Our client is a European family-owned group in premium branded consumer products, with a portfolio of long-established and contemporary brands sold internationally. The group manufactures in Europe and Asia and operates through subsidiaries in its principal markets. Its United States business is the group's largest and most profitable, headquartered in New Jersey within the New York metropolitan area, where the company also operates its own distribution center serving the United States and Canada. The culture is mission-led and hands-on, with a compact global leadership team, unusually long employee tenure, and a shareholder base that takes a deliberately long-term view of the business.
Reporting to the Group Chief Executive Officer and serving on the global leadership team, the EVP / General Manager, North America holds full profit and loss accountability for the region: a business of under $100 million in net sales at strong double-digit operating margins, a team of approximately 100 people, and a company-operated distribution center. The mandate is to grow the region substantially over the next three years while protecting margin, to accelerate the transition from a traditional specialty wholesale model to a genuinely omnichannel one, and to build the organizational capability and pace required to sustain that growth. The position carries real local decision-making authority and direct ownership of the region's largest customer relationships.
Our client is seeking an accomplished market leader rather than a functional specialist: a country or regional head with a commercial background, willing to lead annual negotiations with major accounts personally. Candidates will have run a United States or North American business of comparable or greater scale within premium, brand-led consumer products — for example beauty and personal care, specialty and premium food and beverage, toys and creative play, housewares, or comparable lifestyle categories. Experience across more than one category is strongly preferred. Fluency with mass merchants, national specialty retailers and major e-commerce marketplaces is essential, as is the ability to manage a portfolio of several thousand active references. The successful candidate will be either an American executive with an established international outlook or a European executive with a proven United States track record, comfortable alongside a European leadership team and a family shareholder board. Candidates with the potential to progress to a group-level leadership role over a three- to five-year horizon will receive particular consideration.
Our client is a founder-led designer and distributor of officially licensed collegiate and professional sports apparel, headquartered in Los Angeles. Established approximately ten years ago, the company holds licenses with major college and professional sports leagues and maintains hundreds of school and team partnerships. Approximately 70% of revenue is generated through wholesale across close to 1,000 doors, including college bookstores, national sporting goods chains, and specialty retailers. The remaining 30% comes from a direct-to-consumer e-commerce channel that has grown every year. Having recently secured additional league licenses, the company is preparing to expand into new licensing territories and product categories.
In this newly created position, the Director of Marketing will take over leadership of the marketing function from the Co-Founder and Co-CEO, to whom the role reports. The primary objective is to bring analytical rigor and accountability to an established brand: scale the direct-to-consumer channel profitably, optimize the existing marketing budget, and build the structure, measurement, and processes required for the company's next stage of growth. The role is performance-driven first, while requiring sound creative judgment.
The ideal candidate is a performance-oriented marketing leader with a background in apparel, licensed sports products, or another consumer category with high SKU complexity, such as color cosmetics. Relevant backgrounds include licensed sports apparel companies such as Fanatics, '47, or Homage, digitally native apparel brands, and multi-SKU beauty brands such as e.l.f. Cosmetics or ColourPop. The candidate combines a command of unit economics with the management experience needed to develop an early-career team, and works effectively alongside hands-on founders in an entrepreneurial environment. Adaptability and openness to an unconventional approach are essential.
Our client is an emerging luxury lifestyle company based in New York City, developing a differentiated platform across e-commerce, gifting, subscriptions, and physical retail. The business is focused on highly curated products within wine, chocolate, coffee, and tea, with an emphasis on craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and a distinctive consumer experience.
The company is currently building its core team ahead of launch and is backed by substantial founder investment. Its ambition is to develop an integrated lifestyle brand combining premium products, compelling digital experiences, community engagement, and experiential retail.
Our client is seeking a Social & Growth Marketing Manager to help build the brand's audience, digital presence, and customer acquisition capabilities from the ground up.
Reporting directly to the Founder and working closely with the Head of Brand & Design and product experts, this individual will take ownership of social media, content, influencer and community initiatives while also contributing to paid media, retention, and growth marketing.
This is a highly hands-on role suited to an entrepreneurial marketer who enjoys both developing strategy and executing it directly within an early-stage environment.
The successful candidate will bring at least 5 years of marketing experience, including meaningful experience within a direct-to-consumer consumer brand.
