EXECUTIVE SEARCH · PERTH

Executive Search in
Perth

Senior leadership for Australia's iron-ore and critical-minerals capital — ASX-listed mining majors, LNG export complexes, and the only Australian metro that operates on the same business day as IST.

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120+

CXO Mandates Closed

Last 24 months, global

94%

On-Shortlist Retention

After first slate

95–120 Days

Time-to-Placement

Typical retained mandate

12 Months

Candidate Guarantee

Replacement included

Cost Structure

St Georges Terrace-grade rigour. India-based cost structure.

Our research desk and senior partners operate from India, so our retainer carries a different overhead curve to a St Georges Terrace or West Perth boutique. The output you see — the calibration memo, the slate, the assessment dossiers, the partner who runs the search — is the same as you would receive from a global retained firm. The economics are not.

Proof

Senior partner on every search

The named partner runs the longlist, the approach and the offer construction — the work is never quietly delegated to a coordinator.

Proof

12-month replacement

If the placed candidate departs in the first twelve months, we re-run the search at no additional retainer.

Proof

No outsourced research

The talent map is built in-house by our research desk; we do not buy lists or rent offshore sourcing pods.

Typically 30–45% lower retainer than equivalent St Georges Terrace or West Perth boutiques

Two Tracks

How a Perth-anchored mandate runs

Two operating tracks for two distinct mandate types — chosen at the calibration stage, not after.

India → Perth leadership hiring

For Indian-headquartered groups establishing or scaling a Perth presence — a critical-minerals offtake joint venture, an ASX-listed mining subsidiary, an LNG-trading platform, or a Pilbara-anchored engineering-services subsidiary — leadership has to read INR-AUD economics and the APRA-ASIC-DMIRS perimeter from week one. We hire executives who already operate between Mumbai, Bengaluru and Perth, and who understand APRA, ASIC, ASX continuous-disclosure obligations and the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety in Western Australia.

Cross-border governance — ASX continuous-disclosure, DMIRS state-level mining and SEBI dual-track readiness
Returning-diaspora benches — senior India-origin operators currently inside Perth mining majors, engineering-services platforms and LNG-trading desks
Time-zone discipline — AWST sits only 2.5 hours ahead of IST; Perth is the only Australian metro where the standard nine-to-five overlaps with the Indian business day, making single-day operational cadence genuinely viable
Currency and treasury fluency — INR-AUD corridor pricing, hedging programmes and offtake-pricing structures

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Perth local leadership hiring

For a Perth-domiciled business — an ASX-listed mining major, a Western Australian critical-minerals platform, an LNG export complex, or a St Georges Terrace-anchored engineering-services group — we run a city-anchored search. Compensation benchmarks, regulator history and the hyperlocal reputational graph are calibrated against the Perth market itself, not a broad ANZ average.

Hyperlocal calibration — comp benchmarks built off ASX-listed mining and Perth-headquartered peer comparators
Regulator-aware shortlists — clean APRA, ASIC, ASX and DMIRS state-level histories validated, not assumed
Greater-Perth talent flow — bench across St Georges Terrace, the West Perth resources cluster, Subiaco and the Pilbara fly-in fly-out commercial hinterland
Sector specialism — iron ore, critical minerals, LNG, engineering services, mining services, banking, healthcare, asset management

Discuss a Perth mandate

What We Search

C-suite roles we search in Perth

CEO / Managing Director

CFO

CHRO

CTO / CIO

CMO

COO

CRO (Revenue)

