Recruit top executives and consumer marketing and insights professionals.

Speed and quality in executive search are the result of over 30 years of building relationships with top, classically trained consumer marketing and insights professionals.

When you partner with us, you'll find we've already done much of the work for you.

We understand the industry inside out. We speak the language, know the landscape, and will leverage our network to recruit your next leader and build a strong team.

Highly specialized. Consistently successful. Rapid results.

When you need to quickly hire high-performing marketing, insights and analytics professionals, you benefit from our proven end-to-end process.

We deliver a slate of outstanding candidates who know how to make an immediate, positive impact on your organization.

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Western US
Vice President of Sales - CPG - Bakery/Foodservice
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Vice President of Sales - CPG - Bakery/Foodservice

Challenges:

  • Expertise in the baking industry with experience selling into distributors
  • Experience in the foodservice channel ideal, in-store bakery, retail or alternate channels a plus
  • Proven track record of building and managing a pipeline of $1M+ accounts and successfully closing high-value deals
  • Thrives without a playbook

Success

  • Completed in 59 days – strong CPG, bakery, and foodservice experience managing, closing, and taking multi-million dollar deals to market

Midwest
Vice President of Marketing - CPG - Consumer Products
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Vice President of Marketing - CPG - Consumer Products

Challenges

  • Strong durables, electronics, small appliance and/or product experience
  • Seasoned general manager with experience managing eCommerce and digital channels
  • Proven ability to grow a category from the ground up
  • Action-oriented problem solver

Success

  • Seasoned general manager and cross-functional leader who has built multiple businesses from small ventures into high-performing business units

Southeast
Vice President, Brand, Social Media, and Digital Marketing - CPG - HBA
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Vice President, Brand, Social Media, and Digital Marketing - CPG - HBA

Challenges

  • CPG foundation plus deep digital/social
  • Understands branding and optimization
  • Brought best practices to drive awareness, engagement, and profitable sales
  • Aligned organizations to new processes and procedures

Success

  • Direct category experience plus expertise in branding, organic social and influencer programs, and a track record of successfully partnering with private equity companies

Partnering to hire the best consumer marketing and insights professionals.

Make an exponential difference in your business by building the right team.

Consumer Marketing

We foster relationships with the CPG industry’s top marketing and brand management professionals. Let us introduce you.

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Consumer Insights

Need consumer insights and analytics professionals who master marketplace complexities? We’ll help you recruit them.

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From Our Clients


O’Connell Group goes deeper than other firms to find the right candidate. They make sure they really understand the pain points of the hiring manager and the intricacies of the company.

President
Specialty Food Company