The right leader, for exactly as long as it matters.

A fractional executive is a senior C-suite leader, typically with 15 or more years of operating experience, who embeds directly into your business on a part-time or retained basis. The engagement is structured as a company-to-company contract, so no employment relationship is created and no work permit is required. Your leader holds the decisions in their domain, executes alongside your team, and is accountable to business outcomes, for the share of time the role actually requires. The model is well established globally and increasingly relevant to the fast-growth manufacturers, scale-ups and foreign-invested enterprises shaping Saigon's economy.

Engagements typically cost 30 to 60% less than a full-time executive at the same level of seniority. A permanent CFO in Ho Chi Minh City runs roughly VND150 to 250 million a month, around US$6,000 to 11,000, before the 21.5 to 22% employer contributions for social, health and unemployment insurance, the customary 13th-month Tet bonus, and the half-month-per-year statutory severance you carry on exit. A fractional engagement is invoiced cleanly between entities, with none of that on-cost, and you retain one month's notice to adjust the scope or conclude the arrangement. Most engagements run between six and twenty-four months.

The model suits any business that needs genuine board-level capability before it can justify a full-time hire. In the post-merger city, with its roughly 78 industrial parks and the Cai Mep deep-water ports now inside the boundary, that typically means export-manufacturing SMEs in electronics, garments, footwear and furniture upgrading operations to win global-brand supply contracts; VC-backed technology scale-ups professionalising their leadership ahead of a Series A or B raise, in a city that hosts around half of Vietnam's startups; and foreign-invested enterprises establishing or restructuring their Vietnam operations. The common thread is a pivotal commercial moment where the cost of the wrong decision outweighs the cost of the right leader.

A consultant produces analysis and recommendations, then steps away. An interim is typically a full-time, short-term placement. A fractional executive embeds for the share of time the role needs, holds decision-making authority in their function, and is measured on outcomes rather than deliverables. They work inside your business alongside your team, not at arm's length from it, for as long as the leadership moment requires.

Most engagements move from an initial conversation to a matched and embedded executive within a few weeks, well inside the four-to-six months a permanent search would take in a market where MNCs pay 25 to 40% premiums and still leave senior seats empty. We search our collective of 350+ curated and vetted executives across finance, operations, technology, revenue and people functions, and you choose. Behind every individual placement sits the depth of the full collective, so you are never dependent on a single person's range of experience.