Industry Specialties
Sanford Rose Associates - Crystal Lake devotes its practice to serving professionals in the legal, food, specialty chemicals and packaging Industries. We concentrate on filling executive, managerial, technical and mid-to-upper level professional positions for our client companies, who pay all fees. Our expertise includes: Executive Management, Senior Counsel, General Counsel, Sales & Marketing, Research & Development, Finance, Operations & Production, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Technical Service, Legal Staff, Regulatory Compliance, Quality Assurance and Human Resource Management.

Legal Professionals
The legal recruiting team devotes its practice to serving in-house legal professionals in the food, specialty chemicals, packaging and related manufacturing industries. We are committed to providing our corporate clients with in-house attorneys who will “make a difference” in their businesses. We focus on filling in-house attorney positions including: Chief Legal Counsel, Senior Counsel, General Counsel, and Staff Attorneys. Our clients hire us to find corporate attorneys in many areas including: Intellectual Property, Contract,Taxation, SEC/Securities, Environmental, Antitrust, Litigation, M&A, FDA, International, Joint Ventures, Labor, Employment, Product Liability, Regulatory, Real Estate, and Technology.

Specialty Chemicals
The specialty chemicals team serves multiple market segments including polymers, contract manufacturing, color, fine chemicals, organic intermediates, coatings, pigments, additives and other raw material suppliers. With over 15 years of industry experience, we have an extensive network of contacts within the chemical industry.

Food Manufacturing
The food industry team specializes in food ingredients, flavors, beverage, confectionery, snacks, oils, dairy, meat, bakery, additives, sensory, canned, frozen foods, pet food and animal feed. We have an extensive network of contacts within the food industry which enables us to find "people who make a difference" in your organization.

Packaging
The packaging recruiting group serves a cross section of industries including the food, medical device and consumer goods which use packaging professionals. As a result of our extensive knowledge of plastic processing technologies we are able to uncover superior talent for our clients. We are skilled at finding professionals who are experts at design, research and packaging manufacturing.