San-Marie Barnard

Principal Consultant

BA (Hons); Dip Business Management

San-Marie brings a global approach to search, and is a deep specialist in the agriculture, insurance, technology and energy sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa, the USA, South America and MENA. She started her executive recruitment career in the FMCG, engineering and mining sectors, and she takes a leading role in the Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group within the IRC Global Executive Search Alliance.

San-Marie has a uniquely broad range of skills – she leads the research teams on multi-country search projects, and she plays a hybrid role in both client and candidate facing capacities at Jack Hammer.

She is known for her direct approach, asking the hard questions and cutting to the chase – which is what delivers exceptional results for her clients.

For San-Marie, success is based on persistence, not luck. The words most often used by clients and candidates to describe her are ‘extremely knowledgeable, dedicated and tenacious’.

She is an avid traveller! This has created broad personal and professional networks to draw on across Africa and other continents and leaves her with wanderlust and admiration for the beautiful planet we live on.