051 - Jason Breault - Supply Chain Recruiting

Always having the itch to “do his own thing” Jason opened our Westport, MA office in January 2006 after 12 years of working for the man! He has grown our business to be the leading national search firm specializing in supply chain planning across industries such as Consumer Goods, High Tech, Medical Device, Pharma and Biotech. He currently leads the team working with companies – as small as $25 million in size and as large as $20 billion in size – to identify top talent in areas like demand planning, supply planning, operations planning, production planning and sales & operations planning (S&OP) / Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Taking that beyond staffing, Jason helps to run the New England chapter of the Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF), an organization committed to advancing planning practices globally. He has spoken at several ASCM and IBF events on the State of Employment in Demand- and Supply Planning. Jason’s recruiting career is built on a 12-year foundation serving ERP and Supply Chain needs in both domestic and international markets. While at Siemens Business Services, he leveraged his engineering background and German fluency to solidify SAP consulting engagements with multi-national organizations. Jason then spent 5+ years at AMR Research in Boston (now Gartner), a leading research and advisory organization focusing on the supply chain best practices and applications being leveraged to help cut costs and increase revenues. Jason earned a BA in German and a BS in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Rhode Island. Jason Breault --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbreault/ LifeWork Search is a full-service search firm. Founded in 2006, they have grown into the leading national recruiting firm specializing in supply chain planning and procurement across industries including consumer goods, food & beverage, high tech, medical device, pharmaceutical and biotech. LifeWork Search --- https://lifeworksearch.com/ linkedin.com/company/lifework-search/ In Episode 51 Richard talks with Jason Breault from LifeWork Search about: 01:44 - Jason’s origin story and how he got to where he is. 06:21 - Looking back on the early stages of SAP’s value proposition in supply chain. 11:44 - How he got into supply chain recruiting. 16:48 - Why did Jason choose to focus on supply chain? 20:57 - Why did it take so long for supply chain to grow from a blue collar function to a corporate function? 25:29 - What has changed in the company’s DNA when it comes to supply chain? 30:49 - How technology has changed the role of the Chief Supply Chain Officer. 35:04 - What is the future of supply chain leadership? 39:15 - How Jason looks for disruptors? 43:11 - How innovation is a skill set that can be applied to almost any industry. 48:59 - How does Jason see megatrends playing out throughout the next decade? 52:54 - The importance of finding the key ESG circularity metric so everyone can speak commonly around their initiatives.