MRG People Asia - An Introduction to our Services

MRG People Asia - An Introduction to our Services

An Introduction to Our Services

The Story So Far... The Management Recruitment Group was launched in 2007 in Twickenham, London, by CEO and founder Simon Cheshire. Focusing on senior appointments in the Rail, Mobility and built environment, Simon wanted to create a service which was of a high level, working closely with clients to really understand the business and culture in order to make the best senior appointments. With a highly successful track record, MRG quickly went on to open offices in London Bridge and Manchester, widening their reach to the North of England. Entrepreneur and recruitment business owner Olly Plitz started his own business in the UAE 14 years ago, and has been operational in KL for over 10 years, launching his own company PPA Global Search in 2018. MRG were suitably impressed with Olly’s reputation in Kuala Lumpur and were delighted at the opportunity to work alongside him, expanding their remit into the Asian and middle east markets.

Our Areas of Expertise

Sectors

• Overall Built Environment • Construction • Real Estate Developments • High Speed Rail & Infrastructure • Mobility / Transportation • Real Estate Technology and Innovation • Various Buildings Typologies

2007 2008 2012 2013

MRG established in Twickenham, London.

After 9 years working in London for Hill McGlynn, Olly Piltz launches his own specialist real estate search firm in Dubai, UAE.

MRG launches their London Bridge Office.

Candidate Talent Pools

Olly moves to KL to join Gattaca as Director.

• Administration and Support Functions (finance, sales etc) • Senior Management (C Suite) • Architectural Design and Engineering (FEED) • Operations and Maintenance • Project and Delivery Management Professionals • Asset Operations and Facility Management Professionals

Launch of the Manchester Office expands MRG’s reach to Northern regions.

Jan 2018 Oct 2018

Olly is promoted to DMD of Gattaca, KL.

Launches his own Executive Search consultancy, PPA Global Search.

MRG makes its first international acquisition with expansion into the KL market. MRG PA wins the Neom Account in KSA and the Lendlease Malaysia RPO.

Nov 2019

Sells PPA to MRG Global to create MRG People Asia, serving the Asia Pacific Region as Managing Director.

2021 2022

MRG PA moves into larger office and hires additional industry specialists, expanding the team.

MRG PA continues to grow its presence in the built environment marketplace and continues to internally grow the team.

Our Services

Executive Search A project dedicated to sourcing mid to senior level management staff, utilising MRG’s full range of tools in order to source, analyse and on board the very best talent in a given market.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) A full turnkey recruitment solution to manage all aspects of the talent acquisition process. An RPO ensures dedicated resource, fixed costs and expert advice in a more cost effective, flexible manor.

Management Consultancy If you are uncertain how to proceed with any recruitment situation, our recruitment lifecycle consultancy service provides SWOT analysis and detailed research into the best solutions and products available.

Project Based Recruitment Or multiple hire recruitment campaigns, need intricate planning and resource modelling, ensuring each recruitment campaign is started at the right time to fall in line with project requirements, (needs planning).

Market Mapping & Analysis A dedicated way to understand the size and scope of a market, the talent and capabilities within it and the potential limitations/advantages of engaging with any given talent pool. This is usually undertaken within short time scales to ensure information is as up to date and relevant as possible. Candidate Assessment Analysis Detailed candidate selection reducing the risk of making poor recruits. We undertake detailed candidate assessments and analysis using a range of MRG’s own tools, bespoke assessments and third-party products. Focusing on behaviours, intelligence and competencies. The unique MRG Selection Matrix allows three-dimensional candidate insights.

MRG PA Management Olly Piltz MD of MRG PA

Ashley Mathew

Business Director, Malaysia Ashley Mathew is a skilled Business Development and partnerships leader offering 8.5 years of corporate experience leading sales, client partnerships and recruitment delivery, with a total of 10+ years of sales experience. Bringing expertise in client acquisition, contract negotiation, cross selling and upselling along with excellent interpersonal communication, relationship-building and team leadership abilities. Skillfully grown revenue and improve stakeholder relations by strategically capturing new business and leveraging dynamic market opportunities. On the candidate delivery side, he is a dynamic recruiter with a proven track record of identifying and recruiting candidates for the built environment industry.

Olly has historically worked with local and international businesses across Asia, specializing in Mobility and Rail, identifying and where appropriate relocating, senior executives from around the world into new senior management appointments in Asia and the Middle East. Having worked in recruitment for 24 years, he has been based from Kuala Lumpur for the last 10 years, Olly brings to the company a wealth of knowledge in the global rail markets and its clients, candidates and projects.

