Placement Report
Result Placement
Days to Present Placed Candidate 42
Days to Placement 89
Total Candidates Presented 9
Total Candidates Interviewed by Client 7
Total Prospects DDI Spoke With 14
Lead Consultant

Alex Zebrowski

Director: Building Technologies

Company Description

National HVAC Service Contractor

Job Title

President

How long was client searching prior to our involvement?

1 week.

Did client have internal recruiting resources?

The operating company has an internal recruitment team. The parent company does not have centralized recruitment services.

Why was this a real problem for the client?

The President of one of the corporation’s largest operating companies was retiring after a long and successful career with the team. With his retirement, the Parent company realized that none of the internal leaders were either interested in or ready to take on the responsibility. As a result, the organization needed to find the right individual to fill these shoes. This was extremely challenging due to the role itself. This President oversees 6 satellite offices in 4 states spanning the Central Region, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic, each with its own P&L leader. Finding the right individual with the pedigree to take on a $120M+ business is challenging enough… but when you factor in the other leaders, they needed someone who could be a servant leader and lead through influence rather than authoritarian mandates. At this level, they also wanted to review multiple candidate slates to ensure they made the best hiring decision possible. We were able to provide them 2 main groupings of candidates… one in the first 2 weeks of the search with 4 candidates (1 of which was the other finalist and was deemed suitable/hirable should the finalist decline the offer), as well as a second slate of 5 candidates 1.5 months into the search. The second grouping included the finalist candidate who ultimately accepted the role.

How did this opportunity help the candidate?

The candidate had built one of the Midwest’s premier mechanical contractors. This said, he is nearing the last decade of his career, and he knew that ultimately, he wanted to relocate to the Southeast. This opportunity allowed him to relocate his family to an area they had always wanted to live in while also transitioning from leading a ~$90M mechanical contractor to leading a multi-region $120M+ contractor. The individual also has a knack for implementing change through an organization with multiple VPs and Directors and doing it in a way that yields results while preserving relationships, which is exactly what our client needed.