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Specialist search · Non-IT · India

The person you need has never applied to anything.

We run searches for industrial and non-IT roles. Every mandate goes to someone who has spent fifteen years inside that industry and knows its people by name. Because for roles that matter, a database finds nobody.

No retainer Paid on joining, not on offer 90-day replacement guarantee
Searched Sept 2026 India's largest CV database held 6 active profiles nationally for concrete admixture formulation. We found the rest by phone.
Where we work

Industrial and non-IT.

Sales, operations, R&D, technical, finance and plant leadership — specialist individual contributors up to CXO.

Also working in captive infrastructure and BPO and shared services. If your sector isn't here, ask anyway — the answer is a straight yes or no.

A real mandate

Brief on Monday. Ranked shortlist by Friday week.

A specialist search for a concrete admixture formulation role, start to shortlist. Timings are from a live mandate; the client is not named.

day 00 · 09:14Brief taken from the hiring manager — 45 minutes, on the phone. Why the last one left. Who you already rejected.
day 00 · 16:02Written brief returned → confirmed by client the same evening.
Same day
Brief taken and written back

Forty-five minutes with the person who owns the seat, confirmed in writing before the day ends.

Two days later
Four names, none on a database

One specialist calls into a network they already have. Senior, employed, invisible to search.

Day six
Five ranked, with reasoning

Technically screened by someone who does the work. Two rejected before you ever saw them.

Two of the five came from the database. Three came from one phone call by someone who has worked in that industry since 2001.

Why us

Four things a consultancy won't do.

One mandate, one specialist

Your search isn't staffed by whoever is free this week.

A consultancy assigns the recruiter with capacity. We pick one connector for this mandate — fifteen years or more inside your sector, chosen for this role, not a recruiter with a portal login.

MANDATE 25 YRS · ADMIXTURES not this one not this one
Reach

The people you want are not looking.

They are employed, senior, and have not touched a CV in four years. They don't appear in a keyword search — and they pick up the phone because of who is calling, not because a recruiter found them.

DATABASE ✓ ONE PHONE CALL
Validation

Checked by someone who has done the job.

A specialist asks whether the candidate can answer real questions about their own work — not whether the keyword is on the CV. On this mandate, two of four were rejected for having sold the product but never formulated it.

candidate 01 candidate 02 candidate 03 candidate 04 passed passed sold it, never made it
Shortlist

Five we would defend, not thirty we found.

Ranked, in our order, with our reasoning written down. If our first isn't yours, we want to know why. And if we only have two worth your time, you get two and an explanation.

01formulated PCE at scale · 14 yrs 02plant + lab, lighter on SNF 03strong QC, less formulation 04would need relocation 05notice period 90 days
The shape of the firm

Small on purpose.

6Formulators findable nationally by search
≤10Specialists on the bench, capped
21dBrief to ranked shortlist
90dReplacement guarantee
Who we are

A small firm, deliberately.

New, and saying so

RecMaf is early. We would rather tell you that than pretend to a decade of history. What we are not is generalist.

Founded by a recruiter

Parth Raizada spent his career in non-IT search — pre-engineered buildings, building materials, manufacturing, healthcare — placing freshers through to CXO, and leading a recruiting team before he was twenty-three.

We decline searches

If we do not have a specialist who knows your field, we say so and you lose nothing. A mandate we cannot staff properly is one we should not take.

For industry specialists

You know these people. We do everything else.

Twenty years inside one industry means you know who is good, who is unhappy, and who would take the call. Nobody has ever paid you for that. We work with fewer than ten specialists, one mandate at a time. No platform, no signup, no commitment.

You do

Make four calls into a network you already have. Say who is worth approaching, and whether a candidate is the real thing.

We do

The client, the brief, contracts, scheduling, chasing, negotiation, invoicing. Every part you would hate.

You get

An agreed share of the fee, in rupees, settled in writing before you make a single call. Paid the week the candidate joins.

You keep

Your relationships. We never ask for your contact list, and you never hand over a name you would rather introduce yourself.

Paid the week they join — not when the client settles with us. Start a conversation

Questions

The obvious ones.

What do you charge?
A percentage of the candidate's annual package, invoiced on their date of joining. Not on offer, not after probation. Mid-level and senior roles sit in the normal Indian contingency range; leadership and genuinely scarce specialisms are higher. We quote a rupee figure before you commit to anything.
How is this different from my current consultancy?
They search a database and forward what matches. That works when the right people are looking. Our whole method assumes they are not — so every mandate is worked by someone who knows the industry personally, and every candidate is technically checked before it reaches you.
How long does a search take?
Twenty-one days from a confirmed brief to a ranked shortlist for most mandates. Genuinely scarce specialisms take longer and we will say so upfront rather than send you filler in week two.
What if the person leaves?
Ninety-day replacement guarantee — we run the search again at no fee. We offer a replacement rather than a refund, and we will tell you honestly if we think the role, not the person, was the problem.
How many candidates will I see?
Usually five. Occasionally three. Ranked, in our order, with written reasoning for each. If we only have two worth your time, you get two and an explanation — sending you volume to look busy is the thing you already dislike about agencies.
Do you work outside these sectors?
Only where we have a specialist who knows the field. The bench is capped at ten people on purpose. If your sector is not on the list, ask anyway — the answer is a straight yes or no.
Get in touch

One role you are stuck on.

If a position has been open too long, tell us about it. We will tell you within a week whether we can fill it, and decline if we cannot. If you have spent your career inside one industry, the arrangement above is worth a conversation.