Case Study · Heavy Highway & Materials
Building the Leadership Bench for Preferred Materials
Core Competencies helped build the original senior-management team for Preferred Materials in Tampa, Florida. Three of four original senior-management searches were filled, followed by additional key roles over time. The work supported a ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and aggregates operation that needed leaders able to manage production, logistics, commercial relationships, and project demand.
Company names on this page follow the historical progression provided by Core Competencies: Preferred Materials was later known as Oldcastle Materials, Southeast and now operates as Preferred Materials, Inc., a CRH company.
Search Mandate: Build an Original Senior Leadership Team
The assignment was a team-build effort, not a single replacement search. Core Competencies recruited leaders with materials and construction fluency, practical operating judgment, and the capacity to guide launch, integration, and growth.
- Three of four original senior roles filled
- Additional key roles filled over time
- Tampa, Florida leadership team
- Ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and aggregates focus
Long-Term Leadership Support
The supplied historical record describes substantial growth over the following two decades, additional key placements, and later support for a high-level diversity-hiring initiative. Those outcomes reflect the work of many leaders and teams over time; this case study identifies Core Competencies’ recruiting contribution to the leadership bench at the beginning of that trajectory.
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