Contact Olly: [email protected]

Contact Ashley: [email protected]

Matthew Evans Director of MRG Holdings Ltd. Head of MRG Global

Carmen Wilfred Senior Operations Manager

Carmen is a Senior Operations Manager for MRG People Asia, she has over 10 years of recruitment, supply chain and procurement experience, covering various industries including, but not limited to, energy and construction. She joined MRG People Asia in 2021 to lead the Lendlease RPO and has now transitioned into an Operations role, focused on the Malaysia business.

Matthew joined MRG in 2013 as business sector director, and heads up the Real Estate Advisory team in London, working with a number of organisations to make key strategic hires across the property industry. Matthew has successfully led the global expansion of MRG, and is responsible for launching the MRGPA brand. Matthew has been a Board Director since 2017 and is a trained expert in the use of Thomas International, and their Psychometric Assessment Tools.

Contact Carmen: [email protected]

Christopher Brock

Business Director, International

Christopher is a senior talent acquisition professional with thorough knowledge and experience of managing and delivering end to end staffing solutions in Asia Pacific and across the world. Chris’s industry experience is within the construction, real estate development and energy & engineering industries. He has vast experience with Retained search, Executive Search, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) & Project based Recruitment Campaigns. He is originally from Scotland but has resided in Malaysia for 11 years resulting in having an extensive network and knowledge of the Talent Market in Asia.

MRG PA is supported by a global team of 40+ employees.

Contact Christopher: [email protected]

Snapshot of our Clients

Case Studies

Client : Confidential Highway Consortium Project in Asia Position : Multiple Senior Management Roles Recruitment Solution : Market Map / Retained Search, Long & Shortlist Process Recruitment Period : 12 weeks • Brief: To find a pool of senior expatriate highway construction experts. • On retention by the client MRG PA met with the senior consortium management team in Kuala Lumpur. We agreed on the criteria for the search: the roles, skill sets required, the personality type required to succeed in the roles, suitable companies to source from and the target project types. • The brief had a number of key criteria; the candidate will preferably be Western and have extensive South East Asia experience. • The candidates must have extensive experience in highway construction or highway widening projects to R5 standard. • Design Build Operate Finance Transfer, Public Private Partnership and project owner-side experience would be highly desirable. • The client agreed to undertake an initial market map / retained search followed by a longlist and shortlist process. • The initial market map consisted of 250 senior profiles, over a 6-week period these candidates were approached and considered, each week the longlist was presented to the client stakeholder team for their review and rejection of known / unsuitable candidates. • On the 8th week after having Interviewed, rejected, accepted / considered all 250+ candidates MRG PA presented a long-list of 30 candidates to the client stakeholder team. • MRG PA re-interviewed these candidates using a selection matrix, in corporation with the client we formed a shortlist of 10 candidates. • The 10 candidates where then put through a serious of behavioural tests. • From the 10 shortlisted candidates: » 8 were interviewed by the client, » 5 candidates reached second interviews, » 4 candidates was hired; » Project COO, » Senior Project Director, » Project Director, » Construction Director • Over the next 3 months MRG PA assisted the client in mobilisation of the selected candidates.

Client : Lendlease Malaysia Position : Head of Development & PM&C Recruitment Solution : 2 Stage Retained Search Recruitment Period : 12 weeks

• The brief had a number of key criteria; the candidate must be Malaysian or be in Malaysia with an intention of staying in Malaysia for the foreseeable future, have real estate development, project management and construction experience from sufficiently process lead, safety conscious, preferably international organisations and have extensive exposure to large complex joint venture / master developed mixed used schemes with large retail elements of 1m+ NLA’s. • On retention by the client, MRG PA met with the senior management team in Singapore. We requested that due to their uniqueness in Malaysia that the search look at the individual and not the company, thus allowing MRG PA to explore exceptionally talented candidates with relevant project experience in what could be seem as non-comparable companies. • Our initial market map consisted of 150 CEO, COO, Executive Director level Malaysian candidates. Over a 6-week period these candidates were approached and considered, each week the longlist was present to the client stakeholder team for review and rejection of known candidates. • At the 8-week stage after having interviewed, rejected, accepted / considered all 100+ candidates, MRG PA presented a longlist of 30 candidates to the client stakeholder team. From this list of 30, 5 candidates were mutually agreed for second round interview by us and then client stakeholder team. • From the 5 shortlisted candidates, two candidates were hired, one for the role, one for a lesser role and a third candidate has been placed in holding until the correct project starts, but will be hired.

