Hire with confidence
In a highly competitive market, how you identify, hire, and retain the right people can have a huge impact on the success of your business. At Nordwand Group, we ask smart questions. We listen. We deep-dive into our networks. Above all, we champion finding the best talent in the market who can positively contribute to your culture and your bottom line.
We recruit all specialist permanent and contract roles across the IT and finance market sectors. For businesses looking for talent to fill their most senior roles, we also offer an executive search mandate service. We help you define what makes your company unique and attractive to applicants. We show you how to streamline recruitment processes that result in the best fit for your teams.
Our primary focus is on sourcing highly skilled talent, tailored specifically to meet the unique needs of our clients across various industries and Swiss locations.
Companies who work with Nordwand benefit from the detail of our market understanding. Our multilingual consultants are experts within specific areas of IT and Finance & Accounting with deep knowledge of the Swiss market.
By sticking to a streamlined, yet rigorous recruitment process, we consistently deliver top-tier talent across Switzerland.
Trust Nordwand to turn your recruitment challenges into success stories.
Our client services
- It and finance roles
- Permanent and contract placement services
- Contingent recruitment
- Mandates and retained searches
- Executive search and headhunting
- Consulting services (e.g. salary benchmarking and compensation models)
"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."
Our Sectors
We specialise in connecting Swiss companies with top-tier talent, drawing on our deep market insights and extensive professional networks.
Finance & Accounting
We specialise in placing highly qualified finance and accounting professionals at all levels. This includes audit, ex-Big 4, risk management, compliance, GAAP, and tax & treasury.
Information Technology
We bring technology and talent together across the IT spectrum, placing skilled candidates in areas such as data science, AI, FinTech, cyber security, software development, infrastructure, networking, testing/QA, engineering, and leadership roles.
Industries
We partner with organisations from a broad range of industries, including:
- Automotive,
- Banking & Financial Services,
- Business Services,
- Chemical / Pharma / Life Sciences,
- Consumer Goods,
- High-Tech,
- Insurance,
- Transportation & Logistics
"We can only grow by facing our fears."
Executive Search
We have deep expertise in retained executive search assignments across many different industries in Switzerland.
Our mission is to source outstanding leaders who align with our client’s values and strategic goals, ensuring the new recruit becomes a powerful asset to their business. We guarantee absolute confidentiality and work within timelines that suit your business needs.
Executive search services
- Strategic, in-depth review of business needs and industry trends
- Developing high-quality job specifications
- Comprehensive research, market mapping, and outreach process
- Detailed interview and assessment rounds to evaluate skills and experience
- Access to Orxestra© tools that provide a unique perspective on culture, performance, leadership, and team ‘fit’
- Compensation management and negotiation
- Onboarding and post-placement support methodology
Our executive search assignments are operated through our sister company, Transearch International Switzerland, a leading executive search organisation that covers all the major industry sectors across the world.
For more information about how the right leadership can change your business forever, contact:
TRANSEARCH International is a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants www.aesc.org, an organisation committed to the highest quality standards in executive search and leadership consulting.
Meet the Nordwand team
We are an international team of highly experienced talent acquisition specialists. Collectively, we have 125 years as a team recruiting for Swiss companies, and our consultants have an average industry tenure of 18 years.
We build lasting relationships, prioritising long-term engagements over short-term transactions. Because we’re invested in the success of building successful teams, we function as partners, not vendors.
Danny is a founding partner of the Nordwand Group AG and leads our Finance & Accounting practice. He also personally handles our Executive Search mandates across a broad range of functions and is responsible for the general management of the business.
Danny has over 20 years professional experience. He started his career in London where he held various Sales & Marketing Management roles before moving to Switzerland in 2001. Since then he has led and contributed to the profitable growth of several stock-exchange listed international recruitment and professional services firms.
Danny is a British and Swiss national and a graduate in European Business Studies from the Nottingham Trent University and has a post graduate diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He loves the mountains, both in summer and winter, and is a long-suffering West Ham United fan.
Martin is a founding partner of the Nordwand Group and leads our IT team. He personally serves a number of our key clients also for a range of Executive search mandates in both IT and Sales & Marketing functions. He is also responsible for the general management of the company.
He has worked in specialised recruitment since 2001 and has successfully built teams in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Alongside his team management responsibilities in success based recruitment, Martin was also actively involved in the development of a range of client specific recruitment solutions. Martin is a federally certified Sales Manager and has a professional certificate in Social Media Management, a theme which is ever more important in the recruitment industry.
In his free time Martin is a passionate football fan and loves sharing his statistical knowledge with anybody brave enough to listen.
We are a leading Swiss IT and finance talent acquisition partner, with a focus on senior and executive hires. Our goal is to help businesses achieve extraordinary outcomes by introducing them to the best talent in the Swiss market.
At Nordwand, we believe in our mission.
As our “north face” name suggests, we draw inspiration from stories of brave alpinists and explorers who made history conquering some of the most challenging, yet coveted, routes to the summit.
The north face symbolises courage, determination, and the drive for excellence. We draw inspiration from the remarkable achievements of those mountaineers who made alpine history by conquering the most challenging and sought-after routes. Their pioneering spirit and unwavering resolve serve as guiding principles for our daily work.
Just as alpinists forge new paths to the summit, we support companies and candidates on their journey to success - relying on clear strategies, perseverance, and a genuine passion for excellence.
