Welcome

SAPhire International Limited is a specialist in the SAP world, providing retained search, contingency, contract and Interim recruitment solutions to end users and consultancies alike. We source and place highly qualified and skilled SAP consultants for clients on a pan-European basis, and these can be both permanent or contract. We have access to over 9000 SAP Professionals due to our huge network of contacts built up over the last 15 years.

Our scope of Activities cover the UK , Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Switzerland which is our biggest market.

In addition, SAPhire International is the chosen SAP division of CNA Executive Search, part of the UK's largest independent recruitment business - the £800M Pertemps Group. Please go to our Partners page for website links.

For the last 25 years, since the R2 days, our consultants have specialised in SAP Recruitment for Functional and configuration of all SAP modules, ABAP developers, Basis consultants, Solutions Architects, Project Managers and IS-Solutions as well as SAP Sales. We also have expert knowledge of multi-lingual consultants. Our own recruiters are all bi-lingual.

We are REC accredited, membership number 00074583, and as such our process follows the REC Code of Professional Practice.

We are registered under the data protection act no. Z1865965 this ensures that any information provided to us is secure.

We are partnered with Accurity GmbH in Zurich who manages all of our Swiss business in terms of licensing, payroll, work permits, pensions and mandatory deductions.

We have partners for financial advice, career coaching and outplacement. Please see our links and partners page.

We have relationships with several SAP consulting companies and as a result can implement full projects as well as finding individual consultants.

Our business ethos is to build long, strategic and successful relationships to allow your business to continue to grow along with ours. We believe SAPhire International to be the leading SAP Executive Search Consultancy for Europe and as such have a client and candidate base that reflects this.

When we are given the opportunity to source a new Consultant for a client, we first spend time discussing the job specification. With the experience we have in the SAP industry, we understand the importance of detail, no matter how small. Amongst other things we speak with the client to understand the project’s module and sub module requirements, linguistic requirements, budgetary limitations, the importance of delivering the project on time and of course the salary and benefits package for a permanent role.

We will not merely send you many CV’s, we have continued to be successful by sourcing, screening and interviewing Consultants ourselves prior to them meeting the client. That way we present the client with only 2 or 3 quality candidates for interview. We ensure that these Consultants want the position, are skilled, and are able to fill the role. Visas are checked when necessary and any relocation or commuting considerations are fully understood. We appreciate that the client’s time is valuable and offer a service where we deliver based specifically on the client’s needs. The client can then make a decision knowing that each Consultant is capable, available and affordable to perform the role.

We also offer a fully retained service, which allows the client to have first choice of all Consultants sourced by SAPhire International LTD for the specific role; this is the preferred choice of many of our major clients.

As a business, we take honesty, integrity and ethics very seriously and as such, we abide by the REC code of conduct.

About us

SAPhire International Limited was founded by people who understand SAP and recruitment. Our senior management team include former Managing Director of two SAP centric recruitment companies, an Ambassador for ABSCO, 2 Fellows of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals, a former Vice President of JP Morgan and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

There is a combined SAP recruitment experience of over 25 years in the team, going right back to the R/2 days.

We believe in total honesty and integrity and always treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves.

We are the ethical recruitment consultants.

Finding us

Our offices are located at:

Riverside House
River Lawn Road
Tonbridge
Kent
TN9 1EP

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Our Services

Here at SAPhire International Limited we believe in delivering solutions tailored to our client’s needs.

We offer retained executive search for those hard to find SAP specialists or senior executives and contingency recruitment for the day to day hires needed by all companies

The executive search profession has two distinct fields, retained executive search and contingency search. Retained search firms such as SAPhire are paid a retainer fee to locate and evaluate potential internal or external candidates for a senior level position.

Search consultancies are often entrenched in particular market sectors, in our case SAP. Their market sector networks are used along with various methods to seek candidates for a particular job. Normally the individuals are not actively seeking a new job. It is the job of the search consultant to approach these individuals with a view to taking them out of their current company and placing them in another, often a competitor.

The service is paid for by the client company or organization, not by the hired job candidate. Potential job candidates are identified, qualified and presented to the client by the executive search firm based upon fit with a written or verbal Job Specification developed in conjunction with the client. Assessing degree of potential fit of the candidate with the job specification is a key activity for the search firm, since the most common reason a search consultant is engaged by a client company is to save time and effort involved with identifying, qualifying and reviewing potential candidates for specific leadership positions.

It is common for a potential candidate to be identified by the search firm via a telephone call. Often the phone call is the result of a recommendation from someone inside the existing network of the search firm. Quality oriented search firms work hard at cultivating and continually updating their network of contacts so that when a search assignment is awarded they will be ready to start recruiting potential candidates. Another way to identify potential candidates involves search firm "research", which is contacting targeted people in specific companies who appear to fit the job profile in some logical manner. Some of the best candidate referrals come from people who could be candidates for the job themselves but for any number of reasons are not interested at that particular time.

