
Logistics & Supply Chain CFO Search · Hyderabad · 2026
Top CFO Executive Search Firm in Hyderabad for Logistics & Supply Chain — 2026
Retained CFO and finance-leadership search for Hyderabad's logistics and supply-chain economy — pharma cold-chain finance, e-commerce logistics, 3PL asset finance, and air cargo. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics & Supply Chain CFO seat in Hyderabad actually demands
Hyderabad's logistics economy has a defining specialism — pharma and life-sciences cold chain — reflecting its status as a pharma and vaccine capital, alongside e-commerce fulfilment, 3PL and contract logistics, air cargo and warehousing. The CFO seat is a thin-margin, asset- and compliance-intensive discipline: a finance chief who can master cost-to-serve and network economics, fund and manage fleet, warehouse and temperature-controlled assets, run the working-capital cycle, and — for cold chain — hold the finance of a GDP-compliant, audited operation. The defining scarcity is the CFO who can drive network and asset economics while holding the compliance discipline the pharma supply chain demands.
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 lenders. References reach to anchor customers, operating leaders and investors, because the question that decides these mandates — can this CFO make thin-margin logistics economics work at scale — is answered by those who have watched the network under load.
Representative Logistics & Supply Chain CFO 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 CFO
A pharma cold-chain or life-sciences logistics business needing a CFO who can fund temperature-controlled and GDP-compliant assets, manage working capital and hold audited-operation finance.
3PL / e-commerce logistics CFO
A 3PL, contract-logistics or e-commerce-fulfilment operator requiring a finance chief steeped in cost-to-serve, asset finance and working-capital discipline.
Logistics-technology / air-cargo CFO
A logistics-technology platform or air-cargo business needing a CFO who can model network unit economics and fund growth and assets.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Unit-economics command — network, route and cost-to-serve modelling that drives profitability
- →Asset and cold-chain finance — funding fleet, warehouses and temperature-controlled assets
- →Compliance-linked finance — GDP and audited-operation finance for pharma cold chain
- →Working-capital discipline — managing the cash cycle in a thin-margin business
- →Capital and fundraising support — for logistics-technology businesses
Compensation shape
Logistics CFO 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 CFO search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Hyderabad's logistics & supply chain economy, and confidential by default. 120+ CFO placements across the Global CFO Practice. Boards looking for a specialist CFO 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 CFO leadership with scaled assessment.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Hyderabad-region, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR; logistics, supply-chain and consumer finance coverage.
Boyden
Global firm with India operations; logistics, transport and supply-chain finance leadership.
Transearch
Global firm with an India practice; logistics, transport and industrial finance leadership with a cross-border network.
Stanton Chase
Global firm with India offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi; logistics, industrial and transport finance leadership.
Michael Page
Global PageGroup brand with India operations; mid-to-senior supply-chain and logistics finance hiring at volume.
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