Logistics & Supply Chain CTO Search · Pune · 2026
Top CTO Executive Search Firm in Pune for Logistics — 2026
Retained CTO and engineering-leadership search for Pune's logistics and supply-chain economy — logistics-platform CTOs, fulfilment and warehouse product engineering heads and routing-and-supply-chain-AI leaders. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics CTO seat in Pune actually demands
Pune's logistics-and-supply-chain technology is built where the physical network meets the engineering base — the routing, fleet, warehouse and visibility platforms developed in the city's engineering corridors to serve the just-in-time demands of the Chakan-PCMC manufacturing belt and the Mumbai-port gateway three hours away. The CTO here is a builder of logistics-technology products and engineering organisations, not the enterprise-IT administrator who runs internal systems; that is a CIO's role. The leader owns platform and optimisation architecture, the engineering culture, the applied-AI and routing capability, and the velocity at which the software ships.
The defining scarcity is the engineering leader who can build and scale a logistics platform — handling real-time tracking, optimisation and supply-chain data — while drawing on Pune's systems-engineering pipeline and its proximity to a live industrial logistics network to build the team. The failure mode is an engineer who has never carried operational-scale systems, or a leader who cannot scale the engineering organisation.
The search is calibrated to stage. Venture-backed logistics-tech leans equity-led; established players blend a strong base with long-term incentives, and the brief sets which applies. The stakeholder map runs from founders and the CEO to product and engineering principals. References reach to the engineers who have shipped under the candidate, because whether a leader can build a logistics platform at scale is answered by those who built it alongside them.
Representative Logistics CTO mandates in Pune
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Founding / scaling logistics CTO
A venture-backed logistics-tech or warehouse-automation business needing a CTO to build the platform that coordinates a physical network and the engineering organisation behind it.
Fulfilment / warehouse product engineering head
A logistics or commerce business requiring an engineering leader to build the fulfilment and warehouse product that decides cost and speed.
Routing / supply-chain-AI engineering leader
A logistics business needing a leader to build the routing, optimisation and supply-chain-AI that is the core of the product.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Physical-network platform engineering — running a moving network reliably at scale
- →Routing and optimisation — the AI that decides cost and speed, as core product
- →Fulfilment and warehouse product — software where every gain is real cost and time
- →Real-world modelling — handling the messy reality of physical logistics
- →Founder and operations partnership — operating as a peer to product and operations leadership
Compensation shape
Logistics CTO compensation in Pune is equity-led in venture-backed logistics-tech and warehouse-automation, 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 Pune's top CTO and CFO search consultants
The Pune logistics CTO 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 CTO and engineering-leadership search consultant. He leads every Pune logistics CTO and product-engineering 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 CTO 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 CTO and engineering-leadership search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Pune's logistics economy, and confidential by default. 100+ CTO and engineering-leadership placements across the Global CTO Practice. Founders, CEOs and boards looking for a specialist CTO recruiting firm in Pune for logistics retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Pune for Logistics
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Pune, Bengaluru and Mumbai; logistics, supply-chain and engineering-leadership coverage.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; logistics-tech, warehouse-automation and venture-backed supply-chain-product CTO mandates.
Kingsley Gate Partners
Technology-forward global search firm with India coverage; logistics-platform and supply-chain-product CTO mandates.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; logistics and supply-chain engineering-leadership evaluation.
Spencer Stuart
Global board and succession specialist operating in India; logistics technology and product-officer appointments.
Russell Reynolds Associates
Global firm with an India practice; logistics and supply-chain product-engineering and technology-leadership appointments.
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