Metso is a publicly traded Finnish company founded in 1999. The company provides technology and services for the mining, aggregates, recycling, and metal refining industries. To move their technical development from external vendors to an internal model, the company required a new R&D Centre of Excellence in Krakow.

Metso previously relied on outsourced software development teams for their technical projects. In 2023, they decided to bring this work in-house by establishing a dedicated team in Krakow. The company needed to hire every key function, including a site manager, HR director, and engineering manager, while also selecting an office. They required a partner who could manage this transition and onboard 100 people while offboarding the old outsourced teams.

We won the RFP to act as the local partner for the Krakow hub setup in late 2023. We used our recruiters in Warsaw and our HR and payroll team in Krakow to manage the project. Our team performed market mapping to identify talent and conducted executive searches for top-level leadership roles. We managed the full recruitment cycle for developers and engineers while providing project management and consultancy on the hub setup.

Technical roles recruited

• Frontend and Backend Developers for core software projects

• Engineering Managers to lead the new internal departments

• DevOps and Data Engineers for system infrastructure

We hired the key leadership functions and 100 technical staff over a 12-month period. This allowed Metso to successfully move their development in-house and offboard their previous external vendors. By using our consultancy and recruitment framework, the company reduced its hiring and operational costs by 35%. We are now preparing to start a second project with Metso later this year.