An Improving Housing Industry – Westport International

It shouldn’t be new news to anyone that the housing market has seen its ups and downs since the recession. While the past 6-7 years have shown us that there is a long ways yet to go to recover what this market once was, recent changes have also given a positive indication of growth and stability. Home building markets and home sales have improved, and recent acquisitions in the housing industry also indicated that companies are becoming more willing to takes risks again. This also means that these companies are willing to increase hiring activity and can invest in sourcing the best talent for their organizations.

These positive indicators all tell of an industry that is beginning to be revitalized. Our own experience tells the same story. Recently, we have supported a $6 Bil. building products manufacturer to develop their organization. Through this 2.5 year-long project, we successfully placed leaders and professionals across their entire organization, strengthening their operations, quality, sales, engineering, and supply chain functions. We also assisted in developing a capable talent acquisition team, allowing them to focus on future growth.

Through a multifaceted approach, we leveraged all parts of our firm to successfully complete this project (our retained executive search group Westport Intl, our contingency group PinPoint Solutions, and PinPoint Talent Solutions, our dedicated talent acquisition and sourcing team). Below are just a few of the placements made during this project:

Vice President of Sales
Director of IT
Director of Engineering
Director of Finance
Director of Research & Development
EHS Director
Quality Systems Manager

As the housing industry continue to improve, we continue to expand as well, bringing in business with several other building products manufacturing companies. Our goal is to continue growing this area, an industry which we see will continue to expand and improve.

Wesport Intl is committed to providing dedicated support to each of our clients through a dedicated search process. We have design a custom approach for our clients, working in concert with their unique corporate culture and values as well as within the context of their complex hiring needs. As business strategists and leading search consultants, Westport Intl effectively partners with each client based on a responsive, integrated search model to minimize risk and to consistently execute innovative, cost-effective solutions.