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Decision Infrastructure

Most companies don't have a hiring problem.
They have a decision problem.

Decision infrastructure for hiring across Payroll, HR, IT & Finance. 6M+ candidate reach. 140+ countries. 14-day hires. 98% retention.

This is not a sales call. It's a diagnostic.

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01 / The Problem

Your hiring process is a liability.
Here's the proof.

Mis-Hires0%

Wrong people in critical seats

Two-thirds of senior hires fail within 18 months. Not because the talent isn’t there — because the decision framework wasn’t. You’re choosing on instinct where you should be choosing on infrastructure.

Slow Hiring0 weeks

Every week costs you £34k

The average enterprise vacancy sits open for 14 weeks. That’s 14 weeks of productivity loss, team burnout, missed targets, and competitors moving faster. Speed isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a P&L line.

Poor Briefs0%

Garbage in, garbage out

82% of hiring briefs lack the strategic context needed to source effectively. They describe tasks, not outcomes. They list qualifications, not culture markers. The brief is where most hires go wrong — before a single CV is read.

Reactive Decisions0%

You’re hiring backwards

91% of companies only start hiring after the seat is empty. That’s like building a fire escape after the building’s on fire. Strategic hiring is anticipatory. It’s pipeline infrastructure — built before you need it.

02 / The Reframe

Hiring isn't a service you buy.
It's infrastructure you build.

The companies that win the next decade won't have better recruiters. They'll have better decision systems — embedded, data-driven, and running 24/7 across every function and every geography.

03 / The Operating System

The Olympus Talent OS™

Five interconnected layers. One operating system for every hiring decision your organisation makes. Each layer feeds the next. Nothing is siloed. Nothing is reactive.

Seishin

Clarity

Define what you actually need. Not tasks — outcomes. Not qualifications — capability profiles aligned to culture.

Tenmon

Timing

Read the market. Know when talent is moving, when competitors are weak, when your window is open.

Chimon

Market

Map the terrain. Salary bands, talent density, competitor movements, regional nuances across 140+ countries.

Yōnin

Execution

Deploy. Embedded teams, subscription delivery, FIRE Protocol™ scoring on every shortlist. Two weeks, not fourteen.

Innin

Retention

The hire is the beginning, not the end. 90-day integration support, culture alignment monitoring, 98% 12-month retention.

04 / The Protocols

Four protocols.
Zero ambiguity.

Every engagement runs through the Olympus Hiring Doctrine™ — four interlocking protocols that turn hiring from a guessing game into an engineered outcome.

01

Culture-First Protocol

Map operating culture before opening a role. Score candidates against culture markers — not keyword matches. The Culture Scorecard ensures alignment before a single interview is booked.

Culture ScorecardAlignment ScoreCulture Index
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Strategic Alignment Protocol

Align every hire to the board's 12-month plan. Not just "fill the seat" — connect talent decisions to business outcomes. Every role has a strategic rationale, a success metric, and a timeline.

Board AlignmentOutcome MappingStrategic Brief
03

FIRE Protocol™

Fit. Impact. Readiness. Elevation. Four-axis candidate scoring that moves beyond the CV. Every shortlisted candidate arrives with a defensible, board-ready score across the dimensions that predict long-term success.

4-Axis ScoringRed Flag IndexElevation Levels
04

Outcome Protocol

The hire is the beginning. 90-day integration framework, performance tracking, culture-fit monitoring, and retention prediction. If we place them, we own the outcome — with a 98% 12-month retention guarantee.

90-Day IntegrationRetention GuaranteePredictive Insights
05 / Hiring Infrastructure

Four verticals. Global reach.
One operating standard.

SpecialismHigh Demand

Global Payroll

Payroll Transformation Hiring

Implementation specialists, payroll directors, compliance architects, HRIS transformation leads. From ADP to Dayforce to SAP — we know the systems, we know the people, and we know who can lead a multi-country payroll migration without breaking stride.

247 live roles42 countries11-day avg hire
Explore Global Payroll Recruitment
SpecialismTransforming

HR Leadership

HR Transformation Recruitment

CHROs, Heads of People, HR transformation leads, OD specialists. The function is being rebuilt from compliance to commercial. We place the leaders who drive that shift — culture architects, not policy administrators.

189 live roles38 countries13-day avg hire
Explore HR Transformation Hiring
SpecialismScaling

IT & Engineering

Engineering Scale Builds

CTOs, Engineering VPs, platform architects, DevOps leads, security engineers. When you need to build a 50-person engineering org in 90 days — or find the one principal engineer who can untangle your legacy stack — this is the infrastructure.

412 live roles56 countries9-day avg hire
Explore IT Engineering Recruitment
SpecialismStrategic

Finance & Control

Finance Transformation Hiring

CFOs, Financial Controllers, FP&A directors, audit and compliance leaders. Finance isn't back-office anymore — it's the strategic engine. We find the people who can run it at that level, across every regulatory environment on the planet.

198 live roles35 countries12-day avg hire
Explore Finance Recruitment
06 / Precision Intelligence

Real Hiring Intelligence.
Not Recruiter Promises.

Every engagement is backed by deep, actionable intelligence. Here's a snapshot of the data layer running behind every Olympus placement.

Sample Engagement Profile

Confidential Intelligence Snapshot

Active Engagement

Role

Global Head of Payroll

Company Scale

5,000–10,000 employees

Hiring Budget

$2.5M–$5M Annual

Urgency

Q2 2026 Start

Strategic Priorities

Multi-country payroll consolidation across EMEA and APAC. Migrating from legacy in-house system to Dayforce. Need a leader who has run a 20+ country implementation and can manage vendor relationships at C-suite level.

Dayforce MigrationMulti-CountryEMEA + APACC-Suite StakeholdersVendor Management
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Countries Covered

Active delivery in every time zone

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12-Month Retention

Industry average: 71%

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Average Time-to-Hire

Industry average: 14 weeks

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Live Roles Right Now

Across all four verticals

07 / Proof

These aren't testimonials.
They're interventions.

Problem

Global fintech. 14-week average hire. 34% first-year attrition. Scaling from 200 to 500 people in 12 months with no talent infrastructure.

Intervention

Embedded Velocity-tier team. FIRE Protocol™ on every shortlist. Culture Scorecard deployed org-wide.

Outcome
247hires in 6 months
97%12-month retention
Problem

FTSE 250 manufacturer. Payroll migration across 20 countries stalled — couldn’t find implementation leaders who understood both tech and compliance.

Intervention

Titan-tier engagement. Chimon market mapping across EMEA. Strategic Alignment Protocol with CFO and CHRO.

Outcome
20hires across 20 countries
11 daysaverage time-to-fill
Problem

PE-backed SaaS company. Series C. Needed an entire finance leadership team — CFO, VP Finance, FP&A Director — in 8 weeks before board review.

Intervention

Ascend-tier sprint. Seishin clarity session with CEO. FIRE Protocol™ scoring benchmarked against 340 comparable placements.

Outcome
3 C-suitehires in 6 weeks
100%still in seat at 18 months
The Next Move

Stop hiring reactively.
Start building infrastructure.

This is not a sales call. It's a 30-minute diagnostic. We'll map your hiring pipeline, identify the structural failures, and show you exactly where the Olympus Talent OS™ would change the outcome.

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