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Executive & Retained Search
Focused market mapping and discreet outreach for leadership, high-impact commercial, operational, and functional roles.
Leadership and specialized talent.
Delivered with insight. Driven by impact.
Tribune Search partners with organizations to identify exceptional leaders and specialized talent that drive meaningful growth and lasting success.
TRIBUNE SEARCH
Executive Search
How We Help
Flexible search solutions built around the way you hire.
From a confidential leadership search to ongoing recruiting support, every engagement receives direct senior-level involvement, targeted sourcing, and clear communication.
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Professional & Contingency Search
Targeted recruitment for specialized manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, technical sales, and corporate positions.
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Fractional Talent Acquisition
Embedded support that operates as an extension of HR—from workforce planning and advertising through interviews, offers, and acceptance.
Specialized Expertise
Recruiting across the functions that keep manufacturers competitive.
Tribune Search combines direct sourcing, market intelligence, candidate assessment, and practical manufacturing knowledge to reach talent beyond the active applicant market.
Functional Search Areas
- Executive Leadership
- Plant & Operations Leadership
- Engineering & Technical
- Supply Chain & Planning
- Purchasing & Procurement
- Sales & Business Development
- Key Account Management
- Finance, HR & IT Leadership
Industry Focus
- Plastics & Polymers
- Specialty Chemicals
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Automotive Supply
- Consumer & Engineered Products
- Medical & Life Sciences Manufacturing
- Materials & Metal Replacement
- Logistics & Distribution
The Tribune Approach
Persistent by design. Personal at every stage.
We do not rely on a generic database and hope the right candidate applies. Each search is built around your business, market, location, leadership team, and hiring reality.
Define the Search
Clarify business priorities, success measures, culture, compensation, and the real reasons a candidate would join.
Map the Market
Identify target companies, adjacent talent pools, competitors, and regional or relocation constraints.
Engage & Assess
Approach passive prospects directly, evaluate capability and motivation, and present concise, decision-ready profiles.
Close the Hire
Maintain momentum through interviews, references, compensation alignment, offer negotiation, and acceptance.
Experience That Translates
Recruiting support grounded in real manufacturing hiring.
10+Years of recruiting experience
20Roles filled in a two-year embedded engagement
Multi-siteNorth American hiring support
Full-cycleStrategy through offer acceptance
Founder-Led Search
Direct accountability from the first conversation to the accepted offer.
Tribune Search is led by Robert “Kirk” Day, Founder and Managing Director. Kirk brings more than a decade of agency, corporate, and embedded recruiting experience, with a concentration in manufacturing, plastics, chemicals, engineering, operations, supply chain, and commercial leadership.
He has served as an extension of internal HR teams across multiple U.S. sites—managing advertising, sourcing, screening, interviews, candidate presentation, salary negotiation, workforce planning, and talent pipelines. The result is a search process that is practical, responsive, and closely aligned with the realities facing hiring managers.
Tribune Search serves small and midsize manufacturers that need specialized recruiting capability without adding permanent internal headcount, as well as organizations conducting confidential or business-critical searches.
Robert “Kirk” DayFounder & Managing Director
Begin the Conversation
Your next critical hire deserves more than another job posting.
Share the position, the challenge, and what success needs to look like. Tribune Search will help you determine the right search strategy and the most direct path to qualified talent.
Email Kirk Day