The ideal background could include premium or luxury businesses across food and beverage, beauty, fashion, hospitality, gifting, or other lifestyle categories. Experience building an audience from an early stage will be particularly relevant.
Candidates should demonstrate:
Existing relationships within New York's food, lifestyle, media, creator, or influencer communities would be advantageous.
Our client is a privately held importer and wholesale distributor of premium herbal and botanical ingredients serving approximately 150 established customers across North America. Its customers include specialty tea and beverage manufacturers, wholesale and food-service distributors, and contract manufacturers.
With approximately $3.5–$4 million in annual sales, the company operates with a lean, small entrepreneurial structure and has built its business around product quality, reliable supply, responsive customer service, and long-term industry relationships.
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Sales Manager to take a leading role in managing and developing its North American business.
The priority is to identify an established sales professional with recent experience in the tea, herbal, botanical, or closely related food and beverage ingredient industry, along with a strong network of existing industry contacts.
The successful candidate will manage and expand established customer relationships while developing new business opportunities. The role is highly autonomous and hands-on, working directly with the President and coordinating closely on sales, pricing, forecasting, inventory, supply, and customer requirements.
Candidates with broader commercial and operational experience who could ultimately assume a General Manager-level scope will also be considered.
The ideal candidate is a well-established industry professional who understands how specialty ingredients move from international suppliers through importation, warehousing, distribution, and ultimately to manufacturers and other B2B customers.
Existing relationships within the tea, beverage, botanical, herbal ingredient, or adjacent specialty food ingredient markets are particularly important. The company values market knowledge, credibility, customer relationships, and practical experience.
A California-based candidate is strongly preferred. Candidates in nearby Western states may also be considered depending on their experience and industry network.
The preferred individual will have a consultative, relationship-oriented sales style rather than a highly transactional or aggressive approach.
Our client is a global leader in the sporting goods industry, specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, and distribution of branded and licensed sports equipment and accessories. As one of the largest and longest-standing licensees of a leading global athletic brand, the company manages tens of thousands of SKUs across performance and team sports categories, including apparel, inflatables, hydration, and protective products. Privately held and headquartered in the Los Angeles area, with an international sales office in the Netherlands, it distributes to approximately 20,000 retail doors across North America.
Our client is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to own its largest and most strategic retail relationship, Dick's Sporting Goods. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and reporting to the Senior Director of Sales, the successful candidate will create and drive a focused account plan, serve as the voice of the account internally, and lead seasonal go-to-market execution that supports retailer profitability and marketplace differentiation. This is an individual contributor position, working alongside an Account Manager and dedicated support functions, established to expand coverage of the account as the business continues to grow.
Our client will consider candidates from a range of backgrounds, including national account sales, buying, line planning, and assortment planning, provided they bring a strong command of retail dynamics and experience managing significant customer relationships. Sporting goods experience — brand-side, manufacturer-side, or with retailers such as Scheels or Academy Sports + Outdoors — is preferred, though experience with a specific brand is not required, as structured onboarding and mentorship are provided. The successful candidate will be proactive and high in integrity, with sound commercial judgment and the ability to build credibility across internal and external stakeholders.
Our client is a growing jewelry distribution business specializing in commodity-based gold and silver jewelry supplied to major big box retail accounts, including Walmart and Target. The company operates in a lean, owner-led environment in which the finance function sits close to daily commercial decision-making. The position is based in northern New Jersey and is performed on site five days per week.
Our client is seeking a Controller to assume ownership of the accounting function and of the accuracy and timeliness of the company's financial reporting. The Controller will manage the monthly close, produce the reporting required under the company's asset-based lending facility, and lead the accounting and finance team. The role is intentionally hands-on, combining direct responsibility for the company's books with the analytical work required to keep ownership and the management team properly informed of financial and operational performance. The appointment follows the forthcoming retirement of the long-tenured incumbent, and the successful candidate will therefore assume stewardship of a finance function that has been led by the same individual for many years.
The successful candidate will be an experienced Controller drawn from a distribution, manufacturing or otherwise commodity-driven business, accustomed to an environment in which inventory and accounts receivable carry significant weight in both reporting and lender relationships. Exposure to precious metals or a comparable commodity-linked category would be a distinct advantage. The candidate will be comfortable operating without an extensive support structure, capable of moving between detailed transactional work and management-level analysis, and confident communicating financial matters directly to ownership. Candidates are expected to be operating today at Controller or Accounting Director level.
