Chief Executive Officer - Beauty & Personal Care

Client Context:

High-growth, digital-first beauty and personal care brand focused on science-backed, effective products is hiring for a CEO.

Critical Mandate:

The ideal candidate should be a proven founder who has built and scaled a consumer business, ideally to 100 Cr+ revenue/GMV, and successfully exited or realised meaningful liquidity. They should bring strong ownership across P&L, growth, brand and organisation building, preferably within D2C, beauty, FMCG or e-commerce.

The person would be responsible for owning the overall P&L, driving growth and profitability, scaling the brand across channels, identifying new categories and growth engines, building a high-performing leadership team, and partnering with the founders, investors and board to create long-term enterprise value.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Own the P&L, growth, profitability and enterprise value creation for the business.

- Define and execute the roadmap for scaling the company to its next level of revenue.

- Drive growth across D2C, marketplaces, quick commerce and emerging channels.

- Identify new categories, products, consumer segments and growth engines.

- Build a high-performance leadership team across growth, marketing, product, sales, supply chain, finance and operations.

- Establish a culture of ownership, speed, accountability and customer obsession.

- Partner with founders, investors and the board on strategy, capital allocation and long-term value creation.

Experience & Skills:

- Founder/entrepreneurial experience is a must.

- Proven track record of building and scaling a consumer-facing business from the ground up.

- Ideally, experience scaling a business to 100 Cr+ revenue/GMV or equivalent scale.

- Demonstrated ownership of P&L, brand, growth, product and organisation building.

- Successful exit, sale, merger or meaningful liquidity event from a previous venture.

- Experience across D2C, beauty and personal care, FMCG, retail, e-commerce or consumer is strongly preferred.

- Strong understanding of digital acquisition, marketplaces, quick commerce and consumer behaviour.

- Builder mindset with the ability to balance strategy, execution and capital discipline.