The best CPG executives are not sitting on a job board in January waiting for your call. They are being planned for right now, in Q4, by the companies that treat leadership hiring as a timeline instead of an emergency. If a leadership gap is on your radar for next year, the smart move is…
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CPG job boards are a useful tool. For entry-level roles, mid-management positions, and functions where the candidate pool is broad and active, posting a listing and reviewing applications is a reasonable starting point. At the executive level, that logic breaks down almost entirely, and organizations that rely on CPG job boards for senior hiring often…
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The CPG CFO job is not what it was ten years ago. Input costs swing month to month. Retailers push harder on every price line. Trade spend eats margin quietly. Investors want a growth story that holds up under real scrutiny. The person running finance for a consumer brand now sits in the middle of…
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Not every executive search is run the same way, and in the consumer packaged goods industry, that difference matters more than most hiring organizations realize. The two most common models, retained search and contingency hiring, look similar from the outside. Both involve a recruiter, a job brief, and a shortlist of candidates. What happens in…
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The CPG CFO used to be primarily a numbers role. Strong technical accounting, solid reporting, careful cost management, and a firm grip on trade spend and margins — that was the job. For many organizations, that picture has not fully updated, and the mismatch shows up at the hiring stage: companies write a CPG CFO…
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The CPG COO used to be, above almost everything else, a supply chain executive. If you could keep the shelves stocked, manage trade relationships, and hold the line on cost, you were doing the job. That version of the role still exists inside some organizations. But for most consumer packaged goods companies today, it no…
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Every CPG company says it wants top talent. Far fewer can describe, with any precision, what that actually looks like. A strong resume and a familiar logo on it are easy to find. The instincts that let an executive move volume, defend margin, and read a category three steps ahead of the competition are not.…
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A decade ago, most CPG companies had a single “ecommerce person” — usually someone from sales who got handed the Amazon account because nobody else wanted it. Today, the brands leading their categories in digital commerce have entire ecommerce divisions, complete with titles that didn’t appear on a single org chart in 2014. That’s not…
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Not long ago, the CPG COO was defined by supply chain discipline, the executive who made sure product got made, stored, and delivered on time. That job still exists. But it no longer tells the full story of what a great CPG Chief Operating Officer must do. The explosive growth of CPG ecommerce across Amazon,…
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If you’ve searched “CPG GM” and landed here, you’re likely trying to figure out one of two things: what the role actually entails, or how to find, or become, one. Either way, you’re in the right place. Hunter & Michaels has been placing General Managers and executive talent in the consumer packaged goods industry since…
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