M&A’s Printing recruiting team has over 20 years of experience hiring for pressroom, packaging, and digital print operations, helping businesses define precise role requirements and competency frameworks. We maintain a vetted network of print executives, engineers, and operations leaders, allowing us to deliver qualified candidates within 2–3 weeks and strengthen clients’ productivity and profitability. Our team helps companies in the Printing industry, as well as companies that sell products and services to these industries. We recruit full-time leaders and supply interim COOs, plant directors, and workflow consultants with proven track records in commercial and industrial print operations.
Our deep printing-industry network ensures you get the right printing industry talent - fast, affordable, and aligned with your business goals.
How Are Current Trends Shaping Printing Recruiting and Talent Acquisition in 2025?
Our Printing recruiting team partners with companies across the industry value-chain to provide the right talent quickly, flexibly and affordably.
Here are trends in the printing industry driving key talent acquisition requirements:
- Software and Digital / Program Management Recruiting and Expert Consultants
Digital transformation and MIS automation are redefining printing workflows, driving demand for experts in ERP, CRM, and web-to-print platforms that support real-time order management and just-in-time delivery. This requires increased software capabilities and automation for printing companies. This requires increased software / I/T and automation expertise and talent along with program management capabilities to lead large client customization efforts.
Digital transformation in printing demands specialized IT, software, and automation talent to keep operations agile and competitive.
- Marketing / Pricing / Executive Leadership Recruiting and Expert Consultants
Margin pressures are forcing printers to balance pricing strategy, cost modeling, and utilization optimization to protect profitability. Too often, printers focus on costs and sales and ignore pricing and utilization rates. There is a need for marketing and executive leadership talent to develop a more nuanced and complete view of the relationships between costs, price, and utilization rates. The fact that a typical printing job is composed of 40 percent fixed costs and 60 percent variable costs provides printers with a lot of discretion in pricing that must be managed effectively in a competitive environment. Acquiring talent that can effectively manage this complexity is critical and often comes from outside the print industry.
Strategic leadership and pricing expertise are key to sustaining profitability in a competitive print market.
- Human Resources Recruiting and Expert Consultants
Profit-leading printers have a much stronger focus on human resources management, particularly training and education. Securing HR and compensation leaders who design equitable reward frameworks aligned to performance cycles is critical to sustaining workforce morale and loyalty.
Investing in skilled HR and compensation experts builds a motivated, high-performing printing workforce.
How Can You Request Our Printing Executive Search Services?
Let us know how we can help you with your Printing recruiting and talent needs and our Retained Executive Search team will follow up with you promptly.
Which Roles Do We Specialize in Within the Printing Industry?
- Digital Printing
- Flexography
- Letterpress Printing
- Offset Printing
- Rotogravure
- Screen Printing
We recruit across every major printing process, ensuring specialized expertise for any production need.
Which Functional Areas Does Our Printing Recruiting Team Support?
- Accounting / Finance Recruiting
- Business Development Recruiting
- Engineering Recruiting
- Human Resources Recruiting
- Legal Recruiting
- Management Recruiting
- Manufacturing Recruiting
- Marketing Recruiting
- Program / Project Management Recruiting
- Relationship Management Recruiting
- Sales Recruiting
- IT Technical Recruiting
- Supply Chain Recruiting
- R&D Recruiting
From finance to R&D, our recruiters cover all key functions that keep printing companies operating and growing efficiently.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which printing industry roles do you specialize in recruiting?
We recruit leadership and technical professionals across every print process, including digital, flexography, offset, rotogravure, letterpress, and screen printing. Typical placements include Plant Managers, Operations Directors, Automation Engineers, Sales Executives, and COOs.
How quickly can you deliver qualified candidates?
We typically present a complete slate of well-matched candidates within 30 to 45 days, each aligned with your organization’s specific goals and business needs.
Do you only recruit for printing companies, or also for suppliers and technology providers?
We recruit across the entire print ecosystem - from commercial printers and packaging firms to OEMs, software vendors, and material suppliers.
Can M&A provide interim or contract executives?
Yes. In addition to retained full-time placements, we provide interim executives, program directors, and print workflow consultants who bring immediate leadership during expansions, M&A transitions, or technology rollouts. Each interim placement is backed by our proven screening and reference verification process.
M&A Executive Search is a specialized recruiting firm focused on the printing and packaging industry, connecting businesses with top-tier leadership and technical talent. With over two decades of executive search experience, our team combines deep industry insight, data-driven sourcing, and hands-on knowledge of pressroom operations, automation, and digital transformation. We help companies fill mission-critical roles fast - from plant managers and production directors to C-level executives - while maintaining a 95% placement retention rate.
Our expertise covers the entire print value chain, including OEMs, commercial printers, and technology providers, making M&A the trusted partner for high-performance recruiting in the global printing sector.
