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Solutions

Retained search first, with partner-delivered staffing and GCC

Retained executive search is our flagship practice. Each page sets out what the engagement is, who it fits, how it runs, what you receive, and when to choose something else.

Retained Executive Search

Board and C-suite appointments run as a disciplined research process.

Retained executive search is an exclusive assignment. HCP One is engaged for the whole process and paid in stages. We agree a written success profile, map an agreed universe of organizations, evaluate candidates against defined competencies, and present a documented shortlist with the reasoning attached. The assignment continues through offer, acceptance and onboarding.

Best fit when

The appointment is business critical and hard to reverse

Discuss a Search

Staffing Solutions

Contract, contract to hire and direct hire technology and engineering talent.

Specialist technology and engineering staffing. You share a requirement, we come back with market supply and rate guidance, then submit candidates who have been screened against the technical substance of the role. Contract professionals are engaged through HCP One with onboarding, compliance and timesheet administration handled for you.

Best fit when

The role is defined and the work is funded

Discuss Staffing Needs

GCC Services

Set up a capability center in India, run it while it matures, then hand it over.

A Global Capability Center, or GCC, is an offshore unit that belongs to the parent organization rather than to a supplier. HCP One helps design the center, recruits its leadership and teams, operates it against agreed service levels while it matures, and then transfers it. Transfer of people, processes, assets and operating knowledge is subject to the final agreements and applicable law.

Best fit when

The need is long term and the capability should end up under your control

Build Your GCC

Leadership Advisory and Human Capital Strategy

Decide the shape of the leadership team before you decide who fills it.

A scoped advisory engagement with a written deliverable. We help you define what the leadership team needs to look like, assess the leaders you already have, benchmark both against the market, and set out the succession and capability moves that follow. It can run before a search, alongside one, or entirely on its own.

Best fit when

The question is structural and a search would be premature

Talk to an advisor

SOW and Managed Teams

Buy an outcome and a team that owns it, not a stack of individual requisitions.

Instead of filling individual roles, you agree an outcome and a way of working. HCP One assembles a cross-functional team, provides delivery leadership, and runs it under governance you can see. Engagements are structured either as a statement of work with milestones and acceptance criteria, or as a managed pod with a stable team and an agreed cadence.

Best fit when

The outcome can be described clearly enough to be scoped or planned

Design a delivery pod

AI and Technology Solutions

Leadership, talent and delivery teams for AI and technology initiatives.

Help getting an AI or technology initiative staffed, structured and delivered. That can mean hiring the leader who will own it, supplying the specialists who will build it, or standing up a managed team accountable for a defined outcome. HCP One does not sell a proprietary AI product, platform, talent graph or scoring engine. What we provide is people, teams and delivery structure.

Best fit when

There is a specific process or decision you want to improve

Explore an AI initiative

Engagement models

The commercial structures behind the work

We do not publish rates or fees. Commercial terms are agreed in the applicable agreement.

Retained search

An exclusive, staged assignment for an appointment that has to be right.

When it makes sense: Board, C-suite, senior functional or confidential appointments where the market has to be mapped rather than skimmed.
Typical use: CEO, CFO, CTO, CISO, CHRO, Chief AI Officer, Partner and Director level appointments.

Contract staffing

Specialist professionals engaged for a defined period through HCP One.

When it makes sense: Project work, surge capacity, cover for a vacancy, or a skill you need now but not permanently.
Typical use: Cloud, data, security, QA, enterprise platform and engineering roles on funded initiatives.

Contract to hire

Work together first, convert to permanent employment later.

When it makes sense: The role is likely permanent but the requirement, the budget or the fit is still settling.
Typical use: Team build-out where evidence of fit matters more than speed of paperwork.

Direct hire

Permanent placement into the client organization.

When it makes sense: The role is funded, permanent and the profile is well defined.
Typical use: Core engineering, platform, data and security roles that anchor a team.

Statement of work

A defined scope with agreed milestones, acceptance criteria and reporting.

When it makes sense: The outcome can be described well enough to be scoped, priced and accepted.
Typical use: Platform builds, data foundations, quality engineering programs, modernization work packages.

Managed delivery pod

A led, cross-functional team that works as an extension of your organization.

When it makes sense: The work is ongoing or evolving, and you want capacity with leadership rather than a queue of requisitions.
Typical use: Sustained engineering, application support, data and QE pods, onshore, offshore or blended.

AI and technology support

Specialist AI and technology capability applied to a defined initiative.

When it makes sense: An AI or technology programme that needs experienced practitioners alongside your team rather than a full outsourced build.
Typical use: Data foundations, AI use case delivery, platform engineering and integration workstreams.

Build, Operate, Transfer

HCP One builds and runs an India capability center, then transfers it to you.

When it makes sense: You want durable owned capability in India rather than an indefinite vendor relationship.
Typical use: Engineering, data, security, enterprise platform and support capability centers in India.

Advisory engagement

A scoped piece of thinking with a written deliverable.

When it makes sense: The structural question is still open: what the role should be, how the team should be shaped, whether a center is justified.
Typical use: Succession planning, organization design, workforce planning, GCC readiness assessment.

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Not sure which one fits?

Describe the problem and the constraints. We will tell you which solution applies, and say so plainly when the answer is none of them.

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