Case Studies

Client : Sime Darby Property Position : Head of Industrial & Logistics Development, Malaysian Vision Valley Recruitment Solution : Exclusive Executive Search Recruitment Period : 10 weeks

Client : Pavilion Group (Malton Berhad) Position : Senior Construction Director Recruitment Solution : Market Map & Analysis & Executive Search Recruitment Period : 8 weeks

• The initial brief was to conduct a 4 week long market map for a Senior Development Director, followed by a market map analysis and a shortlist of candidates thereafter. • The current incumbent was still in position, therefore the company and project had to be kept confidential. The client had been trying to replace the incumbent for 4 months. • The role was focused on managing the project management department of the Pavilion Groups Bukit Jalil project. • On retention by the client, MRG PA met with the leadership team in Kuala Lumpur where the stakeholders explained the brief. • The initial market map was to be focused on Mandarin or Cantonese speaking Senior Construction Directors that had extensive management experience in delivering large mixed retail schemes. • MRG PA approached 90 candidates in the first two weeks, and over the course of the next two weeks these candidate were assessed against the client selection criteria. • Of the 90 mapped candidates, 25 candidates were interviewed, 15 were rejected, 5 declined the role and 5 were shortlisted. • From the longlist of candidates, 3 senior leadership candidates were put forward to the client.

• MRG PA’s initial brief was based on an exclusive executive search to find the Head of Industrial & Logistic Development for MVV 2.0, reporting into the CEO & Head of Investment for MVV 2.0 and managing the entire MVV 2.0 team. • Sime Darby had been looking for a suitable candidate for this for the last year and had interviewed 30 candidates. All of which had failed to get past the first round interview stage, as such the role had been widely publicised and was known to the local talent pool. • The role was responsible for leading the team that manages the end to end business development, marketing, investment, development and construction for the initial phase of MVV which consisted of 2000+ acres of master planned industrial & logistic hub (4.0) development. • On retention by the client, MRG PA met with Head of HR at the client’s HQ in Ara Damansara, it was agreed that whilst an extensive search of the local market was preferred, the client was now open to regional expats. The client also required that the search was conducted as quickly as possible. • The process was started by identifying the key industrial & logistic hub developers across Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.

• Thereafter, a specific talent market map was created from the above list.

• From the market map, a longlist and then a shortlist of candidates was formed.

• The client interviewed 2 candidates and hired one.

• After a thorough interviewing process, we presented three candidates, of which two got through to the final round of interviewing and one was hired.

• Total time to hire was 8 weeks including offer management.

Case Studies

Client : TRX City Sdn Bhd Position : Infrastructure Design Development Director Recruitment Solution : 2 Stage Retained Search Recruitment Period : 12 weeks

• TRX City Sdn Bhd is a government owned company and the master developer behind the 78 acre, 36 plot, 26.6 billion TRX City project in Kuala Lumpur, tipped to be the new financial district for Kuala Lumpur, it is the only project in Kuala Lumpur to have MRT1 MRT2 interchanges on it; it is worth noting that Prudential, HSBC and Affin bank are all building commercial properties on the project. Lendlease has joint ventured for 17 of the 78 acres and is developing The Exchange TRX project consisting of a 2m GFA Mall, 3 residential towers, a commercial tower and a hotel. • The brief, based on a two stage executive search was to find an Infrastructure Design Development Director. • The role reported to CEO of TRX City Sdn Bhd and had the key brief to ensure the infrastructure both inside and outside the development was fully integrated and could handle the new footfall the development would bring. • The key criteria; the candidate must have developed infrastructure project experience but for a build project, have worked on similar complex projects through initial infrastructure design development phase and have worked in a GOC /GLC project or company environment whether for the Malaysia or any other government. • On retention by the client, MRG PA met the senior management team in Malaysia a number of times to discuss and define the brief and the search criteria. • It was agreed that MRG PA would provide a minimum longlist of 20 candidates, of which we would shortlist five, and present them within a 12-week period. • Our initial search focused on identifying major master developed projects in the Middle East and Europe, following which we used various search tools to identify 30 candidates. We longlisted to 20 after the first round of candidate interviews. • After a thorough interviewing process, we presented five candidates, of which we highly recommended one over the other. He was successfully hired, leading the development for the duration of his contract.

For any specific enquiries please email the relevant Business Director, or for general

enquiries please email us at: [email protected].