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Fractional Executive Search

Has your Jakarta business outgrown the founder doing every job?

Founder-led and family businesses here serve one of the largest consumer markets in the world, and growth eventually asks for more senior leadership than the founding team can give. We find, vet and embed an experienced executive for the part of the week the business needs.

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The situation

Why a full-time executive is often the wrong first step

A permanent CFO, COO or CMO seems like the natural answer. For many Jakarta SMEs it arrives too early, for four reasons:

01

A large fixed cost

A senior permanent package in rupiah, with contributions and benefits on top, is a big commitment for a business still finding its next stage.

02

A long road to hire

Finding and landing a senior executive the conventional way can take months, while competitors keep moving.

03

Hard to reverse

If the fit is wrong, a permanent senior role in Indonesia is slow and costly to unwind, and the disruption to the team lasts longer still.

04

More seniority than hours

Most SMEs need a couple of days of senior judgement a week, not a full working week, and capital is too precious to spend on the difference.

We search our collective for a proven C-suite operator, check the fit with your business and introduce them on a defined, part-time basis. They hold real authority in their area, work alongside your people and answer for the result, while the family or founders stay firmly in charge.

Is it the right fit?

Who this is for, and who it is not

Best for

  • Founders carrying a C-suite function themselves with no time left to lead
  • Businesses that need senior capability two or three days a week, not five
  • A specific gap in finance, operations, marketing, technology or people that is holding growth back
  • Teams that cannot yet justify, or afford, a full-time executive salary
  • Owners who want an operator accountable for outcomes, not a consultant with a deck

Not for

  • A junior or purely execution role a full-time manager should own
  • A one-off project an agency could deliver and hand back
  • Businesses wanting a figurehead rather than someone who does the work
  • A pre-revenue idea with no function yet to lead
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Senior leadership, on terms a growing business can carry.

How we work with Jakarta SMEs

What you get beyond the match

We are an executive search firm first. We find and vet a senior operator from our collective of 800+, match them to your business, and keep the support and governance around the engagement from the first week to the last.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

An ongoing relationship

We do not hand over a name and leave. We meet regularly with you and the executive, keep the brief up to date and say so early if the engagement starts to drift.

Peers behind your executive

Your executive has colleagues across our collective to consult. A COO planning a rollout to Surabaya can ask one of our CMOs about regional demand; a CFO can test an ERP budget with a CTO.

We hold the brief

If your executive has to leave, we lead the handover and a fresh search against the same brief, and we stay with the engagement throughout.

Fit with the family, not only the job

We match on stage, sector and leadership style as well as experience. Someone excellent who cannot work with an owner-led Indonesian business will not succeed here, so we test for that.

How it works

What an engagement looks like

From first call to an embedded operator in weeks, not months.

01

Discovery

We spend time understanding your business: challenges, goals, team dynamics, and what 'success' looks like in 90 days.

02

Match

We introduce the right fractional executive from our vetted collective. You meet them, ask hard questions, and confirm the fit.

03

Scoped engagement begins

The engagement launches with a defined scope, clear deliverables, and a structured cadence. Your fractional is embedded, not advisory.

04

Adapt and evolve

As your business changes, the engagement changes with it. Add hours, shift focus, introduce a second specialist, all without restructuring.

Where to start

Which executive do you need first?

You do not need to know the answer before you call. Match the problem you feel most to the operator who owns it.

If this is the problem
Start with
If this is the problemCash flow, reporting or fundraising is the worry
Start withFractional CFO
If this is the problemThe founder is the bottleneck and delivery is slipping
Start withFractional COO
If this is the problemPositioning is unclear and demand is thin
Start withFractional CMO
If this is the problemRevenue has plateaued and sales and marketing are pulling apart
Start withFractional CRO
If this is the problemTechnology decisions carry risk you cannot weigh
Start withFractional CTO
If this is the problemHiring, culture or HR compliance is straining
Start withFractional CHRO
Our fractional services

Each fractional role maps to a different SME challenge

Start with the gap that is costing you most, and the roles below show which leader owns it.

Proven leadership

Backed by executives who have led at

PwC
Microsoft
Unilever
HSBC
Deloitte
KPMG
EY
Accenture
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

Usually two to three weeks from the first conversation to an embedded executive. We take time over the match with your sector and your owners, and if timing is tight, tell us and we will be straight about what is possible.

We match for that where the brief calls for it: experience of family ownership, Indonesian tax and reporting, regulated sectors or national distribution. We test for it during vetting and stay involved to make sure it holds.

Yes. Jabodetabek is the natural base for a national rollout, and a fractional COO or CMO can sequence new regions, set up distribution and build the systems that let the business grow without head office doing everything.

Respectfully. Our executives work with the family, not around them, and understand that trust and long relationships matter. They professionalise the management layer while the family keeps control of the decisions that are theirs.

Yes. Small teams often feel the difference most: a part-time CFO or COO adds financial discipline, operating systems or digital leadership the founders lack, without a permanent salary to match.

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Not sure which leader you need first?

Tell us where the business feels stretched. We will identify the gap that is costing you most and match a proven operator to own it, backed by our vetted collective of senior leaders.

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