From One Critical Hire to Five: Scaling Leadership for MarcoCap Labs, a Fast-Growth, PE-Backed Business
BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING & OPERATIONS
The Impact
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5hires
Specialist and leadership hires delivered in twelve months
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4week
Average time to fill
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75%
Placed candidates who relocated to join
None of them local hires, the team headhunted a market a local-only search couldn’t have reached.
Roles Placed
- Senior Director of Quality
- Warehouse Manager
- Maintenance Manager
- Quality & Compliance Manager
- Production Manager
The client
Our client is a fast-growing contract manufacturer for beverage and sports nutrition brands, based in Florida – a vertically integrated operation spanning formulation, canning, bottling and fulfilment, built from scratch by its founders and now producing hundreds of millions of units a year for brands stocked in major national retailers.
Nexus was introduced to the business through an existing client relationship (a dairy-protein supplier facing quality concerns of its own) and what began as a single urgent hire has grown into an ongoing search partnership across the business.
The Challenge
Florida is a distribution-heavy market, not a manufacturing one, so the local pool of candidates was thin from the start. On top of that, the roles called for genuinely niche technical experience – processes like can bottling, pasteurization and characterization – narrowing the field further. And the business itself set a high bar for fit: private-equity-backed and fast-moving, with shifting priorities, long hours and constant auditor engagement, it needed people who could handle that pace on top of the technical requirements.
None of the strongest candidates were local, so every placement meant headhunting someone not actively looking and then convincing them to relocate for a role they wouldn’t have found on their own.
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Sourcing niche manufacturing expertise
from a thin local talent pool
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Convincing headhunted candidates to relocate for a fast-paced, PE-backed business
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Finding people who could match the intensity
of a fast-growing, audit-heavy operation
