CMO search firm in Mumbai.
Retained Chief Marketing Officer search in Mumbai and across Mumbai · Pune · Western India. Marketing leadership has bifurcated into brand-led and growth-led practitioners — and most companies cannot articulate which they need until we help them shape the brief.
How we read a CMO.
Every CMO candidate we shortlist for a Mumbai mandate is evaluated against five lenses, refined over two decades of CMO placements across India and the GCC:
- 01Brand-building at scale (consumer or B2B)
- 02Performance marketing depth — paid, owned, earned
- 03Marketing-mix modelling and attribution maturity
- 04Category-creation track record (where relevant)
- 05Founder / CEO partnership on positioning
₹2–5 Cr fixed + variable + ESOP
Typical CMO band for Mumbai-based mandates, fixed plus variable plus long-term equity / ESOP. Adjust upward for listed-company and PE-backed roles.
10–14 weeks
Kick-off to signed offer. Add 4–6 weeks for confidential CXO replacements and cross-border briefs.
Retained
Single-firm retainer, milestone-billed at 25–33% of target compensation. 12-month replacement guarantee.
From the ground.
We run CMO searches across consumer, D2C, BFSI and B2B SaaS — and have helped clients reshape briefs when the role was misdefined.
Mumbai is the financial capital, and it is the centre of our BFSI, asset-management and capital-markets practice. It is also where most of our consumer-brand and pharma leadership mandates are run from.
- CMO mandates in Banking & Financial Services
- CMO mandates in Asset & Wealth Management
- CMO mandates in Insurance
- CMO mandates in Consumer Goods & D2C
- CMO mandates in Pharma & Life Sciences
- CMO mandates in Media & Entertainment
Other Mumbai search practices.
CMO search across our offices.
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