Executive Search + Direct Search

Get the right people into your hiring process.

OTL Search helps companies reach Director-to-C-suite leaders who aren’t showing up through the usual channels. Your team can keep the hiring process. We work the market and bring the right people into it.

Founder-led · Director to C-suite · Hospitality + Food & Beverage · Nationwide Search
Is OTL Right for Your Search?

OTL is built for companies that…

Have a time-sensitive leadership role open for 60+ days.
Applications are coming in, but too few people are worth interviewing.
Need a hard-to-find background.
The right leader may already be employed and unlikely to apply.
Already have a hiring team.
Your team can handle interviews and selection but needs more market reach.
Where OTL Focuses
The Problem

Applicant flow isn’t market coverage.

A job post tells you who applied. It doesn’t tell you who exists, who has the right background, or who might be open to the right conversation.

Plenty of applicants. Few matches.

Your hiring process is active, but the candidate pool is missing the mark.

Your TA team needs more reach.

The team has the process covered but needs focused sourcing capacity.

The role calls for a rare background.

Specific experience, scope or operating context narrows the field.

The market is unclear.

Compensation, location or calibration may be holding the search back.

The same names keep appearing.

The strongest people may be doing well elsewhere and not looking at job posts.

The open seat affects the business.

A Director-to-C-suite vacancy can slow growth, operations or a key transition.

More applicant flow isn’t always the answer. Sometimes the candidate market needs to be worked directly.
Markets We Know

Focused industry experience. Business-critical leadership.

Our experience is grounded in Hospitality, Food & Beverage and related businesses. We work across Growth, Commercial and Operations leadership.

Hospitality

  • Luxury + Boutique Hotels
  • Hotel Management Companies
  • Resorts
  • QSR + Fast Casual
  • Multi-Unit Restaurant Groups
  • Premium Hospitality Concepts

Food + Beverage Manufacturing

  • Prepared Foods
  • Beverage
  • Bakery + Snacks
  • Frozen + Private Label
  • Meal Production
  • Co-Man / Co-Pack
Two Ways to Work Together

Choose how much of the search you want OTL to own.

Direct Search

For companies with a hiring process in place. OTL builds candidate-market access and introduces interested leaders aligned on your core criteria. Your team interviews, assesses, selects and hires.

Executive Search

For complex, confidential or business-critical searches where you want deeper support. OTL handles the search, candidate assessment, shortlist development and process guidance through the decision and close.

Typical roles: Marketing, Brand, Sales, Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and senior People / HR — Director to C-suite.
Recent Search Situations

Real hiring situations call for a more focused search.

Examples of the leadership challenges OTL works around. Individual client names and outcomes are shared only when approved.

01Agree on the criteria before approaching the market
02Engage people who may never apply
03Introduce candidates with clear reasons for fit and interest
Mark Avila portrait
The Founder

Search informed by operating experience.

Before building OTL Search, Mark Avila spent more than 20 years inside food and hospitality operations.

That background helps OTL look beyond titles to understand business models, operating environments, team structure and what a senior leader really needs to accomplish.

“A strong search starts with understanding the business problem — not just the job description.”
Mark Avila · Founder, OTL Search
Built Around Your Existing Team

Already have a recruiting team? Good.

You don’t need to outsource what your team already does well. With Direct Search, OTL calibrates, maps, sources, engages and introduces candidates. Your team keeps control of interviews, assessment, selection, offers and hiring.

Interview + Assess
Select
Offer
Hire
For Employers & Hiring Teams

If the shortlist still isn’t right, it may be time to work the market differently.

Talk with OTL Search about a Director-to-C-suite hiring need, targeted candidate sourcing, or more involved executive-search support.

Book a Search Call

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Mark Avila · Founder, OTL Search · mark@otlhospitality.co