Apparel, footwear, jewellery, beauty and the wider lifestyle category have produced some of India's most interesting consumer businesses in the last decade — and some of its hardest leadership mandates.
The lifestyle category in India is fragmented, brand-led, and undergoing meaningful consolidation. Listed brands, family-led houses, multinationals localising, and a growing D2C base each call for different kinds of leadership.
Leadership demand spans CEO, brand, design, retail operations and commercial roles. The strongest candidates often sit inside heritage brands or have moved between Indian and global businesses; we have built our network here over the years.
Our mandates here lean towards CEO, brand and senior commercial roles across the lifestyle universe.
Brand and design sit at the centre of value here in a way they rarely do elsewhere — creative leadership is a commercial appointment, not a back-room one.
Retail, e-commerce and D2C reward different instincts; the strongest leaders run a channel-agnostic P&L rather than defending a single route to market.
Sourcing and speed-to-market are competitive weapons; supply-chain leadership is judged on agility as much as cost.