Kraft Search Associates
Healthcare Executive Recruiters for Board, C-Level and VP Positions
Kraft Search was formed in 2001 to become "The Quality Leader" among all Healthcare Executive Recruiters. From the beginning, our vision has been to develop long-term client relationships by executing a rigorous and extremely thorough search process so as to deliver the highest quality outcomes.
Our Clients
We have successfully completed more than 225 search assignments for a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from Fortune 500, Fortune 100 and Fortune 25 businesses, mid-cap growth companies, Private Equity and Leverage Buyout firms, and related portfolio companies, turnaround and restructuring firms and entrepreneurial Venture-Capital start-ups throughout the healthcare industry.
We have successfully completed search assignments for Board of Director, CEO, COO, CFO, EVP, SVP and VP-level assignments across most major functional areas. On average, we deliver top-notch candidates within 60 days of the start of each search.
Our Focus on Excellence
Since opening our doors as Healthcare executive recruiters in 2001, Kraft Search Associates has had a commitment to excellence to each of our clients. This commitment includes personalized consulting and recruiting services to meet each of our client's individual needs. As experienced Healthcare executive recruiters, our focus is to lead our clients in identifying, recruiting and retaining the top leadership talent in today's competitive healthcare marketplace.
Our track record of successfully completing a thorough search process with high quality outcomes is evident though our results:
- 91% candidate retention rate for the first 12 months of employment
- 80% of our annual revenues are generated from repeat clients.
From our inception in 2001, Kraft Search Associates has evolved to become one of the top healthcare retained Healthcare executive search firms in the nation. We are ranked in the prestigious list of Top 25 Healthcare Retained Search firms by a top industry publication, Modern Healthcare. In this ranking we are the only Tennessee based firm named, and we are one of only five Healthcare executive recruiters named throughout the southeastern USA.
Although we've grown in scope and size during the past seven years, our commitment to providing a thorough search process and high-quality search outcome has gone unchanged.
Our Experience
We have an outstanding team of Healthcare executive recruiters with more than 40 years of combined experience in business development, search strategy definition, search execution, candidate identification, candidate recruitment, project management, and effective negotiation between candidate and client.
Because we are singularly focused Healthcare executive recruiters, Kraft Search Associates combines a wealth of industry and technical knowledge that brings a unique and educated perspective to our clients and searches. We have access to the country's leading healthcare executives and board members, we have deep healthcare industry contacts, and we are able to consistently identify both the proven veterans as well as the promising up-and-comers, depending upon your executive recruiting needs.
We are 100% committed to recruiting only the most credible and successful individuals.
Our Extensive Resources
We continue to invest significant time and resources to develop our internal systems, IT systems, Internet presence, processes and relationships to allow us to thoroughly conduct and complete Healthcare executive searches for clients throughout the United States and Canada. Focusing our efforts within healthcare allows us to develop systems and contacts unmatched by other less focused executive recruiters.
To our client's benefit, our off-limits companies are much fewer than old-line national executive recruiter firms, and this allows us to recruit the best leadership talent for your business.
Community Involvement
We believe in bettering our community through Board affiliations and community service that allows us to give back. A few of the community organizations where we spend our time include the American Heart Association, Rotary Club of Nashville, Family and Children's Services, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Nashville Healthcare Council and Leadership Health Care, Rotary Club, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and The American College of Healthcare Executives.
The Bottom Line
Our extraordinary success as Healthcare executive recruiters can be attributed to our industry and technical knowledge as well as our ability to work one-on-one with each of our clients. As a boutique retained search firm, we assign multiple team members to each search where each member participates throughout the assignment's life-cycle. This approach offers continuity to our clients through a highly personalized search process. We're driven by quality outcomes and our all hands on deck approach helps us to more efficiently and successfully complete each executive search.
Contact Us
Please visit our Contact Us web page if you'd like to contact any member of the Kraft Search Associates Team. Or, send us an email at Info@KraftSearch.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Paul Frankenberg
President, C.E.O. and Principal
Kraft Search Associates, LLC
The Quality Leader in Healthcare Executive Search
555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37228
Phone: (615) 782-4276
Kraft Search Associates was founded in February 2001 as a quality-focused, action-oriented, and results-driven Healthcare executive search firm. Our founding goal was to create a retained executive search firm capable of providing exemplary service and superior results to the company's clients throughout the Healthcare industry. And, it is our belief, based on our ongoing client feedback, client retention rates, and our own internal quality outcome metrics, this core vision is being met.
Our goal is not to become the nation's largest Healthcare executive recruiting company based merely on number of offices, total staff size, or total revenues. Instead, our goal is to provide the best possible services to our clients; to deliver the best possible candidates for our client's key leadership positions; and to insure the highest possible long-term retention rates for the positions that we fill. We believe that by consistently striving to achieve these critical executive recruiting goals our business will continue to prosper and grow.
We invite you to contact one of our executive recruiting consultants to discuss your Healthcare executive recruiting needs. We'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss the 'Kraft Search Difference' and how it can improve your company's bottom line.
Here's a link to our Contact Us web page.
555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200, Nashville, Tennessee 37228
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Kraft Search Earns "Top 25" Ranking
Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked Kraft Search Associates one of the nation's "Top 25" Retained Healthcare Executive Search Firms.Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"Executive Recruiting Advice - Don't Underestimate the Cost of a Mis-Hire."
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
A Worthy Quote...
In my experience, relationships and loyalty have become under-valued commodities at many American companies. So many of us have lost sight of the vital importance of dealing with people we can trust. Adversarial or distant relationships are not inevitable – nor are they the best way of doing business. There is much to be gained by enlisting partners and colleagues who are committed to the same goals.
"Pour Your Heart into It"
International Health Care Trade Mission
Sept. 7-12, 2008
Paul Frankenberg will join a group of senior health care executives from across the United States for a week long trade mission to Sweden and Germany to meet with top industry executives, health care officials, government leaders and others who play key roles in the health care systems of those nations and the broader European Union.
Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"Executive Succession Planning - Taking It to the Board Room"
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
Kraft Search
Opens New Office
in Dallas, Texas
We are pleased to announce
Ms. Lourdes Cordero
has joined the Kraft Search Associates Team and will be working from the company’s new office in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Cordero's extensive Healthcare Industry experience, diversity and deep industry relationships will further solidify our position as the nation's leading Healthcare Executive Search Firm.
Read Ms. Cordero's professional biography here.
Or, if you'd like to read our recent Press Release, or any other recent Kraft Search news or articles, visit our Press Room.
Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"NCAA Men’s Basketball Finals and Healthcare Executive Search – What Do They Have in Common?"
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
