Retail and Consumer

The Retail and Consumer practice has developed long-standing relationships at a senior level with many of the UK’s leading listed and private equity backed retail and consumer organisations.

Our areas of expertise are:

• Food and drink
• Pharmaceutical, biotech, life science
• Consumer durables
• Retail
• Travel and leisure

Our Retail and Consumer practice is experienced in delivering multi-disciplined teams to support major change, rationalisation and systems implementation programmes. Examples of successful assignments include:

• Appointment of a diversely skilled team to one of the UK’s largest food groups after they had acquired a competitor. This post acquisition team of 15+ interim managers was responsible for programme management, project delivery and integration of systems, assets and people.
• Delivery of a Group HR Director and support team into a £1bn+ private equity backed leisure business. The team undertook a cost reduction programme and turnaround of an under-performing retailer post de-merger from parent.

We are keen to build relationships with professional interim managers who have a track record of adding value to businesses at executive level. We look for individuals, who can assimilate into a client’s culture quickly, build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, take ownership of challenges and commit to deliver them to a successful conclusion.

Interim Partners’ Retail and Consumer practice places specialist interim managers into the following disciplines:

• Chief Executives
• Chief Financial Officers
• Managing Directors
• Finance Directors
• Human Resources Directors
• Operations Directors and Managers
• Commercial Directors
• Trading, Buying and Merchandising Directors
• Retail and Store Operations Directors
• Chief Engineers and Manufacturing Directors
• Supply Chain Directors
• Procurement Directors
• Project/Programme Directors and Managers
• IT Directors