Case Study:
How We Helped a Seattle Consumer Products Company Define and Fill Its HR Director Role
About the Industry:
Consumer products companies rely on HR to support many different teams, from product development to sales, and this Seattle company needed an HR Director to lead that work.
Location:
Seattle, WA
Position Title:
HR Director
Type of Role
Direct Hire
Industry Type:
Consumer Products
Testimonial from Client
Challenge:
The company was going through multiple transitions within its HR team, along with newly created roles. That made it difficult to determine the best path forward for the HR Director role, especially as priorities kept changing.
The company came to Mulberry for help with HR recruiting in Seattle. It wanted two things: a clear definition of the role, and an HR Director who fit what the team truly needed.
Solution:
Since this was a leadership role, we ran it as an executive search in Seattle. We kept a diligent, committed cadence of check-ins with the company’s leaders so the search kept making forward progress, even as priorities changed. Through these conversations, we identified the key criteria for the role and the company’s true need.
We continued to pipeline and present candidates throughout the search. We reached active job seekers as well as HR leaders in our network who weren’t looking for a new role. In all, we vetted 19 candidates and presented 10 to the company, each with a summary of their background.
Presenting that many candidates gave the company full exposure to the talent market and gave its leaders confidence in making their hiring decision.
Outcome: Consumer Products Company Fills HR Director Position in Seattle
Working as the company’s Seattle recruiting partner, Mulberry Talent Partners placed an HR Director after a three-month search. The company made its choice after seeing a wide range of candidates, so its leaders knew how their pick compared with the rest of the market.
The new HR Director’s strengths matched the role the company had defined during the search. With that leader in place, the HR team had clear direction as its new roles took shape.