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How to Hire a Frozen Foods Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire frozen foods leaders who combine strong commercial and operational capability — including the demands of the cold chain — with brand strength and an understanding of the category’s evolving image, from convenience staple to quality, health, and premium. The best pair operational rigour with […]
How to Hire a Dairy Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire dairy leaders who combine strong commercial and operational capability at scale with brand strength and an understanding of the category’s science, supply chain, and increasingly its innovation and sustainability pressures. The best pair the rigour to run a large, complex, often commodity-influenced business with […]
How to Hire a Plant-Based Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire plant-based leaders who combine genuine understanding of the category’s mission- and health-driven consumer and its science and innovation demands with strong brand and commercial capability — and the realism to build a durable business, not just ride a trend. The best pair authentic belief […]
How to Hire a Snacks & Confectionery Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire snacks and confectionery leaders who combine strong brand and marketing capability with genuine understanding of the category’s impulse and indulgence dynamics, fast innovation, and increasingly health and better-for-you trends. The best pair the ability to build and grow beloved brands with the commercial and […]
Talent Acquisition vs Recruitment: What’s the Difference?
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerRecruitment generally refers to the process of filling roles — sourcing, assessing, and hiring for current openings. Talent acquisition is a broader, more strategic concept — the ongoing, strategic building of the talent an organisation needs, including employer branding, talent pipelining, and workforce planning, not […]
How to Hire a VP of Product
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire a VP of Product who combines genuine product craft and customer insight with the leadership to build and run a product team and deliver — matched to your product, model, and stage. Look for a leader who can set product direction, make sound prioritisation […]
How to Hire a Head of Talent Acquisition
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire a Head of Talent Acquisition who combines genuine talent acquisition expertise with the leadership to build and run an effective hiring function, matched to your scale and challenge — whether building the function, scaling hiring for growth, or raising quality. Look for a leader […]
What Does a Head of Talent Acquisition Do?
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerA Head of Talent Acquisition leads a business’s hiring function — the strategy, team, and processes for attracting, assessing, and hiring the talent the business needs. As talent is central to most businesses’ success, it is an important role, combining the operational running of hiring […]
How to Hire a Chief Diversity Officer
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire a Chief Diversity Officer who combines genuine DEI expertise and credibility with the strategic and change-leadership capability to drive real organisational change, and — crucially — ensure genuine leadership commitment is behind the role before hiring. Look for a leader who can influence and […]
What Does a Chief Diversity Officer Do?
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerA Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) leads a business’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy and efforts — working to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation and culture. The role combines strategy, culture change, and influence across the business, and its impact depends heavily […]
