Country Head search firm in Mumbai.
Retained Country Head search in Mumbai and across Mumbai · Pune · Western India. Country Head mandates are usually first-or-second hires for an inbound multinational, or a strategic reset for an existing entity. We run them with a market-entry lens, not a pure leadership-search lens.
How we read a Country Head.
Every Country Head candidate we shortlist for a Mumbai mandate is evaluated against five lenses, refined over two decades of Country Head placements across India and the GCC:
- 01Market-entry or scale-up experience in similar businesses
- 02Regulatory, legal and tax fluency in the target market
- 03Talent-acquisition firepower (the next 20 hires)
- 04Headquarters fluency — comfort working across time zones and matrices
- 05P&L ownership at the relevant scale
₹2.5–8 Cr fixed + variable + LTI
Typical Country Head band for Mumbai-based mandates, fixed plus variable plus long-term equity / ESOP. Adjust upward for listed-company and PE-backed roles.
14–20 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.
Cross-border Country Head mandates are a core franchise — we have placed Country Heads of global banks, technology majors, consumer brands and family-office vehicles.
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.
- Country Head mandates in Banking & Financial Services
- Country Head mandates in Asset & Wealth Management
- Country Head mandates in Insurance
- Country Head mandates in Consumer Goods & D2C
- Country Head mandates in Pharma & Life Sciences
- Country Head mandates in Media & Entertainment
Other Mumbai search practices.
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