The region's talent doesn't
announce itself. We find it.
The region's talent doesn't announce
itself. We find it.
OUR APPROACH
We recruit for today
and build for tomorrow.
- High-impact hiring for critical roles where speed and precision matter.
- Built on deep sector knowledge, active networks, and real market intelligence.
- We move fast, without compromising on fit or long-term value.
- We partner with boards, founders, and senior management to hire leaders who carry both mandate and consequence.
- Our executive search work focuses on roles where decisions influence strategy, culture, and long term value creation. Assignments are handled with discretion, rigor, and deep understanding of regional and sector context.
- Typical mandates include C suite, regional leadership, and critical functional heads across FMCG, industrials, consumer, and investment backed businesses.
- Strategic talent mapping to assess leadership capability and future readiness.
- Used to support succession planning, competitive benchmarking, and growth strategy.
- Insight-led decisions, grounded in real market data.
- Practical Leadership and Advisory solutions aligned to business strategy and growth priorities.
- From structure and capability to performance and governance support.
- Measured by outcomes, not process.
22+
Years of
Experience
670+
Clients
Advised
32+
Markets with
Global Presence
75%
Still in Role at
Three Years
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Mindfield Resources is a specialist executive search and recruitment firm based in Dubai, working across the Middle East and Africa.
We find senior and specialist talent for organisations hiring into the region. That runs from mid to senior management through to C-suite and board appointments, on both contingency and retained models. Alongside search, we deliver talent mapping, which gives organisations a picture of the leadership market before a seat opens, and leadership and advisory support, including fractional leadership for roles that need an experienced operator before a permanent hire makes sense.
We are led by senior partners. Every mandate is run by people who have worked this region for their entire careers.
The Middle East and Africa, led from Dubai.
Across the Gulf, that means the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, with Saudi Arabia now the fastest-moving hiring market in the region. Across the wider Middle East and North Africa, we work into Egypt, the Levant and the North African markets.
In Africa, we cover North, East and West Africa and South Africa, with regular mandates into Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. African hiring carries its own dynamics, particularly around building local leadership into roles that were previously held by expatriates, and we have been doing that work for many years.
The region is not uniform, and we do not treat it as though it is. What works in Riyadh does not work in Lagos.
FMCG and consumer is our core. It is where the firm was built and where our network runs deepest.
Around that core we work across retail, automotive, real estate, engineering and industrial, private equity, and diversified group of companies structures. Within those sectors we hire across sales, marketing, general management, finance, supply chain and specialist commercial functions.
We are specialists rather than generalists by choice. We take mandates in sectors where we already know who is performing, because that is the only way to reach the people who are not looking for a job.
On two models, depending on the mandate.
Contingency is pay-on-placement. You brief us, we search, the fee is due when the right person accepts and starts. There is no upfront commitment. It suits mid to senior mandates where the market has depth and speed matters.
Retained is an engaged search. A fee is agreed at the start, the mandate is exclusive, and the work is reported at each stage. It suits senior and board-level appointments, confidential mandates, and roles where the field is narrow and the search has to be exhaustive rather than fast.
We will tell you which model fits your mandate before you commit to either.
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