover, a raise to close, a market to enter, a business to turn around. Find the one that fits.

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The Manila commercial case

Senior leadership, without the permanent payroll

Fractional is how our executives work: senior, embedded, and paid for the hours the role needs rather than a full-time seat. Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, and in the Philippines a permanent senior hire also brings a statutory payroll load of its own. That puts the calibre of leadership once kept for the big family groups and multinationals within reach of a growing Manila business, whether the moment is a raise, an incentive registration, tighter margins or a management team that has outgrown its founders.

Brief a search
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Searched and vetted for you

We run the search inside our collective and put forward a leader we have already vetted, matched to your sector and stage.

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No recruitment fee

The search itself carries no recruitment fee. You engage the executive's time, business to business.

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No permanent headcount

Senior capability arrives without a new line on the payroll or a role to unwind if priorities change.

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Hours that match the work

Typically 4 to 24 hours a week, set by the brief. Busier in a fundraise or a centre launch, lighter once the systems hold.

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One month's notice

Scale the engagement up or down, or bring it to a close, on one month's notice either way.

How an engagement works

From the moment to the match, in weeks

Brief us on the leadership gap and we take it from there: a Series A finance lead, a COO who has run a delivery centre, a board-ready CFO for a family group. Most of the matching work happens in that first conversation.

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Tell us the moment

Share where you need leadership: a finance lead departing, a raise ahead, operations outgrowing the founder.

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A working conversation

We talk through the brief and sharpen the requirement together, so the match is right.

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The match

We search our collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives for the closest fit, and you choose.

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Deployment

Your leader embeds within weeks, holds the decisions in their domain, and gets to work.

Common questions

The questions founders ask first

We are a fractional executive search firm. We find, vet and match senior leaders, usually with 15 or more years of operating experience, from our curated collective. Your executive then embeds for part of the week, holds the decisions in their function and is measured on outcomes rather than hours. In Manila that often means a GBS or BPO operator adding functional depth, a consumer business professionalising, or a startup in Bonifacio Global City getting investor-ready.

Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, and you pay no recruitment fee for the search. The contract sits between your company and the executive's entity, invoiced for the time agreed, which is usually 4 to 24 hours a week over six to twenty-four months. Our standard notice is one month's notice, so you can adjust the scope as the business changes.

Built for Manila businesses that need board-level capability before a full-time hire at that level makes sense: consumer and retail brands building management discipline, IT-BPM and GBS operators moving up the value chain, export enterprises, family-owned groups bringing in professional management, and startups preparing a raise or a move into the wider region. What they share is a decision big enough that the right leader matters more than the cost of one.

It fits well. A foreign founder or joint-venture partner often needs a senior leader who knows how Philippine businesses run, from incentive registrations to family-group partners, without relocating someone from head office. We match for that experience, and the engagement runs company to company on a defined scope, so the leadership sits alongside whatever ownership structure you already have.

A consultant studies the problem and hands back advice. An interim usually fills a seat full-time for a short spell. The executive we match joins your management team for part of the week, takes ownership of a function, and stays for as long as the leadership moment lasts, with our governance around the engagement throughout.

Get started

The home of fractional leadership.

Brief a search: tell us the leadership gap in your Manila business and we will match a vetted executive from our collective within weeks.

Find your leader