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Executive Search Cyprus

JN Recruitment runs executive search in Cyprus for machinery, industrial technology and recycling companies — from our own office in Larnaca, in Greek and English, at leadership level. We find the Managing Directors, Country Managers and Heads of Sales who run the island’s industrial business, through confidential retained direct search.

  • Leadership mandates from Nicosia to Limassol — searched from our own Larnaca office
  • 100% industrial B2B — machinery, industrial technology & recycling
  • Confidential mandates: succession, replacement and market entry handled under NDA
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Our niches
  • Machinery & plant engineering
  • Industrial technology
  • Recycling & environmental technology
2–4 weeks

to your first shortlist of referenced Cypriot executives

6–12 weeks

from briefing to signed contract — short Cypriot notice periods keep start dates close

100% focus

industrial leadership and sales — no generalist recruiting

HQ Larnaca

our own office on the island — Cyprus is the market we know from the inside

Headhunter Cyprus

Your executive headhunter for the Cypriot market

On an island market, leadership is a known quantity — literally. The Managing Directors and Heads of Sales who run Cypriot industrial business form a circle where everyone knows everyone: the contractors, the ship managers of Limassol, the importers of Nicosia, the municipal operators commissioning EU-funded recycling plants. That is precisely what makes executive hiring hard here: an advert reaches nobody, and a clumsy approach is island news by the weekend.

We work this market from the inside. JN Recruitment’s own office sits in Larnaca, which makes us the rare headhunter for Cyprus that meets executives in person, references discreetly across the island and knows what leadership actually costs here. Every Cypriot mandate is a confidential retained direct search, run in Greek and English by consultants who live and work on the island — with shortlists built on verifiable P&L and capital-equipment track records, not keyword-matched CVs.

Typical Cypriot mandates: the first Country Manager or Managing Director for an international manufacturer establishing a direct presence, a General Manager for a local operation, or a leadership hire with regional scope across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. And for the sales team beneath the leader, the same house runs our sales recruitment for Cyprus — one partner for the whole commercial organisation.

Positions we fill

Leadership positions we recruit in Cyprus

From the Managing Director of a Cypriot Ltd to the Head of Sales covering the whole island — these are the executive roles our search practice fills in Cyprus, each referenced at leadership level.

Managing Director / General Manager

Runs the Cypriot Ltd end to end — P&L, team, key customers and the parent-company relationship. On an island where reputation travels fast, the most trust-sensitive search a manufacturer commissions.

Country Manager Cyprus

The market-entry hire: converts a distributor-led export business into a direct presence, wins the island’s reference customers and builds the local organisation — often the group’s first employee in Cyprus.

Jobs, salaries & recruitment

Head of Sales Cyprus

The classic second-level executive mandate: leads the island-wide sales operation across contractors, ship managers and municipalities — pipeline discipline in a market that still runs on personal trust.

Sales Director Cyprus & Eastern Mediterranean

Regional commercial leadership run from Limassol or Nicosia — Cyprus as the hub for Greece, the Middle East and North Africa, aligning distributors and project business into one accountable number.

Business Unit / Division Director

Owns a product line across engineering, project delivery and commercial results — marine and port equipment, construction machinery, recycling plants — a search that demands genuine knowledge of the island’s project landscape.

Head of Service & After-Sales

Leads the installed-base business — service contracts, spare parts, retrofits — where island logistics make service quality the deciding argument, and proven service leadership the scarcest profile.

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Market knowledge

Hiring executives in Cyprus: what employers should know

Cypriot executive employment has its own legal and cultural logic — from statutory notice measured in weeks to contracts drafted in the English legal tradition. The essentials we brief every client on before a Cypriot leadership search starts:

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Months of notice at leadership level

Statutory notice in Cyprus scales with tenure from just one to eight weeks — so executive protection is contractual, and senior contracts typically agree one to three months. Even so, a Cypriot leader is on board far faster than a German counterpart; we plan every search backwards from your target start date.

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Executive terms are set by contract, not statute

Cypriot employment law is deliberately light-touch and company law follows the English tradition: directors of a Cypriot Ltd carry fiduciary duties under the Companies Law, and longer notice, non-competes and bonus terms only exist if written into the service agreement. Serious candidates negotiate those terms carefully — your offer must arrive with them already structured.

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Salary payments — also at executive level

A 13th salary paid in December is standard practice across the Cypriot private sector, executive level included, and packages run fixed-heavy with a results-based bonus and a company car. We quote every benchmark in consolidated annual gross so your Cypriot offers stay comparable with the rest of Europe.

NDA

On an island, discretion is the whole game

Cyprus is a market where a careless reference call in Nicosia reaches Limassol before lunch. We run replacement and succession mandates without naming your company, reference through trusted island contacts, and reveal your identity only at shortlist stage — local presence is what makes that discretion possible.

