The Client
A diversified business group was launching five new fintech ventures — spanning digital lending, payments, wealth-tech, insurance-tech, and a shared technology platform — and needed complete management teams in place across all five businesses within a single quarter, ahead of each venture's planned go-to-market date.
The Challenge
Each venture required its own leadership team — typically a CEO or business head, functional heads across product, technology, risk, and operations, and an initial team of specialists — meaning hiring needed to happen across five distinct organisations simultaneously, each with its own talent profile and culture. With go-to-market dates staggered only slightly across the five ventures, there was no room to hire sequentially.
The client needed a single recruitment partner who could run five concurrent searches without losing visibility or consistency across any of them.
Our Approach
- Embedded RPO model — MMC's RPO Solutions team embedded a dedicated recruitment pod with the group's central HR function, giving each venture a single point of coordination while maintaining a shared view of progress across all five.
- Venture-specific hiring plans — Each of the five ventures received its own role mapping, sourcing strategy, and interview process — recognising that a digital lending business and a wealth-tech platform attract very different candidate pools.
- Leadership-first sequencing — Business heads and key functional leaders were prioritised in the first weeks of each search, so that newly appointed leaders could shape hiring decisions for their own teams from early on.
- Shared talent pipeline — Where candidate profiles were relevant across more than one venture, MMC's team cross-referred candidates between searches — accelerating fill rates without duplicating sourcing effort.
The Result
Across the five ventures, MMC delivered 120+ hires — including all business head and senior functional leadership roles — at an average of 45 days per venture from kickoff to first hires onboarded. All five businesses launched on schedule with their core leadership teams in place.
"Running five searches in parallel sounds chaotic, but MMC's RPO team made it feel like one coordinated programme. We always knew exactly where each venture stood." — Group Head of Talent, Diversified Business Group