Retail and Consumer Goods Recruiters and Executive Search

We are recruiting experts in Retail and Consumer Goods

Your retail and consumer goods recruitment agency

Summit Search Group’s vast experience recruiting in the retail and consumer sector has allowed us to build a strong knowledge base of the industry and its trends. Our ability to understand our clients’ organization, business, brand and culture enables us to pinpoint what’s needed and track the right talent for the right position. In an increasingly tight market, top talent is hard to uncover and harder to obtain. Our team’s boutique approach lets us better represent your brand in the market and ensures that we leave no stone unturned.

The retail industry accounts for a considerable portion of the Canadian workforce. Like any field, it comes with its own complex set of factors when it comes to attracting top talent, so you want to work with a recruitment agency that has experience in the industry. Retention is one of the main challenges faced by hiring managers in the retail sector. Summit Search Group’s targeted executive search approach focuses on finding candidates who will be a good long-term fit for your company, helping you build a team centered around your core culture and values.

We specialize in recruiting for Retail and Consumer Goods roles

  • Account Manager
  • Area Manager
  • Automotive Sales Manager
  • Business Development Representative
  • Buyer
  • Customer Service Manager
  • Customer Service Representative
  • Department Manager
  • Director of Marketing
  • Director of Sales
  • District Sales Manager
  • General Manager
  • Inventory Manager
  • Procurement Specialist
  • Product Marketing Specialist
  • Product Marketing Specialist
  • Sales & Marketing Coordinator
  • Sales Manager
  • Sales Strategy Specialist
  • Service Supervisor
  • Store Manager
  • Team Leader
  • Territory Sales Manager
  • Territory Sales Representative
  • Vice President of Sales

See what our Retail and Consumer Goods clients are saying about us

I have been a client for several years now, and for all of the difficult and very critical searches, I have leaned on Summit Search Group to deliver - and they always do, with high accountability, top level professionalism, and with very high quality work. Summit has never let me down!

The team at Summit find ideal candidates for the positions we require. Their skilled knowledge and unique ways of finding candidates, as well as the screening process to ensure they would be a good fit within our organization is unmatched across the recruitment industry. They took the time to understand our needs, kept in communication with us and were extremely professional. Most importantly they follow up after the hire to make certain both the candidate and employer are satisfied with the change and transition. Highly recommended.

Great service from beginning to end. Summit played a huge role in helping us place many successful candidates throughout the last few years. Very thorough in screening and ensuring there were no surprises at the end of the process. Highly recommend them!

I've worked with Summit both as a job hunter and as an employer and I can say that they are very professional and they do a great job of finding and screening qualified candidates for you. High recommended.

Summit Search Group is a first class recruitment firm where they put the time and effort in to make sure there's a perfect fit between the employers and their candidates.

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Who is Summit Search Group?

Summit Search Group is a leading national professional recruitment firm committed to helping great employers hire smart, motivated people to advance both the bottom line and individual career goals.

SSG fosters a collaborative culture that drives positive business results. The work ethic at Summit can be summed up in one word: tenacious. We sort, sift and dig through our professional networks, our industry connections and our customized database of qualified candidates with a single purpose: to find the best candidates for our clients. Over nearly two decades, we’ve developed a process that relies on:

Open And Frequent Dialogue With Clients And Candidates

Open And Frequent Dialogue With Clients And Candidates

Our Network Of Nationwide Recruiting Experts

Our Network Of Nationwide Recruiting Experts

Deep Industry Knowledge In All Of Our Practice Areas

Deep Industry Knowledge In All Of Our Practice Areas

Extensive Market Research

Extensive Market Research

The Latest Technology

The Latest Technology

We’re constantly refining our processes to meet and exceed expectations. This gives us a competitive edge that sets us apart from the rest, and we’ve earned the role of the trusted partner from our clients.

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Industry Spotlight: Recruiting in Retail

The retail industry accounts for a considerable portion of the Canadian workforce. Like any field, it comes with its own complex set of factors when it comes to recruitment. It’s only right, then, that we shed some light on what it takes to build an excellent team at your retail company.

What Makes Retail Unique?

In a previous Industry Spotlight article, we focused on recruiting in sales. This may lead you to wonder what makes retail sales in particular worth examining in its own right. Firstly, retail talent can come from a particularly wide range of backgrounds when compared to other sales-oriented positions. Secondly, depending on the company, retail as an industry can have a reputation as an entry-level field that isn’t terribly demanding in terms of skill. On top of this, some may perceive the day-to-day experience of a retail position as fairly unexciting. These challenges can make it tough to both find and attract the right talent, but they are by no means unconquerable.

A Key Advantage

So, as a recruiter, how do you contend with this often broad talent pool while factoring the image dynamics of the industry? Fortunately, retail has the advantage of being linked with a strong culture of branding and online presence. Your company no doubt works hard to build and maintain a powerful identity for itself to appeal to its client base, so why not use this as a conduit to access the talent you need? Utilize social media, content, and your company’s site to connect with and appeal to potential hires. It’s more important than ever to codify an attractive employer brand that complements the brand of your company as a retailer.

The Issue of Retention

No one would be in the business of recruitment if they weren’t up to a challenge. Another obstacle you may be facing as a hiring manager in retail is the issue of retention. Retail sales has a particularly high turnover rate as an industry. Dealing with this can involve many things, whether it’s increasing transparency and being open to feedback from your existing team or making more competitive offers. The companies that thrive the most in this regard are the ones that find ways not only to make their employer brand appealing from the outside, but to build an internal culture and environment that is genuinely fulfilling and rewarding for its employees.

Whether you run a retail business or you operate in another sector of the Canadian economy, you can be assured that the versatility of our recruitment expertise is hard to beat. Get in touch with the Summit Search Group office in your city to start bringing in the best talent today!