How Truity Partners helped a Milwaukee-based, growing real estate investment organization define, attract, and hire its first Vice President of Operations to drive scalability, infrastructure, and long-term success.
Client:
A rapidly growing real estate investment organization was in search of a Vice President of Operations to meet their immediate project management needs while also implementing the infrastructure and technology needed to sustain future growth. In creating this new role, the organization sought an experienced operations leader who could assist the executive leadership team in driving initiatives and bringing best practice insight to this flourishing enterprise.
Partnership:
Our Truity Partners firm had built a strong relationship with the client through successful contingent placements, and the Executive Search team was introduced to the client through our contingent search team. The company had not used retained search services prior and expressed their hesitation in doing so, but after outlining the nature of the search, the scale of the company’s growing operations, and the support a retained search brings to the recruiting process, our Executive Search team was chosen to lead the search.
Our Unique Value:
With an established relationship as the foundation, our Truity team designed a search and interview strategy tailored to the client’s goals and held weekly meetings with the hiring team to gather input and facilitate timely decision-making. With our strong presence in the Milwaukee market, our team offered comprehensive updates on the competitive landscape and, with continuous feedback from the hiring team, we were able to pivot our search parameters as needed.
As this was a newly created role, our Executive Search team met with the organization’s key stakeholders prior to speaking with candidates to identify key leadership characteristics, optimal career and industry experiences, and successful traits a candidate would possess that would complement and enhance not only their operations, but their existing culture. After identifying these elements, our team developed a research strategy tailored specifically to meet the client’s needs. Through a localized search in Milwaukee, the Executive Search team targeted high-achieving operations leaders with financial or professional services consulting backgrounds or directly from industry who were equally passionate about transformation initiatives in growing enterprises and aligning with company culture. This resulted in a strong and diverse selection of candidates for the hiring team to evaluate.
Process:
Upon narrowing down the candidate slate, Truity Partners coordinated and managed a full-day, on-site interview process for key leadership to meet all prospective candidates, with the goal of narrowing the pool to one to two finalists. This involved managing multiple client and candidate schedules, providing interview materials with sample questions to the hiring team, and providing on-site administrative support to ensure a smooth and timely decision-making process.
Results:
After reviewing candidates with varied industry and operational leadership experience, the client selected a finalist from the financial services consulting field, whose extensive experience in managing large-scale enterprise projects and alignment with the company’s culture made them the ideal choice. The candidate was thrilled, sharing with our Executive Search team that this is “a dream job,” and has made an immediate impact on the organization. The client was highly satisfied, not only with the caliber of candidates and successful completion of the search in under 75 days, but also with the level of partnership, communication, and support provided throughout the process. As a result, the company recommended our Executive Search team to another client seeking top tier recruiting support.