India's chemicals industry has gone from a domestic supplier to a global presence in a single decade. We work with the businesses leading that shift — specialty, petrochemical, agrochem and beyond.
Chemicals is one of the sectors where we have gone deepest. The talent market is narrow, technical and global. Leaders need both shop-floor credibility and a working understanding of regulatory frameworks, EHS, and the increasingly global customer base.
Our mandates span large public chemicals companies professionalising the next layer of leadership, ambitious specialty businesses building international scale, and multinationals localising their India operations. Across all of it, the question is the same: who can lead a chemicals business when the market is moving faster than the org chart?
We are retained when boards want to look outside the obvious shortlist. The strongest leaders in this sector are rarely advertising their availability — the work is in finding them, earning the trust to have the conversation, and making the case for the move.
India's fastest-moving chemicals story — and the tightest talent market.
Open →Large-scale, capital-intensive, and undergoing significant capacity expansion.
Open →Active ingredients, formulations, and the leaders behind India's export story.
Open →A consolidating, premiumising market — and a leadership pool in motion.
Open →Specialty chemicals is where the talent market is tightest. Strong R&D-to-commercial leaders — people who can build a business around a molecule — are genuinely rare.
EHS leadership has become a CEO-level concern, not a function. The Plant Heads and EHS Directors who can carry that conversation with regulators, boards and shop floors are in short supply.
The China-plus-one shift is real for chemicals, and it is reshaping the kind of leadership Indian players need — export markets, global customers, currency and trade fluency that did not matter five years ago.
Every enquiry is handled in confidence. Tell us about the role, and we will tell you honestly whether it is one we can do justice to.
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