Candidate-side executive job-search strategy for GCC leaders

Become visible before senior GCC roles go public.

In 60 days, I help Directors, VPs and GMs sharpen their executive position, identify where leadership demand is forming, map the right companies and decision-makers, and run a focused outreach campaign.

For established leaders who are not looking to send more applications, chase recruiters, or rely on chance. This is a sharper, intelligence-led executive job search across the GCC — a direct route into the private senior opportunity market.

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What you will have after 60 days

A sharper position, a prioritised GCC market and a focused route to the right decision-makers.

You will leave with more than advice: a clearer executive narrative, a mapped target market and a live campaign built around where relevant leadership demand may be forming.

Executive positioning

Make your value clear at senior level

We sharpen how your experience, leadership scope and commercial impact are presented across your executive narrative, CV and LinkedIn — so decision-makers quickly understand where you fit and why you are relevant now.

Priority-company map

Know which companies deserve your attention

You receive a prioritised map of GCC companies where growth, expansion, restructuring or leadership change may create relevant demand — so you focus on credible opportunities instead of applying everywhere.

Decision-maker map

Know who to approach — and in what order

For each priority company, we identify the people most likely to own, influence or introduce a senior hiring decision. We then map the strongest approach sequence, beginning with credible warm routes where available.

Guided live campaign

Turn the market map into focused action

You launch targeted outreach in your own name using tailored positioning and messaging. We review market feedback weekly, refine the approach and prepare you for conversations, interviews and negotiation as opportunities develop.

Also part of the engagement

  • A defined target-role and GCC market strategy
  • Recruiter positioning where relevant
  • A clear decision path beyond day 60
Explore the 60-Day Engagement
Daniel Sterenzon, founder of Sterenzon Advisory, executive positioning advisor for senior GCC leaders
The Founder

Helping senior leaders become visible, trusted, and chosen.

Sterenzon Advisory is led by Daniel Sterenzon, an executive positioning advisor with over a decade of experience across HR, advisory and market-facing work.

He works with senior leaders in the UAE and Saudi Arabia — and across the wider GCC.

The work combines practical advisory, market intelligence, AI-supported research and decision-maker mapping — a structured process built around one outcome: helping senior professionals become more visible, more credible and more likely to be considered by the right market.

Daniel Sterenzon

Founder, Sterenzon Advisory

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Senior opportunities begin before the vacancy does.

Expansion, restructures, leadership changes and new market entry create leadership demand long before a role is advertised. The leaders who move fastest get visible earlier — while the role is still taking shape.

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Candidate-side strategy, not recruitment.

Recruiters represent employers. Sterenzon Advisory works for the candidate — helping you understand where demand is forming, who matters, and how to become visible before the role becomes public.

Before building this advisory practice, I spent years inside senior talent markets across Saudi Arabia and the GCC — including executive search exposure with Michael Page. That gave me a direct view of how leadership opportunities move, how decision-makers assess talent, and why strong professionals stay invisible until their positioning is fixed.

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From market signals to a focused campaign.

Market intelligence becomes a prioritised company map, decision-maker research and focused outreach you lead in your own name. Not more applications — a sharper route to the right conversations.

How the hidden job market works

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A focused 60-day engagement.

The 60-day executive advisory engagement runs across three phases: Repositioning, Market Mapping and a Live Campaign. It doesn't guarantee an offer — it builds a more focused path to the right conversations.

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Repositioning

Fix how you show up before any outreach.

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Market Mapping

Find where demand is forming before roles go public.

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Live Campaign

Turn the map into the right conversations.

Inside the 60-day engagement

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Built for senior leaders in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Directors, VPs, Heads of Function, GMs, Country and Regional Leaders — and selected C-suite — across the UAE, KSA and the wider GCC.

See who it's for

Become visible before the role becomes public

Start a conversation.

Every inquiry is reviewed directly and in confidence. If there's a clear fit, I'll reply with the next step.

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The weekly signal

One brief. Once a week.

How the GCC senior market really moves — hidden-market mechanics, sharper positioning, and the mistakes that keep strong leaders invisible. Read in five minutes. No noise.

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