Market Director- Light Industrial- Detroit
Job Description
5+ years staffing industry experience required. Candidates should be local with flexibility to travel across the region. Hybrid role with branch and client-site presence expected.
Are you ready to lead a mature staffing market through a next-level performance transformation?
Our client, is a global leader in workforce solutions, delivering talent across commercial, professional, and industrial sectors. In the Detroit market, they’re looking to strengthen GP, optimize team performance, and navigate evolving industry dynamics.
We’re hiring a Market Director to oversee and elevate this mature market across multiple sites.
What You Will Do:
- Lead $17.5M in revenue across Livonia, Warren, and client sites.
- Manage and coach Account Managers, Talent Advisors/Recruiters, and AEs.
- Drive GP, revenue growth, and EBITA improvement.
- Expand client relationships and deepen share in existing accounts.
- Spearhead change management across a long-tenured, comfort-zone team.
- Support multiple staffing verticals: light industrial, electronics assembly, BPO, professional.
- Understand and leverage VMS/ATS and staffing technology.
- Maintain visibility with corporate leadership.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of staffing P&L leadership ($10M+ market).
- Experience managing multi-site operations and on-site staffing.
- Strong sales orientation with demonstrated business development success.
- Proven ability to lead and transform legacy teams.
- Knowledge of light industrial staffing and margin improvement strategies.
- Comfortable with VMS, recruiting platforms, and tech-enabled staffing.
- Metrics-driven, with focus on GP, fill rates, NPS, client retention.
- Collaborative and corporate savvy.
Required Skills:
- Deep experience in commercial or light industrial staffing.
- P&L, budget ownership, and operational leadership.
- Competence in recruiting, sales management, and team leadership.
- Familiarity with VMS/ATS and staffing reporting systems.
What You Get:
- Competitive base and performance-based incentives.
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO.
- High-visibility role with national brand support.
- Opportunity to drive transformation and growth in a key market.
Job Number 7405
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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.
