VP Logistics & Transportation Recruitment
Freight leadership for a market where rates, capacity, and regulations never sit still
Freight Is Too Expensive to Manage Off the Side of a Desk
For most manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, transportation is one of the largest costs on the income statement and one of the least managed. Rates get renewed because renegotiating is work, the private fleet runs the way it always has, and every delivery failure becomes a customer service apology instead of a root cause.
A strong VP of Logistics or Transportation treats freight as the strategic spend it is. They know when to run private fleet versus carriers versus 3PL, how to negotiate from data instead of hope, how to keep drivers in trucks in a market that never has enough of them, and how to keep the network compliant across every border and jurisdiction it touches.
We recruit transportation executives for Canadian shippers and carriers alike, and we know the difference between a traffic manager who books freight and a logistics executive who designs how a company moves.
What a Strong Logistics Executive Owns
Freight Strategy & Spend
The full transportation budget, managed by mode and lane with real data, and renegotiated when the market moves in your favour.
Fleet Operations
Private fleet utilization, maintenance, and replacement cycles, and the honest analysis of which lanes the fleet should and should not run.
Carrier & 3PL Relationships
A carrier base that shows up in tight markets because you were worth working with in loose ones.
Driver Workforce
Recruiting, retaining, and scheduling drivers through a structural shortage, including compliance with hours-of-service rules.
Service & Delivery Performance
On-time delivery that keeps customer promises, with visibility that flags failures before the customer calls.
Regulatory Compliance
Safety ratings, cross-border requirements, ELDs, and dangerous goods handled as a system, not as a scramble after an audit.
Signs It's Time to Hire a VP Logistics
Freight spend has become one of your largest cost lines and no executive owns it.
Carrier rates get renewed without benchmarking and the business has no idea if it pays market.
The private fleet's true cost per kilometre is unknown, or known and alarming.
Driver turnover and unfilled seats are limiting how much the business can deliver.
Cross-border shipments, compliance, or safety audits have produced expensive surprises.
Delivery failures are damaging customer relationships and every fix is a one-off.
Why Transportation Searches Are Specialized
Shipper vs. Carrier DNA
Running transportation for a shipper and running a trucking company are related but different jobs. The right background depends on your model.
Fleet Judgment
Private fleet decisions involve capital, labour, and service trade-offs many candidates have never truly owned.
The Data Standard
Strong candidates manage by cost per lane and service by carrier. Candidates who cannot talk that way have been administering, not managing.
Market Cycle Scars
Freight markets whipsaw. You want a leader who has managed through both capacity crunches and rate collapses without betting the company.
Compliance Weight
Safety and regulatory failures in transportation carry liability few other functions can match. Depth here is not optional.
A Small Talent Pool
True transportation executives in Canada form a small community. Reaching the good ones takes a network, not a job posting.
One-Year, No-Fault, Full Replacement Guarantee
We are so confident in our process that we offer a one-year, no-fault, full replacement guarantee on every executive we place. If it doesn't work out for any reason, we'll conduct a replacement search at no additional fee.
Ready to Find Your Next Logistics Leader?
If freight is a seven-figure spend managed like an afterthought, the right transportation executive is one of the fastest paybacks in your business. Contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation.
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