Our client is a well-established, century-old manufacturer of home-environment and small appliance products, recognized as a category leader across its core markets. Under new executive leadership, the organization is broadening its product portfolio into adjacent categories and placing renewed strategic emphasis on brand licensing and international commercial expansion.
Reporting to the Vice President of Sales Strategy & Business Development, this newly created position will serve as the organization's lead executive for global brand licensing. Licensing expertise is the priority for this search: the successful candidate will be responsible for building a scalable licensing strategy from an early stage, sourcing and negotiating partnerships, and protecting brand equity across categories. International sales and distributor management experience is considered a strong preferred qualification and will be viewed favorably for candidates who bring both skill sets, though it is not required.
The ideal candidate has spent the majority of their career in brand licensing, ideally within consumer durables, home products, or appliances, and may come from an organization known for a licensing-driven brand-extension model, such as SharkNinja, Newell Brands, Spectrum Brands, Helen of Troy, or Conair. This professional approaches licensing partnerships as standalone business ventures – building a tailored business case for each partner – rather than as transactional sales relationships. Candidates who additionally bring experience managing international distributors, importers, or retail partners – particularly within European markets – will be considered particularly strong fits for the role.
Licensing (Primary Focus)
International Sales (Preferred, for Top Candidates)
Our client is a fast-growing direct-to-consumer brand operating at the intersection of consumer health, beauty, skincare, performance marketing, and digital commerce. The company develops and sells its own products directly to consumers, with a strong emphasis on science-backed positioning, consumer education, creative testing, and measurable acquisition performance.
The business is in a significant growth phase and is backed by the resources and infrastructure of a larger public company. The culture is fast-paced, highly analytical, ambitious, and execution-oriented, with a strong focus on rapid testing, clear ownership, and commercial results.
The Director of Performance Creative will lead the customer acquisition and performance creative function for a high-growth direct-to-consumer brand. Reporting directly to the CEO, this person will oversee a sizeable growth team and will be responsible for translating business goals into clear acquisition strategies, creative testing roadmaps, and performance improvements.
This is a strategic leadership role requiring strong judgment across paid social, creative strategy, consumer psychology, product positioning, funnel performance, and team execution. The successful candidate will bring structure, speed, and analytical rigor to a high-volume performance marketing environment.
The ideal candidate will come from a high-growth direct-to-consumer, consumer health, beauty, skincare, wellness, subscription, or digitally native consumer business. Relevant backgrounds may include performance-led brands in beauty, personal care, wellness, nutrition, pet care, food, apparel, or other consumer categories with strong digital acquisition models.
This person should have strong experience in paid social acquisition, especially Meta and TikTok, and a clear understanding of creative testing, user-generated content, influencer content, whitelisted ads, short-form video, landing page performance, and conversion optimization.
The successful candidate will be analytical, creative, operationally disciplined, and comfortable leading in an intense, ambitious, and fast-moving environment. They should be able to assess creative work critically, interpret performance data, make decisive recommendations, and motivate a large team around aggressive growth objectives.
Our client is a leading global player in the Wines & Spirits industry, recognized for its premium portfolio of renowned brands. They are committed to driving growth through innovative strategies and premium experiences. As they expand their presence in the dynamic New York City market, they are seeking a passionate and results-driven professional to manage the Asia channel. This channel primarily focuses on key venues such as karaoke bars, nightclubs, and banquet halls, where the Asian market is thriving.
The NYC Market Manager for the Asia Channel will play a critical role in driving channel-specific performance across priority venues in the New York City and Flushing markets. Working closely with distributor selling divisions and priority Asian channel accounts, this individual will be responsible for building relationships, driving sales, and ensuring the execution of high-quality brand representation. The role requires a native or near-native Mandarin speaker with strong knowledge of the NYC market, and the ability to visit clients regularly, including evenings and weekends for events.
Our client is an established premium children’s and family apparel company with a strong direct-to-consumer heritage and a commitment to product quality, thoughtful design, and responsible business practices. The organization combines the resources and market recognition of an established company with the pace, adaptability, and entrepreneurial mindset of a growth-stage business.
