Contents tagged with fmcg

  • CFO Adriatic, FMCG

    cfo, finance director, cee, see, slovenia, tobacco, fmcg, emerging markets

    Sector: Tobacco

    Working with a top 4 tobacco group to identify a CFO for the Adriatics business, with $100m net revenue and commercial and manufacturing operations in 6 countries in the cluster.  A highly challenging assignment because the Adriatic cluster is a "training" market for the larger tobacco firms therefore it was necessary to target outside of the sector in mainstream FMCG.  The search was cancelled at the final stage due to the emergence of an internal …

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  • Country Finance Director, Ukraine, Pharmaceuticals

    cfo, finance director, cis, ukraine, istanbul, otc, pharma, fmcg, regional, Eurasia

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Working with a global pharmaceutical group to identify a CFO for the emerging Ukraine business, which at the time was a $80m revenue.  This company is highly demanding and seeks CFOs who can deputise for the GM and who are capable of driving the business performance in a constructive and value-adding manner.  A highly challenging role.  

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  • CFO France & Southern Europe, Apparel

    France, cfo, finance director, apparel, fmcg, us corp

    Sector: Apparel

    Partnering with a US listed apparel company to identify a CFO for France and Southern following the promotion of the incumbent to the European Controller role.  The main challenge in this mandate was to identify a high performance candidate at a low salary, since the compensation on offer was 20% below market rate.  We were fortunate to identify an out of work candidate prepared to accept a lower basic salary.

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  • CFO Benefra, FMCG

    cfo, finance director, fmcg, private equity, France, western europe

    Sector: FMCG

    Completed the search to recruit a CFO for the Belgium, France and Netherlands countries on behalf of a private equity backed FMCG company.  The role combined support of the commercial and manufacturing operations.  the most challenging aspect of the search was to identify a candidate with a strong commercial acumen and the quick mind to enable interaction with the private equity backer.

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  • Country Controller, Austria

    controller, accounting, fmcg, austria, cee, central europe, ifrs

    Sector: FMCG

    Mandate to hire a country Controller for the coommercial and supply chain operations of the Austrian affiliate, incorporating a direct sales force, two manufacturing facilities and a distribution network.  Country sales at the time were €300m. The Controller was a position focused on technical accounting, tax, working capital and internal controls and was tasked with maintaining motivation team motivation while half the department's position were relocated to a …

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  • Head of Supply Chain Finance

    finance manager, supply chain, fmcg, central europe, austria, manufacturing

    Sector: FMCG

    Mandate to hire a finance leader for the manufacturing and supply chain operations of the Austrian affiliate, incorporating two manufacturing facilities and a distribution network.  Country sales at the time were €300m.  The SC Finance leader was tasked with creating an unified finance team to support both plants as well as logistics and procurement.  In addition a key challenge was to improve how the finance team engaged with and supported the Head of …

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  • Finance Director, Poland & Eastern Europe

    finance director, cfo, eastern europe, poland, central europe, cee, fmcg, apparel

    Sector: Apparel

    Mandate to recruit a finance director for the Polish operations as well as the expansion into Eastern Europe on a country by country basis.  Initially the emphasis involved working through distributors with the intention of establishing a network of retail outlets, hence the comapany's interest in hiring a senior candidate who had previously worked outside of Poland in the past.

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  • CFO Turkey & Middle East

    cfo, finance director, middle east, turkey, istanbul, otc, pharma, fmcg, regional, Eurasia

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Working with a global pharmaceutical group to identify a CFO for the Turkish & Middle East business, which at the time was a $250m revenue cluster.  This company is highly demanding and seeks CFOs who can deputise for the GM and who are capable of driving the business performance in a constructive and value-adding manner.  A highly challenging role.  

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  • Country Finance Manager, KSA

    finance manager, financial director, cfo, fmcg, middle east, saudi arabia, ksa

    Working with a global beauty care business to hire a finance leader (CFO) for the company's Saudi commercial operations based in Riyadh.  At the time the KSA operations were relatively small at $30m in annual sales but with a plan to substantially ramp up operations in the country.  The challenge in this assignment was to hire a sufficiently senior candidate to join a smaller affiliate in advance of the growth.

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  • Finance Director, Turkey

    finance director, finance manager, fmcg, turkey, emerging markets, food

    Sector: Consumer Products

    Country CFO for a high growth Turkish subsidiary of a leading branded food group.  The company was investing heavily in order to take market share and the decision was taken to replace the exisitng CFO in order to have a commercial-minded CFO who could be a more effective business partner to the General Manager.  Executed as a confidential executive search.

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