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Talman Group

20 years
as your Talent
Boutique

 

Ignasi Rafel

“The challenge for today’s
organisations is to recruit
talent with potential,
develop it so that it could leave,
but ensure that it stays”.

 

Susana Galcerán

“We manage talent and
relationships using
knowledge about the
people concerned”.

 

Lluïsa Civil

“We tackle each project
in a particular manner,
involving close and
personalised attention”.

 

Miquel Martret

"Nowadays, it is essential to
identify talent and help it to grow,
and then succeed in placing
it in the best position"

STRATEGIC CONSULTANTS IN EXECUTIVE SEARCH

EXPERTS IN MATCHING CULTURE WITH TALENT.

OUR SERVICES

We are a boutique that delivers a premium talent recruitment and management service, with a view to enhancing the value of companies through the people who comprise, manage and govern them.

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

HIGH IMPACT BOARDS

LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SPHERES OF INTERVENTION

Knowledge and experience of 360 º communication in a corporate environment, especially in family businesses and in the industrial sector.

OUR HISTORY IN FIGURES

More than 20 years in the successful recruitment and management of talent

350 companies have placed their trust in us

More than 1.250 projects successfully completed

60.000 people have placed their professional careers in our hands

Retention

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The professionals who join companies establish stable and lasting relationships with them.

Loyalty

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Percentage of returning clients.

OUR TEAM

Experts in matching culture with talent

A team of professionals who are completely dedicated to understanding organisations and meeting people in order to identify and recruit the particular talent that is best suited to each position.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

IGNASI RAFEL

Founding Partner and Director of the Talman Group

Industrial engineer (UPC), MBA (ESADE), PDG (IESE). More than 20 years’ experience as a headhunter. A strategic consultant who is an expert in the recruitment of management talent, specialising in family businesses and the industrial sector.

CARLOS ALBA

Talman Group Partner

Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism by EUHT Sant Pol, Postgraduate in Hospitality Management by Cornell University and Master in Business Administration by EAE Business School. Professional career in the Commercial Management field with multidisciplinary teams and entrepreneur of different start-ups.

9 years of experience as a Head hunter specialized in FMCG.

ERNESTO CALDAYA

Partner at Talman Group

Industrial Engineer (UPC), PDD (IESE). Over 20 years of experience in strategic consulting, of which more than 15 years as a Headhunter. Specialized in Talent Management in Executive Search processes, Management Assessments, Succession Plans, and Career Management programs at both national and international levels.

SUSANA GALCERÁN

Technical Director and Senior Consultant

Degree in Psychology from Barcelona University. Master’s degree in Management of Human Resources in Organisations from the IDEC. Regards herself as our clients’ strategic partner.

LLUÏSA CIVIL

Office Manager

Higher degree in Administration and Finance. More than 11 years in charge of the Talman Group’s Administration Department, and also its Office Manager. Ignasi Rafel’s “right-hand woman”.

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

JAIME GREGO MAJOR

Strategic Partner of the Board Division

B.A. in Liberal Arts from Brown University; B.S. in Global Finance from the Citicorp Institute of Global Finance. After several executive positions, including CEO and Vice Chairman of a Board, he has 34 years of experience on boards of various types and deep experience in family businesses. He is an expert in helping family businesses ensure that their boards not only work but have High Impact.

BEA OLVERA

Associate Director Leadership Development

Graduate in Economics, Business Management and Psychology. International MBA from ESADE, Master in Group Analytical Psychology from Deusto and Master in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. More than 20 years of experience as an organisational development consultant. I am a lecturer and programme director at ESADE in the areas of team leadership and change management. Expert in management assessment and coaching, specialising in the financial sector and family businesses.

ADVISORY CONSULTANT

JOSEP PARERA

Partner and General Commercial Manager of Top Cable, a family business manufacturing medium- and low-voltage electric cables.

After training as an industrial electrical engineer, he devoted his whole professional career to the general commercial management of his own company, which, together with his three brothers, he founded 35 years ago. Currently, he is also on Top Cable’s board of directors, and is a partner and consultant of the Talman Group.

MIQUEL MARTRET

Associate Director of the Talman Group.

Degree and MBA in Business Administration and Management from ESADE. Master’s degree in Strategy and Creativity from Ramón Llull University.

RAMON LLAGOSTERA

Industrial engineer (UPC), MBA (ESADE)

He is currently a shareholder and advisor of companies in the food sector: Celler Mas Doix, Patatas Fritas Torres and Speed & Efficiency and previously of Guzman Gastronomía. He works in the financial area at Laboratorios Almirall, Grupo Pepsico and the Schlumberger Group, and is General Manager of Bodegas Sumarroca. He is a partner and advisor of the Talman Group.

RAMON SAGARRA

Industrial engineer (UPC) and MBA (ESADE), who also holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Automation and Robotics (UPC).

An expert in public services networks and in energy. A specialist in telecommunications, electricity and control. The founder of the companies EACOM, MODI, NEXGENET, NEARBYSENSORS and NEARBYCOMPUTING. He was formerly Director of Technology at the engineering multinational ESTEYCO, Director of Infrastructures for 22@Barcelona,S.A., Director of Construction at ONO and a regular consultant for the Barcelona Council. He is also a partner and advisor of the Talman Group.

ANTONI CROUS

Chemical engineer with an MBA from ESADE. Academic Director of programmes for B2B companies at ESADE. A specialist in industrial marketing.

He has had management responsibilities in important, family businesses in the industrial sector. He was formerly General Manager of Uniland Cementera and Business Manager at Cementos Portland Valderrivas, La Seda de Barcelona and Plastivert. He was the founder of Quaternia. He is currently a director of Lafarga Lacambra, Encofrados Alsina and Talleres Felipe Verdés, and Chairman and General Manager of the Centre for Capillary Technology.

JOSEP MARIA JOANA

Graduate in Physical Sciences, PDD from the IESE and SEP from ESADE.

Director of Giró Packaging and of Barcelonesa de Productos Químicos, and Assistant to the CEO of González Byass. He was previously a partner of PWC, Vice-Chairman and General Manager of the consultancy division of IBM, and an academic assistant at ESADE.

OUR VALUES

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ENTHUSIASM

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COMMITMENT
AND LOYALTY

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RESPONSIBILITY
AND HONESTY

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CLOSENESS
AND TRUST

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RIGOUR
AND FLEXIBILITY

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EXCELLENCE

OUR WAY OF WORKING

BOUTIQUE

An executive search firm for an “immense minority”.

INNOVATION AND SKILL

We seek excellence with the help of new technologies, and combine innovation with the know-how of our profession.

TAILOR-MADE

Firma de autor para el siglo XXI. Hecho a medida porque cada proyecto es único y singular.

INTELLIGENCE AND INSTINCT

We read and interpret organisations. We work with attitudes, motivations, expectations. No robot can do our work.

TALMAN APPOINTMENTS

The challenge for organizations today is to capture talent with potential, develop it to leave, and make it stay.

Ignasi Rafel

We manage talent and relationships from the
knowledge of people.

Susana Galcerán

We approach each project specifically, with treatment
close and personalized.

Lluïsa Civil
OFERTAS

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