
Logistics & Supply Chain COO Search · Gurgaon · 2026
Top COO Executive Search Firm in Gurgaon for Logistics — 2026
Retained COO and operations-leadership search for Gurgaon's logistics and supply-chain economy — network-operations COOs, fulfilment and last-mile leaders and warehouse-operations operators. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics COO seat in Gurgaon actually demands
Logistics is the purest operations discipline, and Gurgaon is a national logistics headquarters — venture-backed logistics-tech and express-delivery platforms, 3PL majors, and the warehousing and distribution networks that sit on the NCR's road, rail and air arteries, with many head offices along the Cyber City and Golf Course Road corridors. The logistics COO here owns the network: line-haul and last-mile operations, hub and warehouse operations, capacity planning, and the service-level performance customers measure to the hour. This is execution leadership at its most exposed — distinct from the CEO and from the product-building CTO — judged on cost, reliability and the unrelenting cadence of moving goods at scale.
The search is calibrated to Gurgaon's mix of scaled platforms and aggressive cash. Venture-backed logistics-tech leans equity-led, where ESOP and stage fit weigh as much as base; the 3PL and express majors pay strong, structured packages with performance pay — and the brief settles which applies. The city's high executive mobility means a proven network operator can move between express and logistics-tech businesses within the same corridor, so the search reads network-operations depth and cost discipline as closely as seniority. The stakeholder map runs from CEO and network and customer-operations leadership to the hub, fleet and planning heads the COO integrates, and references reach to those who have run the network beside this leader, because a logistics operations mandate is decided by whether service and cost hold together as volume scales.
Representative Logistics COO mandates in Gurgaon
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Network-operations COO
A venture-backed logistics-tech business needing a COO to run the physical network in real time and the operating engine behind it.
Fulfilment / last-mile leader
A logistics or commerce business requiring an operations leader to run fulfilment and last-mile operations that hold service and cost.
Warehouse / hub operations operator
A logistics business needing an operator to run warehouse and hub operations with throughput, accuracy and cost discipline.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Network operations — running a moving network reliably at scale
- →Fulfilment and last-mile — operations where every gain is real cost and time
- →Warehouse and hub operations — throughput, accuracy and cost together
- →Service-cost discipline — holding service levels and cost as one operating system
- →Founder and network partnership — operating as a peer to network and supply-chain leadership
Compensation shape
Logistics COO compensation in Gurgaon is equity-led in venture-backed logistics-tech, where ESOP and the founding dynamic matter, and blends a strong base with performance pay and long-term incentives in logistics majors and the supply-chain arms of larger groups. We codify which construction applies in the calibration brief.
Led by Gurgaon's top COO and CEO search consultants
The Gurgaon logistics COO and CEO 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 Gurgaon 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 COO Practice — India's leading COO and operations-leadership search consultant. She leads every Gurgaon logistics COO and operations-leadership mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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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 COO and operations-leadership search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Gurgaon's logistics economy, and confidential by default. 100+ COO and operations-leadership placements across the Global COO Practice. Boards and CEOs looking for a specialist COO recruiting firm in Gurgaon for logistics retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Gurgaon for Logistics
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai; logistics, supply-chain and operations-leadership coverage.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; logistics-tech, freight and venture-backed operating-leadership mandates.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; logistics and supply-chain operations-leadership evaluation.
Spencer Stuart
Global board and succession specialist operating in India; logistics operating-officer appointments.
Russell Reynolds Associates
Global firm with an India practice; logistics and supply-chain operations-leadership and COO appointments.
Kingsley Gate Partners
Global search firm with India coverage; COO and operations-leadership mandates across logistics and supply chain.
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