From one succession hire to five: How Nexus became JDE’s go-to partner for operations and engineering leadership.
MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING
The Impact
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5
Senior leadership hires
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83days
From launching search to placement
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1in 4
First Interviews convert to a placement
Across five senior leadership hires in operations and engineering, delivered in just under two years.
Roles Placed
- Plant Director, Urecht
- Plant Director
- Engineering Director, Europe
- Global PMO Director
- Operations Manager, Germany
The client
Our client is one of the world’s largest coffee companies, a European-headquartered group with a portfolio of major and local coffee brands, revenue in excess of €9.9 billion a year, more than 21,000 employees, and a presence in over 100 markets worldwide.
The client had a number of key leadership roles opening up across operations and engineering without the internal succession pipeline to fill the gaps. They needed to go external, starting with one Plant Director search at a flagship site that also houses their headquarters function. That search went well enough that the client came back for a number of further searches across operations and engineering to fill the other gaps.
The Challenge
Every one of these searches was backfilling someone who’d been genuinely successful in the role, which raised the bar rather than lowering it, the team needed candidates capable of stepping in and immediately exceeding what a well-regarded predecessor had already delivered, in high-visibility factory and engineering leadership positions.
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Finding candidates capable of exceeding an already-successful predecessor, role after role
Finding candidates capable of exceeding an already-successful predecessor, role after role -
Placing a plant leader fluent in a highly unionised environment
Placing a plant leader fluent in a highly unionised environment -
Sourcing niche operations and engineering leadership able to hit the ground running from day one
Sourcing niche operations and engineering leadership able to hit the ground running from day one
