Nysonian: Hiring a VP of Operations to Lead a Manufacturing Expansion

What made this role hard to fill

Nysonian needed an operations leader who could run a manufacturing facility transition from the warehouse floor, not the corporate office.

Nysonian needed someone who could:

• Help oversee a manufacturing facility transition
• Operate directly within warehouse environments
• Understand operational bottlenecks firsthand
• Support scaling across multiple DTC brands

The challenge was finding a candidate with both:

• Executive-level leadership capability
• Real hands-on manufacturing and warehouse experience

Candidates coming purely from business operations or corporate strategy backgrounds would not have been successful.

The client needed someone who had managed a warehouse floor and knew where facility moves break down in practice.

Prioritizing Hands-On Manufacturing Leadership

Constant Hire focused on candidates with:

• Warehouse and manufacturing operations backgrounds
• Experience standing up or scaling operational facilities
• Leadership experience inside fast-moving environments
• Willingness to travel and work closely with operations teams

The selected candidate stood out immediately because:

• He previously worked directly in warehouse operations leadership
• Understood the operational challenges the client was solving for
• Was bilingual, improving communication across teams
• Had strong cultural alignment with leadership

The candidate had run operations from inside a warehouse before moving into leadership, which is exactly what the facility transition required.

Where Constant Hire added value beyond sourcing

Beyond sourcing, Constant Hire's main value-add was compensation guidance. Because the pool of operations leaders with both executive range and hands-on manufacturing experience is small, getting the comp expectations right early kept the search moving.

Because the talent pool for operations leaders with both executive capability and hands-on manufacturing experience is limited, compensation alignment became an important part of the search.

Process

• 30+ candidates interviewed
• 22 candidates submitted
• 4 interview rounds for the finalist
• 2 stakeholders involved
• 78 days to offer

Late in the search, a stronger candidate surfaced and became the front-runner. The client shifted the offer to that candidate, who became the hire.

An Operations Leader Built for Scale

• Finalists: 2
• Offers: 1

The selected VP of Operations brought:

• Real warehouse leadership experience
• Manufacturing operations expertise
• Strong cross-functional communication skills
• Operational scaling experience within physical environments

The hire was brought in to lead Nysonian's manufacturing facility transition and support operational scaling across its portfolio of brands.

Positioning Highlight

This case study demonstrates Constant Hire’s ability to:

• Recruit operational leadership beyond traditional marketing roles
• Evaluate hands-on manufacturing expertise
• Hire for operational scale and facility expansion
• Support highly specialized executive searches