
Logistics & Supply Chain CFO Search · New Delhi · 2026
Top CFO Executive Search Firm in New Delhi for Logistics — 2026
Retained CFO and finance-leadership search for the capital region's logistics economy — 3PL and freight, warehousing and grade-A parks, express and last-mile, and logistics technology. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics CFO seat in New Delhi actually demands
The capital region is North India's logistics gateway — inland container depots, freight-corridor termini and a dense warehousing-and-distribution base — mid-formalisation on GST, e-commerce and the corridor build-out. The logistics CFO mandate is shaped by asset intensity and thin margins. An asset-and-operations CFO — 3PL, freight, warehousing or express — manages network costing, asset financing, fuel and fleet economics, and the working-capital and margin discipline of a low-margin, high-volume business; a warehousing or parks CFO runs development finance, leasing economics and the capital structure of a real-asset platform, often PE-backed; a logistics-tech CFO funds a venture-backed platform on burn, unit economics and a path to profitability. The defining scarcity is the finance leader who can build margin and capital discipline into a thin-margin, asset-heavy business while funding formalisation and growth.
Compensation tracks the model — asset-and-operations businesses are cash-led with performance pay; logistics-tech and venture-backed platforms lean equity-led. The brief codifies the construction. The stakeholder map runs from promoters, PE sponsors, boards and lenders to operations finance, auditors and large customers. References reach to boards, lenders and finance peers, because the question that decides these mandates — can this leader build margin, capital and cash discipline at scale — is answered by those who have watched a logistics balance sheet under their hand.
Representative Logistics CFO mandates in New Delhi
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
3PL / freight / express CFO
A 3PL, freight or express business needing a CFO who can run network costing, asset financing and the margin and working-capital discipline of a thin-margin business.
Warehousing / logistics-parks CFO
A warehousing or grade-A parks platform requiring a finance leader fluent in development finance, leasing economics and the capital structure of a real-asset, often PE-backed platform.
Logistics-tech / platform CFO
A venture-backed logistics-technology or last-mile platform needing a CFO who can fund the business on burn, unit economics and a path to profitability.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Network and asset costing — route, fleet and warehouse costing and asset financing
- →Margin and working-capital discipline — building leverage in a thin-margin business
- →Development and leasing finance — for warehousing, real-asset capital structure and economics
- →Unit economics — for logistics-tech, burn, contribution margin and path to profitability
- →Lender and investor partnership — boards, sponsors and lenders as relevant
Compensation shape
Logistics CFO compensation in the capital region tracks the model. Asset-and-operations businesses are cash-led with performance pay and long-term incentives; logistics-tech and venture-backed platforms lean equity-led with a cash base plus ESOP. We codify which construction applies in the calibration brief.
Led by New Delhi's top CEO and CFO search consultants
The New Delhi logistics 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 New Delhi logistics 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 New Delhi's logistics economy, and confidential by default. 120+ CFO placements across the Global CFO Practice. Boards looking for a specialist CFO recruiting firm in New Delhi for logistics retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in New Delhi for Logistics
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru; logistics and supply-chain finance-leadership coverage.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; logistics-tech, warehousing and PE-backed logistics CFO mandates.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; logistics and supply-chain CFO succession and finance-leadership evaluation.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai; logistics, transport and industrial coverage.
Michael Page
Global PageGroup brand with India operations; mid-to-senior and CFO-level logistics finance hiring at volume.
Spencer Stuart
Tier-1 global board and CFO-succession specialist with strong India presence; logistics and infrastructure finance-officer appointments.
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