Market Director, Commercial Staffing

Chicago, IL 60652

Employment Type: Full-time Industry: Area Director Job Number: 6820 Is this job hybrid?:

Job Description


Market Director, Commercial Staffing  

15+ years staffing industry experience required

This leader can call one of 4 suburban Chicago cities their home office. (Bourbonnais, Romeoville, Schaumburg, Wheeling).

Are you a staffing leader looking for your next opportunity?  Join an extremely tenured and performing region as you lean on your sales strategies and lead within a robust organization and culture, locally.

This position will be highly visible and offers a significant opportunity to add value and add to the growth strategy in place.

We’re hiring for a Market Director to lead multiple Market Leaders and a $30m+ P&L into 2024 and beyond.  Our client is looking for a seasoned professional to slide into an already tenured and engaged team and breath some additional life and support into sales strategy and sales excellence.

What you will do:
  • You will have full P&L ownership along with the autonomy to build out strategic plans and initiatives.
  • The opportunity to lead sales, recruitment and operations.


What we’re looking for:
  • Strong financial acumen / P&L experience – successful experience managing a market between $70 -100 million in size.
  • Developing and implementing business strategies, managing staff, and driving revenue growth and profitability.
  • Strong strategic and operational leadership, including team building and decision-making skills.


What you get:
  • $175k+ base compensation plus bonus and overrides.
  • Industry leading benefits.


Job Number 6820

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Additional Information

MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.

Meet Your Recruiter

Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter

With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.

Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.

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