
Logistics & Supply Chain CEO & MD Search · Hyderabad · 2026
Top CEO Executive Search Firm in Hyderabad for Logistics & Supply Chain — 2026
Retained CEO and Managing Director search for Hyderabad's logistics and supply-chain economy — pharma cold chain, e-commerce logistics, 3PL and contract logistics, and air cargo. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics & Supply Chain CEO seat in Hyderabad actually demands
Hyderabad's logistics economy has a defining specialism — pharma and life-sciences cold chain — reflecting the city's status as a pharma and vaccine capital, alongside e-commerce fulfilment, 3PL and contract logistics, air cargo through a major cargo gateway, and warehousing. The CEO mandate turns on combining thin-margin, asset- and compliance-intensive operations with the technology and network thinking that makes logistics defensible. A pharma cold-chain leader must hold temperature-controlled compliance, GDP standards and global-client confidence; a 3PL or e-commerce logistics leader must run cost-to-serve, network and service-level economics; a logistics-technology business must fund and scale a platform. The defining scarcity is the leader who can hold operational and compliance discipline while building network and unit economics.
Compensation is largely cash-led with performance pay for established operators and equity-led for venture-backed logistics-technology businesses. The brief sets which applies. The stakeholder map runs from promoters or investors to pharma, e-commerce and enterprise customers, regulators and a large frontline workforce. References reach to anchor customers, operating leaders and investors, because the question that decides these mandates — can this leader hold reliability, compliance and economics together at scale — is answered by those who have watched the network perform.
Representative Logistics & Supply Chain CEO mandates in Hyderabad
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Pharma cold-chain / life-sciences logistics CEO
A pharma cold-chain or life-sciences logistics business needing a chief executive who can hold temperature-controlled compliance and GDP standards while winning global-client confidence and scaling the network.
3PL / e-commerce logistics CEO
A 3PL, contract-logistics or e-commerce-fulfilment operator requiring a leader who can run cost-to-serve, network and service-level economics with thin-margin discipline.
Logistics-technology / air-cargo CEO
A logistics-technology platform or air-cargo business needing a CEO who can scale a network or asset base while building data and unit-economics advantages.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Compliance-and-operations command — cold-chain, GDP and reliability discipline at scale
- →Customer and service-level credibility — winning pharma, e-commerce and enterprise customers
- →Unit-economics discipline — holding margins in a thin-margin, high-volume business
- →Technology and network modernisation — building data and routing advantages
- →Workforce leadership at scale — leading a large frontline operation safely
Compensation shape
Logistics CEO compensation in Hyderabad is largely cash-led with performance bonus for established cold-chain, 3PL and air-cargo operators, and equity-led — cash base plus ESOP and milestone upside — for venture-backed logistics-technology businesses. We codify which logic governs the mandate in the calibration brief.
Led by Hyderabad's top CEO and CFO search consultants
The Hyderabad logistics & supply chain CEO and CFO practices are led personally — board chemistry, slate calibration and the close sit with a named, accountable consultant.

Anandh Shanmugaraj
Founder of Gladwin International and India's leading CEO search consultant. He leads every Hyderabad logistics & supply chain CEO and Managing Director mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar
Director & Managing Partner of Gladwin International and head of its Global CFO Practice — India's leading CFO search consultant. She leads the finance-leadership mandates that pair with these CEO appointments, from CFO to IPO-readiness finance chiefs.
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Firm-level listing. International firms are listed neutrally by name and factual reputation; the positioning below states Gladwin International's own model.
Gladwin International
India-rooted, research-driven retained CEO search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Hyderabad's logistics & supply chain economy, and confidential by default. 200+ CEO/MD placements since 2010, delivered on a 105–130 days cycle. Boards looking for a specialist CEO recruiting firm in Hyderabad for logistics & supply chain retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Hyderabad for Logistics & Supply Chain
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India coverage including Hyderabad; logistics and supply-chain leadership with scaled assessment.
Boyden
Global firm with India operations; logistics, transport and supply-chain leadership across operators and platforms.
Transearch
Global firm with an India practice; logistics, transport and industrial leadership with a cross-border network.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Hyderabad-region, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR; logistics, supply-chain and consumer coverage.
Stanton Chase
Global firm with India offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi; logistics, industrial and transport leadership.
Michael Page
Global PageGroup brand with India operations; mid-to-senior and C-suite supply-chain and logistics hiring at volume.
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