Talent Radar · May 2026 — GCC hiring slows in BFSI, AI roles up 14%.

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Commerce moves at peak season. Your leadership bench has to move with it.

Retail and e-commerce GCCs run commerce platforms, supply chain, and growth for the parent, work that lives and dies by peak-season readiness. You need leaders who have scaled through volume spikes and stayed, and you often need them on a tighter clock than other sectors allow.

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Platform · supply chain · growth
Where we place
Scaleleaders
Pace
Peakready
The Problem

Plenty of candidates, few who've actually held quality under a peak.

Retail and commerce hiring isn't short on volume, it's short on the specific experience that matters: leaders who have run platform, fulfilment, or growth through a real peak and come out the other side. On paper a lot of people look qualified. Under festive-season load, the difference shows fast.

The clock makes it harder. Commerce hiring often runs against a launch or a season, so a slow search isn't just expensive, it misses the window the hire was for. You need speed without dropping the bar.

The test isn't whether they've done the role, it's whether they've done it at peak.
Across retail and commerce mandates
Our Approach

Speed, screened for the experience that matters.

We screen for proven scale experience, move at the pace commerce demands, and price for a competitive, fast-repricing market.

01 · Screen for the peak
Find leaders who've scaled through volume
We screen for people who have genuinely held platform, supply chain, or growth through a real peak, not just held the title in calm conditions. So the shortlist is leaders who'll stand up when the season hits, not learn on it.
02 · Move on the clock
Match the pace a launch or season sets
Commerce hiring runs against a window. We come in with the market mapped so you can move quickly when a season or launch is driving the timeline, without dropping the bar to hit the date.
03 · Price the competition
A band that holds against product and platform
Commerce leaders are courted by product companies and startups alike. We benchmark to that competitive reality so your band wins the person, rather than losing them to a faster, better-priced offer.
What This Changes

The numbers that move.

Aggregates across retail and e-commerce mandates we ran in 2024 to 2025. Not promises, the pattern under a clock.

~7 wks
Typical brief-to-offer on senior commerce and supply-chain mandates
Senior time-to-offer
~94%
Of placed leaders still in seat at twelve months
12-month retention, firm-wide
53,000+
VP-and-above leaders we can approach directly, most settled inside peer companies
Off-market senior network
Frequently Asked

Questions we get asked.

If you don't see what you're looking for, the form below is the fastest route. Most enquiries get a response within one working day.

Which retail and e-commerce roles do you place?
Commerce platform and engineering, supply chain and fulfilment, growth and category, pricing and analytics, and the GCC leadership layer that runs them, from senior IC to head-of-function.
How do you screen for real peak-scale experience?
We assess for whether a candidate has actually carried platform, fulfilment, or growth through a genuine volume spike, not just held the title. That experience is the thing a CV won't reliably show, and it's where we focus the assessment.
We're hiring against a season. Can you move fast enough?
Yes. We come in with the market mapped so you can move at the pace a launch or season demands, while still screening to the bar. We'll confirm a realistic timeline at scoping.
How do you benchmark comp in this market?
We benchmark to the competitive reality of commerce leadership, where product companies and startups bid for the same people, so your band holds up and wins the hire rather than losing it on price or speed.
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