As part of its broader channel expansion strategy, the company is developing a dedicated Amazon business designed to complement its existing commercial ecosystem while protecting its premium positioning and pricing integrity.
The General Manager, Amazon will have end-to-end accountability for building, operating, and scaling the company’s Amazon business. Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, this individual will own the channel P&L and oversee commercial strategy, marketplace operations, performance marketing, agency management, forecasting, and customer acquisition.
This is an individual-contributor leadership role requiring a strong general manager who can move effectively between strategy and execution. The successful candidate will use external agencies as an extension of the team while remaining sufficiently hands-on to evaluate their work, challenge recommendations, and intervene directly in Seller Central when required.
The successful candidate will combine commercial leadership with recent, in-depth Amazon platform experience. They will have previously owned or materially influenced a marketplace P&L and demonstrated the ability to scale an Amazon business from an early stage to meaningful revenue.
Experience within premium children’s or family apparel is required, including familiarity with complex SKU structures, sizing, seasonality, gifting occasions, inventory planning, and brand-sensitive promotional strategies. Candidates should come from an entrepreneurial or resource-conscious environment where they have operated without extensive internal teams.
This individual must be analytical, commercially disciplined, adaptable, and capable of influencing cross-functional stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
Our client is a privately owned, family-operated apparel company with a long-standing position in the girls’ and juniors’ market. The company designs, merchandises, sells, and develops seasonal collections for major department stores and retail chains, with an established showroom in New York City and a highly product-driven operating model.
The organization has approximately 65 employees in its New York office, with in-house sample capabilities and long-standing overseas manufacturing partners. The culture is fast-paced, hands-on, and highly collaborative, with employees expected to operate beyond narrow job descriptions and contribute directly to the execution of the business.
Our client is creating a senior Operations role to support the company’s continued growth and increasing operational complexity. The Head of Operations will partner closely with the President/General Manager and ownership to ensure that teams, processes, systems, and resources are properly aligned as the business scales.
This role is intended for a hands-on operational leader who understands how a wholesale apparel or consumer goods business functions from sales through production, customer onboarding, internal communication, staffing, and execution. The successful candidate will help professionalize processes, improve accountability, and ensure that every department has the structure and support needed to operate efficiently.
The ideal candidate will have held a senior operations, business operations, general management, or COO-type role within an apparel, fashion accessories, consumer goods, or related wholesale business selling to major retailers such as Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, Dillard’s, or similar accounts.
They should understand the operational realities of seasonal product businesses, including sales handoff, production timelines, customer requirements, showroom or market calendar pressures, cross-functional coordination, and the importance of clear internal ownership. Experience in a founder-led, family-owned, entrepreneurial, or mid-sized company environment would be particularly relevant.
The right person will be structured, pragmatic, and comfortable getting into the details while also operating at a senior leadership level. Strong communication skills, business judgment, and the ability to build trust with product, sales, finance, production, HR, and warehouse partners are essential.
Our client is a privately held travel company that has inspired millions of Americans to explore Europe through its tour programs, guidebooks, public television series, weekly radio show, and growing digital presence. The organization is mission-driven, built on the conviction that travel is a meaningful way to foster cultural understanding and connection across the world. It maintains a relaxed, values-oriented culture with a strong emphasis on work-life balance.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Brand Marketing and Customer Experience, the Communications and Social Media Director will steward and elevate the public voice of the company's founder. This is a highly collaborative, trust-driven position that combines communications leadership with hands-on social media execution, ensuring that the founder's voice, values, and perspective on travel are conveyed consistently and authentically across all channels.
The successful candidate is an accomplished communications professional with the maturity and judgment to advise a high-profile founder while also acting as the day-to-day creator of content in his voice. They are an exceptional writer, able to capture a distinctive personal tone built on metaphor, idiom, and personality. They bring confidence and independence, contributing creative ideas and thoughtful pushback rather than simply executing instructions, and they are comfortable conveying a founder's openly held personal and social viewpoints. Prior travel-industry experience is not required, though a genuine personal interest in travel and alignment with a mission of global connection is preferred. Comparable backgrounds may be found within founder-led consumer brands where earned-media strategy is built around the voice of a recognizable public figure.
