Author Archives: JRG Partners Editorial Staff

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Consumer goods executive compensation varies enough by company type, category, scale, and location that a single benchmark figure would mislead […]

Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Executives from direct-to-consumer brands moving into traditional consumer goods bring capabilities the industry […]

Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Most consumer goods candidates who interview poorly are not underqualified; they make a consistent set of errors that […]

Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. The choice between an emerging consumer brand and an established company is usually framed as risk versus security, which […]

Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Holding two or more consumer goods offers is a good position that candidates frequently mishandle, either by attempting to […]

Drawing on the searches we run, this lays out what actually separates the candidates who get these roles from those who do not. New consumer goods executives face a specific early trap: the commercial calendar does not pause for your learning curve, and decisions about pricing, […]

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. For consumer goods marketing executives, a LinkedIn profile functions mainly as a matching and verification tool: recruiters search it to find […]