Chief Strategy / Legal Officer

Chief Product Officer

Board & Non-Executive Director

Sectors we serve from Perth

Mining HQs (Iron Ore, Lithium, Nickel)
Perth is the head-office capital of Australian iron-ore and lithium mining — the city hosts the corporate centres of the country's largest ASX-listed resources groups serving the Pilbara and the wider Western Australian critical-minerals economy.
Resources & Critical Minerals
Critical-minerals, lithium, rare-earths and nickel-processing leadership — Western Australia is the most concentrated critical-minerals corporate cluster outside North America.
Energy & LNG
Upstream gas, integrated-LNG and energy-trading leadership — Perth hosts the operating centre of one of the world's largest LNG export economies and a meaningful renewables-transition pipeline.
Engineering Services
Engineering-services, EPCM and integrated-engineering leadership — anchored by Perth's globally-significant resources-engineering professional cluster.
Construction
Construction-group, civil-infrastructure and integrated-build leadership — anchored by Western Australia's resources-led infrastructure pipeline.
Banking
APRA-supervised retail and corporate banking leadership — Perth hosts the Western Australian head-office layer of Australia's major banks and several specialised mining-finance institutions.
Healthcare
Hospital-operator, integrated-healthcare and aged-care leadership — anchored by Western Australia's consolidating private-healthcare provider cohort.
Asset Management
Resources-specialist asset-management, royalty-platform and integrated-mining-investment leadership — a globally distinctive cluster of resources-equity and royalty-product expertise.

Market Context

Why leadership hiring in Perth is different

Perth is the head-office capital of Australian iron ore and one of the most concentrated critical-minerals corporate clusters in the world. Senior appointments inside ASX-listed mining majors, engineering-services groups and LNG export complexes read against ASX continuous-disclosure obligations and the DMIRS state-level mining framework — and the resources-engineering professional cluster carries a globally-significant senior-CXO bench. We treat that distinction as a search input from the calibration memo onwards. The brief reflects whether the role sits inside the ASX-listed mining perimeter, the engineering-services economy, or the LNG export-trading function.

The talent flow into and out of Perth is exceptionally well-suited to India-corridor mandates. AWST sits only 2.5 hours ahead of IST and Perth does not observe daylight saving — the operating overlap with the Indian business day is the most generous of any Australian metro, making single-business-day cadence genuinely viable for India-anchored teams. The senior India-origin operator pool inside Perth mining majors and engineering-services platforms is concentrated in CFO, Group Commercial and Country-Head roles, often with multi-decade tenure inside Perth-headquartered groups. For Indian-headquartered groups, that returning-diaspora bench is often the fastest route to a credible Perth leader.

Compensation in Perth is structured around cash plus LTI equity vesting under AASB-compliant governance — and senior mining-major roles often layer commodity-cycle-linked deferred bonuses or carry-equivalent economics on top. ASX accountability requirements add a regulatory layer to senior offers, and post-employment restrictive covenants under Australian employment law sit inside the offer calibration, not after it.

TIME ZONE

AWST (UTC+8, no DST) — 2.5h ahead of IST year-round

PRIMARY REGULATORS

APRA, ASIC, ASX, DMIRS (state-level mining)

ANCHOR SECTORS

Iron Ore, Critical Minerals, LNG, Engineering Services

TALENT FLOW

Bidirectional with Mumbai, Bengaluru, Singapore — same-business-day overlap

COMP CURRENCY

AUD — cash + AASB-compliant LTI; commodity-cycle-linked deferred bonuses

The Process

Six steps. One discipline.

Our process is calibrated for Perth's iron-ore, critical-minerals and LNG-economy reality — including ASX continuous-disclosure obligations, DMIRS state-level mining governance, commodity-cycle-linked compensation structures, and the genuine same-business-day operating overlap with India that makes Perth uniquely suited to India-corridor cross-border mandates.

Mandate Calibration

We read the operating cadence between your headquarters and the markets the leader will serve, then convert the brief into a written calibration memo with the success measures the slate will be judged against.

Week 1

Talent-Map Build

Our research desk constructs a city-anchored talent map covering incumbents at the role plus high-potential next-rung candidates. The map is shared before approach begins, so you see which lanes we hunt and which we skip.

Weeks 1–2

Targeted Approach

A senior partner approaches the longlist personally, off-platform, with the same discretion the role itself will demand of its eventual holder. We never publish the search.

Weeks 2–4

Assessment & Calibration

Each candidate is evaluated against the calibration memo. Structured references and a written assessment dossier are shared with your selection committee — no candidate enters the slate without one.

Weeks 4–7

Slate & Selection

We present a five-name shortlist with a slate ranking, an attempt-to-hire view, and the trade-offs we would accept or reject ourselves. The committee meets the slate; we do not.