Our client is a privately held apparel company headquartered in Manhattan, with a long-standing wholesale business serving mid- to upper-tier department stores and select large national retailers. The organization is highly operational and product-led, with approximately 50 employees on-site and in-house sample capabilities (including cutting and sewing), complemented by overseas development and manufacturing partners. The culture is fast-paced and performance-oriented, with a strong emphasis on accountability, collaboration, and consistent in-office engagement.
The Controller will serve as the head of accounting and finance, providing rigorous financial reporting and controls while acting as a practical business partner to the on-site President. The primary objective is to strengthen reporting, costing, and inventory disciplines and to improve the flow of information and processes across sales, production/pre-production, design, warehouse, and finance; eliminating any redundancy and manual entry when possible. Monthly financial closing should be completed within 20 days after month’s end.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on accounting leader with the presence and communication skills to work effectively with senior leadership and to influence non-financial stakeholders. Prior Controller experience in apparel/fashion is preferred; candidates from broader consumer products are also of interest when they have supported wholesale businesses selling to major retailers and department stores (e.g., Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Sam’s Club). This role suits an operator who can diagnose issues quickly, implement pragmatic process improvements, and remain appropriately detailed in a deadline-driven environment. The position is expected to be on-site daily initially; limited flexibility may be considered once fully established.
Our client is a leading Canadian wine producer with national operations, multiple wineries and a major commercial facility in the Niagara region. The portfolio includes large scale domestic and international blends, Charmat method sparkling wines and adjacent categories such as ciders and seltzers.
The company is in the middle of a cultural and operational transformation, with a strong focus on continuous improvement, cost efficiency and consistent quality across high volume brands.
The Director of Winemaking leads all commercial winemaking and cellar operations for the Ontario winery, handling very significant tonnage and storage capacity.
The role’s objective is to deliver quality, cost effective wines at scale that meet brand and market expectations, while driving operational discipline, process improvement and culture change within the winemaking and cellar teams. The Director partners closely with Supply Chain and Operations, and collaborates with estate winemaking where alignment is needed, though the core remit is volume oriented wines.
A degree in oenology, viticulture, food science or related field is expected, plus substantial practical winery experience. International candidates open to relocating to Niagara will be considered.
Winemaking and Operations
Continuous Improvement and Cost Management
Team Leadership and Culture
Cross Functional Collaboration
Our client is a specialized automotive restoration and restomod company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company focuses on high-end classic FORD trucks and SUVs, combining vintage character with modern drivability, updated engineering, contemporary powertrain solutions, and refined craftsmanship.
The business is family-owned, entrepreneurial, and entering an important expansion phase. It operates from a large workshop environment and is building a stronger operational structure to support increasing demand, improve production flow, and continue elevating the quality, reliability, and consistency of its builds.
Our client is seeking a hands-on Director of Operations to lead day-to-day shop operations, supervise and develop the technical team, and bring greater structure, accountability, and execution discipline to the business.
This is primarily an operational and technical leadership role, not a sales or business development position. The successful candidate will work closely with ownership and the shop team to improve workflow, project planning, technical standards, employee development, quality control, and on-time completion of customer vehicles.
A key objective will be to bridge modern automotive systems with classic vehicle platforms, particularly older Ford trucks and SUVs being upgraded with modern Ford powertrains, electronics, chassis systems, drivetrains, and related technologies.
The ideal candidate will come from a high-end automotive restoration, restomod, custom fabrication, performance vehicle, specialty vehicle, motorsports, or advanced automotive service environment.
Relevant backgrounds may include restomod shops, custom truck or SUV builders, performance and engine-swap shops, classic Ford specialists, Ford dealership service departments, race teams, NASCAR-related shops, fabrication shops, or high-level motorsports environments where precision, problem-solving, technical discipline, and attention to detail are essential.
The right candidate may be an experienced shop leader, operations manager, master technician, fabrication leader, technical director, race team mechanic, crew chief, lead builder, or senior technician ready to step into broader management responsibility.
Strong Ford knowledge is highly preferred. The ideal candidate should understand both classic Ford vehicle platforms and modern Ford engines, drivetrains, electronics, diagnostics, wiring, and integration challenges. Experience with modern powertrain swaps such as Coyote, Godzilla, LS, Cummins diesel, or similar platforms would be highly relevant.