Consumer and Retail
Consumer and Retail.
Consumer finance leadership is a margin job before it is a growth job, and the people who are good at it have usually run a bad quarter.
Levels we recruit
- Analyst
- Senior Analyst
- Manager
- Senior Manager
- Director
- Vice President
- Head of Function
Segment
- Consumer brands
- Retail and e-commerce
- Food and beverage
- Consumer goods
Function
- Corporate development
- Strategy and commercial finance
- Financial planning and analysis
- Chief Financial Officer track
The rest of them
The sectors next to this one
These markets share one talent pool and one referral graph, so the right person for a seat in one sector is often reached through another.
- Investment Banking Coverage and product bankers.
- Private Equity Deal teams, Operating Partners, and portfolio finance leadership.
- Private Credit Origination, underwriting, and portfolio management.
- Hedge Funds Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and the risk and research seats around them.
- Venture Capital Investors and platform hires for early and growth-stage funds.
- Secondaries LP and GP-led Secondaries investing and structuring.
- Infrastructure Core, core-plus, and energy transition investing.
- Corporate Development In-house M&A, strategy, and integration leadership.
- Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Corporate development, strategy, and finance leadership in technology, media, and telecommunications.
- Healthcare Corporate development, strategy, and finance leadership in services and devices.
- Financial Institutions Finance, strategy, and corporate development inside banks, insurers, and asset managers.
- Industrials Finance, strategy, and corporate development in manufacturing, aerospace, and business services.
- Energy and Power Finance, strategy, and corporate development across conventional energy, power, and renewables.
- Real Estate Finance, strategy, and corporate development across owners, operators, and managers.
Take it to one consumer and Retail seat
A conversation about one consumer and Retail seat is worth more than a conversation about the market around it.
If you are building a team, the most useful opening is the seat itself and what the last person in it got wrong. If you are someone these firms ask about, an exploratory conversation is worth having early and it stays private. We reply quickly. Approach sets out how the work is structured, and Contact is the fastest way to start.
All engagements are contracted and invoiced by Rand Thompson Consultants, LLC. Evrata opens the conversation and makes the introduction, and Rand Thompson runs the search.