Representative Search Projects in Supply Chain Management

Our client, Treasury Wine Estates, one of the largest wine companies in the world, recently retained Adam Zak Executive Search to conduct an executive search for its new Vice President, Fulfillment Operations. This is a critical supply chain management role with full responsibility for the company’s fulfillment operations in Canada, the United States, and South America.  Take a look at the innovative approach we utilized to promote this position and to entice outstanding candidates to burn up our phone lines calling about this excellent career opportunity. Visit  VPSupplyChain.com  to see for yourself why this could indeed be the best supply chain job in America today!

Our client, a major international US-based manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor of proprietary branded passenger, UHP, truck, off-road and industrial and specialty tires, retained Adam Zak Executive Search to identify and recruit the company’s new Senior Vice President, World-Wide Supply Chain. The company’s reach extends from North and South America to Europe and Asia with product offered in over 90 countries. With customers and a supplier network literally across the globe, and total SKUs exceeding 10,000, the challenges of running this complex supply chain organization were indeed immense. Our search approach took us throughout North America and into China as well, with the result that we were able to identify and recruit a related-industry multinational executive with the deep, hands-on experience necessary for this Lean supply chain role.

Our client, Andersen Corporation (aka Andersen Windows & Doors), retained us to help identify and recruit one of their top new supply chain executives, their Vice President of Strategic Procurement.  Andersen viewed strategic procurement  as the development of a true partnership between themselves and key suppliers of strategic value. They were looking to negotiate and build long-term arrangements, many single-source in nature, to addresses not only the buying of parts, products, and services, but also product design and supplier capacity. Such partnering agreements would allow for the mutual exchange of confidential information, proprietary restrictions, non-disclosure, non-compete, certification of processes, routine audits, delivery performance, quality performance, as well as the transfer of control of certain processes and  product. That’s a lot on one executive’s plate. We undertook this search assignment with a clear understanding of how important this new VP would be to Andersen’s operational success, and how critical would be this new member of their senior leadership team. This executive search was also completed successfully in record time.