Weeks 6–9

Offer & Onboarding Bridge

We carry the offer construction, manage the resignation runway, and stay engaged through the first hundred days. The 12-month replacement guarantee runs from the candidate's start date.

Weeks 8–12+

From The Boardroom

What clients say about Perth mandates

Archetype attributions — never real names, never real companies.

“We needed a Group CFO who could hold a Mumbai operating committee and a Perth-listed audit committee on the same business day, in the same register. The slate carried four operators we should already have known and one we did. The hire is from the four; nine months in, the cadence between the two boards is finally working — and the time-zone overlap is the genuine operational difference.”

Group CFO archetype · ASX-listed critical-minerals group · Perth

A cross-border CFO mandate covering an Indian-listed parent and its ASX-listed Perth-domiciled critical-minerals subsidiary.

“What earned the engagement was the calibration memo. The partner had written down the things our nominations committee was carrying privately about the role's accountability scope — the boundary between ASX-listed parent governance and DMIRS state-level mining oversight — in language none of us had quite used. By the time we briefed candidates, the conversation in the boardroom and the conversation with the candidate were the same conversation.”

CEO archetype · Integrated mining-services group · Perth

A first-time-professional CEO appointment at a Perth-headquartered integrated mining-services group.

“The economics drew us in; the work is the reason we are running the next mandate with them. The senior partner ran the offer construction personally — the AUD package, the LTI roll-forward, and the commodity-cycle-linked deferred-bonus structure — and the candidate accepted first time.”

Board Chair archetype · Energy & resources group · Perth

A Board Chair appointment for a Perth-headquartered energy and integrated-resources group.

FAQs

Frequently asked — executive search in Perth

Answers to the questions boards most often ask before retaining a search partner for a Perth-anchored mandate.

Most retained CXO mandates close in 95–120 days from calibration to signed offer. We have closed urgent CFO searches in eight to ten weeks where the brief was tight and the nominations committee moved on slate-day; complex CEO and Board Chair searches inside ASX-listed mining majors can run sixteen weeks where ASX continuous-disclosure timelines, DMIRS state-level approvals or commodity-cycle-linked LTI modelling extend the offer cycle.

We charge a flat retainer billed in three tranches across the search. The structure mirrors what a global retained firm would quote, but the absolute number is typically 30–45% lower than equivalent St Georges Terrace or West Perth boutiques — a function of our India-based research desk, not a discount on quality. We share the fee schedule before any work begins.

We invoice in AUD, INR or USD at the client's election. Australia-domiciled entities typically invoice in AUD against the local entity; Indian parents often prefer INR billing against the holding company. The retainer structure is identical across currencies.

Perth is the only Australian metro where the standard business day genuinely overlaps with India. AWST is UTC+8 with no daylight saving, which means Perth is just 2.5 hours ahead of IST year-round. A nine-to-five Perth schedule overlaps with the morning-and-early-afternoon Indian business day, so single-business-day operational cadence and same-day call-back is genuinely viable — a meaningful operational advantage over Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane for India-anchored teams.

Yes. We treat the ASX RegCo and DMIRS state-level mining perimeter as search inputs from the first conversation. Each candidate's regulatory history is validated through structured references and public-record review before they enter the slate, and the offer is structured to anticipate registration timelines rather than collide with them.

If the placed candidate leaves the role within twelve months of start date for any reason other than a board-led restructuring, we re-run the search at no additional retainer. The guarantee runs from start date, not signed offer, so the onboarding window is genuinely covered.

No. Gladwin International is an independent retained search firm with its own research desk, partner bench and intellectual property. We are not a sub-contractor to any global retained firm and do not share candidate data with one.

Yes — that is one of our highest-priority mandate categories in Perth. The brief and the slate are calibrated for the offtake-and-commercial reality, with attention to commodity-cycle-linked compensation, India-corridor offtake-pricing structures, and the senior India-origin operator bench inside Perth-headquartered critical-minerals platforms.

Engage

Brief us on a Perth-anchored mandate

Conversations are confidential, partner-led, and carry no obligation to retain. A senior practice partner reviews every enquiry personally and responds within four business hours.