Salary benchmarks

Executive salaries in Cyprus: current benchmarks

What does industrial leadership cost in Cyprus? Annual gross compensation in EUR for executive roles in machinery, industrial technology and recycling — 13 payments consolidated, bonus components included, company car not included:

Position Base salary Total cash (on-target)
Managing Director Cyprus €80,000 – 110,000 €105,000 – 150,000
Country Manager Cyprus €60,000 – 85,000 €80,000 – 110,000
Sales Director Cyprus & Eastern Mediterranean €60,000 – 85,000 €78,000 – 105,000
Business Unit Director €65,000 – 90,000 €85,000 – 115,000
Head of Sales Cyprus €55,000 – 75,000 €70,000 – 95,000
Head of Service & After-Sales €48,000 – 65,000 €60,000 – 82,000

Source: JN Recruitment placement and interview data, industrial B2B, Cyprus. Limassol’s shipping and energy cluster prices 10–15% above the island range; regional Eastern-Mediterranean scope pushes packages towards the top of it.

Cyprus Q&A

Executive search in Cyprus: frequently asked questions

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We run retained executive search for industrial leadership roles in Cyprus: systematic mapping of every relevant company and executive in your niche, confidential direct approach in Greek and English, structured interviews and island references at leadership level, salary benchmarking against the Cypriot market, and support through offer, contract negotiation, resignation and notice period until your executive actually starts. Every mandate is handled end-to-end from our own office in Larnaca.

No. Executive search covers the first and second leadership level: alongside Managing Directors and General Managers, the classic Cypriot mandates are Heads of Sales, Sales Directors, Country Managers and Business Unit Directors — every position with P&L or revenue responsibility that cannot be filled through job adverts. On an island market, a Head of Sales search is executive search in every respect: confidential, direct, referenced at leadership level.

Exclusively industrial B2B: machinery and plant engineering, construction and building-materials equipment, marine and port technology around the Limassol shipping cluster, automation and industrial components, and recycling and environmental technology — a sector Cyprus is currently building out with EU funding. This focus means we know the executives, their employers and their compensation in your Cypriot niche before your briefing call ends.

The large global firms serve Cyprus remotely, and their island depth sits in shipping, forex and financial services — not in the Managing Director of an equipment importer or the Head of Sales for recycling technology. A boutique with an office in Larnaca and total industry focus starts inside your niche: we know the candidates and their island reputations, you work directly with the consultant who owns your mandate, and our fees sit well below big-firm level.

Yes — and on an island, that discipline is decisive. Many Cypriot mandates replace an incumbent who has not yet been informed, or prepare a market entry competitors should not learn about. We approach candidates without naming your company, take references through trusted island contacts, and reveal your identity only to shortlisted, seriously interested executives at the agreed stage — local presence is what lets us do this without a ripple.

You typically receive a first shortlist within 2–4 weeks, and most Cypriot leadership mandates are signed within 6–12 weeks. Cyprus then has a structural advantage on the start date: statutory notice scales from one to eight weeks and even senior contractual notice rarely exceeds three months — so a Cypriot executive often starts months earlier than an equivalent hire in Germany or Austria. We keep signed executives committed until day one.

A Managing Director of an industrial business in Cyprus typically earns €80,000–110,000 base and €105,000–150,000 total cash, annual gross; a Head of Sales €55,000–75,000 base and €70,000–95,000 on-target. Packages usually include a 13th payment in December, a results-based bonus and a company car. We benchmark every mandate against current island market data before the search starts.

Cypriot statutory employment protection is thin by EU standards — notice caps at eight weeks — so everything that matters at executive level lives in the service agreement, drafted in the English legal tradition: contractual notice, bonus mechanics, non-competes and, for directors of a Cypriot Ltd, fiduciary duties under the Companies Law. Contracts and negotiations routinely run in English, which keeps things straightforward for international employers — we structure the offer so it holds at the contract stage.

Yes — that is the point of one specialised house. Executive search covers the Managing Director, Country Manager and Head of Sales level; our sales recruitment practice fills the Sales Managers, Area Sales Managers and Technical Sales Engineers who report to them. Many Cypriot clients combine both: first the leader through executive search, then the team beneath through sales recruitment — one briefing, one partner, one quality bar.

Yes — and that sets us apart. JN Recruitment’s office at Artemidos 6 in Larnaca is one of our three European locations, alongside Germany and Poland. Cypriot leadership searches are run by consultants who live and work on the island: direct approach and interviews in Greek and English, references checked with local industry contacts, and candidate meetings in person.

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Jonas Strambach – Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
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Jonas Strambach Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
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