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Supply Chain Recruiters
SCM Talent Group’s supply chain recruiters transform companies with leadership talent. Fill out our form or call 1-877-236-0420 to speak to an executive recruiter.
Supply Chain Management
Transportation & Logistics
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Supply & Demand Planning
Manufacturing
Continuous Improvment
S&OP
Operations
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Our Supply Chain Recruiters Help You:
Build a Resilient Supply Chain
Weak talent in your supply chain can make it difficult to achieve your business goals while putting your company at great risk. Partner with our supply chain recruiters to help propel your business to new heights. 100% specialized in end-to-end supply chain recruitment for 15+ years.
1,500+ supply chain positions filled to date, spanning most industries.
Founder, Rodney Apple, has 20+ years of supply chain recruitment experience at world-class organizations, several amongst the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25.
Supply Chain Talent Services
Custom tailoring searches to the client’s needs assessments. We are able to source and place the best supply chain talent because we are supply chain experts.
Career Resources
SCM Talent Group’s career resources are here to help supply chain professionals at any level develop and advance their careers.
SCM Talent Groups Supply Chain Recruiting Team:
Rodney Apple
Founder & Managing Partner
Jordan West
Head of SCM Partnerships
Emily Unger
Executive Supply Chain Recruiter & Training Manager
Brian Kennedy
Marketing Manager
Dallas Lovett
Senior Supply Chain Talent Consultant
Joshua Stack
Strategic Content & Marketing Manager
Carlie Gonsalvez
Project and Administrative Coordinator
David Miller
Executive Supply Chain Recruiter
Chris Gaffney
Supply Chain Talent Advisor & Podcast Host
Mike Ogle
Supply Chain Talent Advisor & Podcast Host
Our Core Belief System
The backbone of our company is going above and beyond to help people, both our employees, and the holistic supply chain community.
Our work ethic combined with our strategic, exhaustive approach to solving our clients talent needs is what sets us apart from others.
WHY SCM TALENT GROUP?
When you search for supply chain recruiters, it’s absolutely critical to engage a firm that has:
Deep and broad supply chain recruiting experience, with the ability to understand YOUR unique supply chain and identify candidates that can assimilate quickly, while adding value Bountiful relationships, resources and tools to quickly identify and engage the right supply chain talent based on your most important criteria
A robust candidate assessment process with a long history of delivering supply chain talent that meets or exceeds client expectations. A high degree of integrity, as there are subpar, shortcut-taking recruiters out there that give the industry a bad reputation.
Our Founder, Rodney Apple, began working in supply chain recruiting in 1998 before supply chain became popular in the business world (listen to his start-up story via the Supply Chain Now Podcast).
In 2001, Rodney received a call from The Home Depot, a Fortune 15 corporation at the time, concerning a project to lead recruitment for the build-out of the company’s first supply chain department. Rodney landed the role and soon after recruited their ground floor supply chain organization consisting of a VP of Supply Chain, Director of Replenishment, and 11 Sr Supply Chain Managers. He went on to lead all professional and executive supply chain recruitment for the company through 2004.
Home Depot is where Rodney fell in love with supply chain management. He recognized early on that supply chain was going to be “a big deal” for many years to come, and in 2004, Rodney formed SCM Talent Group with the goal of helping other companies build and transform their supply chain organizations.
Rodney’s first client was The Coca-Cola Company, where he spent 6+ years leading all professional and executive supply chain recruiting for 20+ factories, strategic sourcing & procurement, inventory planning, S&OP, logistics, continuous improvement, quality and related departments.
Building upon successes at Home Depot and Coca-Cola, and subsequent supply chain recruiting projects with Kimberly-Clark, Cummins, and PWC, Rodney decided to expand the company’s service offerings in 2012 beyond exclusive retained client engagements.
From 2014-2021 Rodney proudly served as the Supply Chain Career Coach for the Association of Supply Chain Management Professionals (ASCM, formerly APICS) and led the Professional Development department as a writer for ASCM’s magazine, SCM Now.
Rodney also authors The Supply Chain Talent Blog and has been featured in many of the leading supply chain trade journals over the years sharing his expertise in supply chain recruiting and career development. In 2021 Rodney will be publishing his first book titled Supply Chain Careers – the Guidebook for Launching and Accelerating your Career in Supply Chain Management.
SCM Talent Group currently offers a broad range of customizable supply chain recruiting services that include Retained Executive Search, Contract Staffing, Interim Executives, and Contingency Search.
The firm is headquartered in downtown Asheville, NC and our supply chain recruiters support clients across most major industries throughout the United States.
Our Recruiting Process
Define the role and fit with business strategy
Through a collaborative, results-oriented intake process, we invest significant resources to understand your business, operations and unique culture. We dive deep into your supply chain organization and position specifications to develop a robust candidate profile that captures the essence of what you seek.
Consult & Execute a Sourcing Strategy
We work with you to define a search strategy with target industries, segments, and employers. We will leverage our large suite of direct sourcing tools, resources and relationships to find the best fit. The best-qualified candidates are thoroughly vetted by our recruitment teams and measured against the developed leader specification and against your unique company culture.
Interviews, Offer, Closing and Post-Start Date
Our goal is to present you with a focused slate of candidates who meet or exceed your expectations. We provide real insights into our streamlined yet thorough candidate reports; Each write-up illustrates how that specific executive aligns with your core leadership, functional and technical competencies.
