Retail & Hospitality Executive Search

The Rolodex
CEOs call first.

GMs, regional VPs, and chief merchants who decide whether your next fifty stores thrive or flatline. We place them.

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Try: "Chief Merchant, luxury retail" or "VP F&B, hospitality"4,200+ placements indexed

"We've already placed this person three times this year."

14 days
Avg. time-to-shortlist
91%
18-month retention rate
96%
Offer acceptance rate
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The Difference

Not every search firm
has already placed them.

We measure ourselves against what actually matters to your board: speed, retention, and the silence of a confidential search.

Metric
Headhunt
Generalist
Internal HR
Time to First Shortlist
Calendar days from retained engagement
14 days
45–60 days
90+ days

They called me before the role was even posted. I wasn't looking — but I was listening.

Marcus WebbVP of Store Operations, Hartwell Retail Group
Specialty Retail
Candidate Retention
Still in role at 18 months
91%
62%
54%
Offer Acceptance Rate
First offer accepted, no counter-offer loss
96%
71%
58%

First shortlist, second name, done. We closed in eleven days.

Diane KowalskiCEO, Meridian Hospitality
Full-Service Dining
Confidentiality Protocol
Active search not visible to market
Full stealth
Partial
None
Sector Depth
Years of focused retail & hospitality network
22 years
2–4 years
Varies

Three portfolio companies, three placements, zero misses. That's the only track record I care about.

Raj SubramaniamOperating Partner, Arclight Capital
PE / Portfolio

Three portfolio companies, three placements, zero misses. That's the only track record I care about.

Raj SubramaniamOperating Partner, Arclight Capital
PE / Portfolio

They understood the brief before I finished the sentence. The shortlist read like they'd been watching my industry for a decade. They had.

Priya NairChief People Officer, Luxe Living Stores
Luxury Retail
Hiring Diagnostic

Diagnose Your
Hiring Gap

Five questions. Ninety seconds. A calibrated urgency score — and the shortlist that ends the search.

Question 1 of 50% complete

What seniority is the open seat?

Select the level closest to the role you need to fill.

Live Urgency Gauge

Hiring Urgency0 / 100
LowCritical
Manageable
0–39
Elevated Risk
40–64
High Urgency
65–84
Critical
85–100

Why this matters

A vacant VP seat in retail operations costs an average of $1.4M per month in lost efficiency, delayed decisions, and leadership drift — before you account for the revenue impact of misaligned floor execution.

"The cost of the wrong hire is three times the cost of the right search. The cost of no hire is five times both."

— Headhunt Research, 2025

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