Premier Search Associates

Premier Search Associates is a national recruiting firm formed in 1994 to serve the consumer packaged goods industries. Its jobs and candidates focus on supplying, manufacturing or packaging some form of consumer good, and it fills technical, professional and managerial positions.

The roles it recruits for include process, project, packaging and quality engineers, sales and marketing staff, supply chain and logistics managers, research and development scientists, and senior management such as plant managers, controllers and general managers. Its stated industries are beauty, chemicals, consumer goods, foods, packaging and plastics.

The firm says it draws on an unadvertised network of contacts to reach candidates who are employed and not actively looking. It also says it holds client information in confidence, so that employers can hire without alerting competitors.