Sector Coverage/Consumer & Retail
Sector

Consumer & Retail

India's consumer landscape is one of the most dynamic in the world — a large, fragmented, fast-changing market where brands, channels and consumer behaviour shift in real time.

How we work here

Where the conversations happen.

We work with FMCG and consumer brands of every shape: large public companies hiring for the next phase, founder-led businesses professionalising, multinational subsidiaries scaling, and the new generation of digital-first brands. Across them, the leadership questions are similar even when the businesses are not.

Distribution is the unchanging Indian consumer challenge — general trade is still the largest channel for most categories, modern trade and e-commerce are reshaping growth, and quick commerce has become its own discipline. The strongest commercial leaders understand all of it.

We are retained for senior commercial, marketing and general management roles. The strongest candidates are typically running similar businesses and need careful approach.

Sub-sectors

Where we go deeper still.

Mandates we typically run

The seats we are asked to fill.

  • CEO and Managing Director
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Commercial Officer
  • Head of Sales — GT, MT and E-commerce
  • Head of Brand and Innovation
  • Head of Supply Chain
  • CFO
  • Head of Human Resources
What we are seeing

Three observations about Consumer & Retail today.

D2C and digital-first brands have changed the talent picture. The CMOs and CCOs who can move between classical FMCG and platform-native thinking are in genuine demand.

Quick commerce has become a distinct commercial discipline, not an extension of e-commerce. Few leaders have lived through a full cycle of it yet.

Family-led consumer businesses professionalising their leadership remain one of our most active mandate types.

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