Job seekers who qualify for senior-executive level searches often mistake executive recruiters for career transition, or "outplacement" specialists. Here at SAPhire, we do not do this, we use a specialist company called Mayfair International Resources Limited. Executive recruiters work for their client companies. They do not actively place out-of-work individuals. This would not only be a conflict of interest, it would also be financially unwise. A job seeker does not pay a recruiter when he lands a job. The client company pays the recruiting firm when it fills a position. This nuance is lost on many. It may be worthwhile to contact executive search firms if you qualify, but do not expect them to take time out of their schedule to talk with you or see you. They are driven by their specific assignments for their clients: they find people for roles, not roles for people. Executive search consultants can be "career makers" for some individuals, but for most, this will not be the way they will find their next role.

We offer contractors to fill the “needed now” talent shortages often experienced by new projects or upgrades.

Our contract recruitment services enable you to quickly source specialist SAP consultants without compromising on quality. Hundreds of contractors register with us every month and we have access to over 10,000 SAP contractors via our partnership network.

We also offer interim management for short to medium term business improvement or to cover in the event of maternity or illness.

Finally, we have a consulting partnership agreement where we are able to introduce you to some of the very best specialist consulting companies in the world.

Uniquely we can also provide our own employees and associates for a wide range of SAP contract and consulting positions. This provides an added level of quality assurance.

The Team

Now that you know a bit about our company, here's a bit about us.

Stephen Hall FIRP, Managing Director and owner

Stephen started his career in the early eighties and worked in the world of IT for eight years at Reuters and The London International Stock Exchange.

He moved to recruitment within IT in 1988 and was managing and mentoring a team of twenty recruiters just 4 years later. In 1997 Stephen founded Sapphire Consulting International (a niche recruitment company) and built the business to £3.75 Million in sales over just two years. He sold Sapphire as a going concern to James Caan (now of Dragons Den fame) and subsequently founded the Method Group which he grew to a multi million pound international operation over 4 years. He trained all of the recruiters in executive search and all were highly successful. Subsequently he became CEO of Berkeley International Plc., where he built a significant business. Since then Stephen has worked as an interim Management Consultant for several recruitment companies and spent a year in Switzerland with The Albany Group, facilitating the deployment of SAP contractors on an international basis.

Stephen has helped over 200 recruiters to beat their targets through training and mentoring.

Anthony Doe, Finance Director

Anthony Doe is a Charted Accountant with many years of Professional experience working for both PWC and Deloitte before embarking on a career outside of practice

Anthony has extensive experience of the recruitment industry and worked for a large multinational IT recruitment agency for a number of years. During this time he was involved in the development of a large European network.

In recent years he has focused on the selection, design and implementation of financial and business systems for a wide range of businesses.

Mohamed Hassan, Director

Managing Director and Partner at CNA Executive Search, Chief Executive Officer at Darahim Capital, Bahrain.

Executive Director - Head of Asset Management at Abu Dhabi Investment Company, Abu Dhabi

Vice President at Merrill Lynch International & Co., London/Dubai

Mohamed is the Managing Director at CNA Executive Search covering Financial Services and Capital Markets

Simon Long, Senior Consultant

Simon joined SAPhire International LTD in 2009 after being approached by Stephen Hall FIRP, the Managing Director. Simon had been running his own business since 2003, which he has since sold as a going concern. He sources and places SAP candidates for medium size businesses to large multinational clients on a pan-European basis. He also has relationships with consulting companies in the UK and central Europe. Simon is well versed in business practice and ethics and seeks to build long term relationships with his client base. Simon adheres to the company ethos of treating people as he would like to be treated.

Kadi Debbah, Consultant

Kadi joined SAPhire International Ltd in early 2010 as a researcher. Since then she has been promoted to Associate Consultant and currently holds the position of Consultant. Kadi is fairly new to the world of SAP executive search, after gaining several years experience in the Events industry.

She is receiving extensive consultancy training to REC standards on both internal and external courses. Her current role is to source and place SAP consultants for medium size businesses to large multinational clients on a UK and pan-European basis. Kadi speaks fluent French. She is building a SAP client base in the UK and Europe.

She already has a relationship with several consulting/outsourcing companies and is now working towards building long term business relationships. Kadi adheres to the company ethos of treating people as she would like to be treated.

Careers at SAPhire

Working at SAPhire is unlike working for the majority of recruitment or staffing companies. We say what we mean and mean what we say, so there is no ambiguity as we move forward in our partnership.

Our people are our business and as such we treat them with the respect and dignity that they deserve.

Our salary structure is the same for everyone so no nasty surprises.

Our bonus structure is simple. We take the cost of you salary, national insurance, and office costs as you’re “cost of employment”. Once you have achieved this, we pay you 20% up to £10,000 in fee income per month and 25% over £10,000 in fee income. We do not cap bonus so it is up to you how much you earn.

