Sector expertise in executive search is not a claim, it is a call list. These are the industries where we can hand-pick the leadership bench without opening a database.
Ten groupings, thirteen sectors. Each line below is a market we can map from memory before we open a database.
Specialty and commodity chemicals, additives, crop protection and intermediates. Plant heads, technical directors, business heads and CFOs for capex-heavy, multi-site groups. Our longest running client relationships sit here.
Engineering, capital goods, building materials and process industries. Manufacturing directors, plant heads, supply chain and quality leadership including greenfield teams built from zero.
Foods, home and personal care, appliances and durables. Category heads, sales and trade marketing leadership, CMOs and general managers with P&L ownership.
OEMs and tier-one suppliers. Business heads, plant leadership, aftermarket and sales directors, quality and programme leaders.
Formulations, API, devices and hospital groups. Commercial and manufacturing leadership, quality and regulatory heads.
Residential, commercial and township development. Sales leadership, project and execution heads, CFOs and business heads for large land-parcel developments.
Organised retail, D2C and marketplaces. Category leadership, retail operations, supply chain and growth roles.
Product, growth and technology leadership for consumer-facing businesses, including CIO and CTO mandates in traditional groups going digital.
Power, renewables, oil and gas services, third-party logistics and express distribution. Operations, network and commercial leadership.
EPC and infrastructure delivery. Project directors, procurement heads and business leaders for complex, multi-year mandates.
India: head office in Andheri (East), Mumbai, with active mandates across Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and the Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh industrial belts.
EMEA: a London based practice covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa, used both by European groups hiring in India and by Indian groups hiring abroad.
What keeps a client relationship alive through three CEOs and two market cycles.
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Solving the serviceability puzzle at one of India's largest logistics networks.
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Building a plant leadership team in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, from the ground up.
Read the case study →Thirteen sectors: chemicals, agro chemicals, industrial and manufacturing, consumer (FMCG and FMCD), auto and auto components, pharma and healthcare, real estate, retail, e-commerce and digital, consumer technology, energy, logistics, and engineering and projects.
Rarely, and only where a role is functionally close to a market we already know for example a CFO or CHRO mandate in an adjacent industrial business. If we cannot map your market properly we will say so, and refer you elsewhere where we can.
Yes. Our EMEA practice operates from London and covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, including cross-border mandates for Indian groups expanding internationally.
Mumbai and Pune most often, plus Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and the Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh industrial belts.
A first conversation takes about 30 minutes and costs nothing. You'll leave with a view of the market for that role the talent pools, a realistic compensation band, and how long the search should take whether or not you appoint us.
The title, the reporting line and why the seat is open. Two paragraphs is enough to start.
With a first read on the market: who exists, what they cost, how long it should take.
No proposal deck, no pursuit calls. If we're not the right firm for this one, we'll say so.