M&A Executive Search provided a project-based commodities risk management expert to a building products manufacturing company in Indiana to address a critical margin protection and supply cost volatility initiative. The expert, operating as an embedded member of the client’s leadership team, conducted executive interviews, analyzed steel and lumber price exposure, evaluated commodity hedging alternatives including futures and options, and developed a right-sized hedging strategy aligned with procurement and sales timing. The assignment delivered a structured commodity hedging roadmap, governance framework, and implementation plan, enabling the organization to stabilize project margins, reduce commodity price risk, and improve financial predictability in a volatile building materials market.