We have a clearly defined career path which is as follows: Salaries are 2010 levels.

We also from time to time hire administrators and researchers; we do not have defined salaries for these roles, so they can be negotiated at interview.

Current Vacancies:

Please contact us using the contact form here.

Employee Benefits:

• Full training will be provided in executive search and SAP.
• Stake holder pension scheme with matched contributions by the company after 6 months of continuous employment.
• 20 days paid holiday per year, increasing by one day for each completed year of service up to a maximum of 25 days.
• Generous and uncapped bonus structure.
• Quarterly staff incentives for achieving targets.
• Company funded Christmas meal and outing.
• A structured career, with defined goals to reach promotions and pay rises.
• Employee share ownership scheme available after 12 months of continuous service.
• All expenses incurred in the day to day performance of your duties will be paid under our expenses policy.
• Six monthly performance appraisel for each employee.
• We treat our people as we would like to be treated.
• SAPhire International Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.

Office hours:

Monday to Thursday 08.45 - 17.30 with one hour for lunch.

Friday 08.30 - 16.30 with one hour for lunch.

It may be that you are expected to work outside or beyond these hours in the performance of your duties, however, we are a flexible company that understands that you have a life outside of work.

Contact us

You can use this form to contact us. You might like to know we are fully registered and compliant with the Data Protection Act 1998 (Registration PZ1865965) and will never disclose any information to third parties without your consent.

Links & Partners

CNA International

CNA has been operating since 1995 and successfully combining specialist Executive Search processes with their unique CABS® methodology to provide their clients with the best talent available. CNA are part of the Pertemps Group. SAPhire International is the chosen SAP specialist division of CNA International.

Pertemps Group

Since 1961 their growth has been spectacular. From their roots in the West Midlands the company has developed into a national organisation with branches from Edinburgh to the Isle of Wight. This year their turnover is anticipated to be in excess of £240 million and they employ nearly 1000 permanent staff and payroll in excess of 20,000 flexible workers per week.

Accurity

Accurity offers a comprehensive permit, payrolling and management service for freelancers working on contract. Accurity is run by an experienced team of professionals who are familiar with the challenges associated with freelancing and know what is important to contractors, agents and clients. They are committed to providing the best retention rates possible to contractors and consistently provide the best value in the business and only partner with agencies committed to high professional standards

Accurity manage all of Saphire International's Swiss based business

Mayfair Coaching Practice

Mayfair Coaching Practice was formed after recognising that individuals and companies perform better from being coached. This enhanced performance translated into better business practices, improved customer relations, and increased employee motivation and loyalty, which combine to produce significantly better business results and a much happier personal connection with life and its fulfilments.

Mayfair Coaching Practice was developed in collaboration with people at the very top of their profession.

The Mayfair team comprises Psychologists, Sport and Performance Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts, Master Coaches, Internationally Accredited Career and Personal Development Coaches, Hypnotherapists and NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioners. Together with a significant team of career coaches at both junior and senior levels. They also have experienced directors of finance, Chartered Accountants, Tax specialists and Business Professionals to assist those who choose to open business, buy Franchises or seek self employment.

SAPhire International works closely with Mayfair when long-standing SAP Consultants require new career paths and outplacements.

Financial Advisory

Brian Dudley is our preferred financial Adviser.

As a qualified Independent Financial Adviser, Brian is able to offer professional advice for those individuals who are working in the UK and for those currently or expecting to work overseas.

UK Clients

For those individuals who are living and working in the UK, Brian is able to assist in their financial planning requirements. The three categories these people genuinely fall into are UK citizens who intend to remain in the UK, those UK citizens who intend to retirement abroad and Non-UK Citizens who have come to UK to work, but intend to return to their own country.

For all the above people, their own personal financial planning requirements will be very different. By creating the best possible planning for life, you can be assured of maximising your goals and ensuring you achieve your financial objectives.

Offshore Clients

People who work abroad typically benefit from better incomes along with associated lifestyles and life for an expat can be very enjoyable. However, for the individual who is working or thinking of working abroad, there are many things to consider, and ensuring that his or her financial situation is correctly managed is extremely important.

It is critical that the expat sets up his financial and personal affairs correctly to ensure that he or she does not make costly errors. By using of the correct tax planning for your savings and investments, it is possible to minimise the tax paid when living offshore and when you finally return to your home country. It is also important to protect your family and your assets, and again this can be done through the use of appropriate Wills, Trusts and Corporate Structures.

Some of the areas we are able to assist you with:

• Wealth Management
• Savings & Investments
• Retirement planning
• School fee planning
• Company formation
• Trusts and Wills
• Offshore Bank Accounts
• Employee leasing Schemes
• Employment Benefit Trusts
• UK Pension Transfers
• Life Assurance
• Mortgages

For further information, please contact us at Saphire International Ltd and we will be happy to arrange an informal discussion with Brian.