On-Demand Talent for Consumer Markets
Access highly skilled talent to drive growth and strategic initiatives amid rapidly changing consumer behavior.
On-demand subject matter experts, consultants, project managers, and interim leaders deliver in-demand skills and capacity to help capture consumers’ mind and wallet share, deliver exceptional experiences, improve sustainability, optimize supply chains and planning, use data wisely, and capitalize on growth opportunities.
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As the global market leader in high-end on-demand talent, Business Talent Group (BTG) a subsidiary of Heidrick & Struggles, connects independent management consultants, subject matter experts, project managers, and executives with industry expertise. BTG provides just the right on-demand talent needed: remote or on-site, part-time or full-time, individuals or teams, all around the world.
Capabilities
Strategy and Innovation
- Growth Strategy
- Corporate and Brand Strategy
- Product Strategy and Go-to-Market
- International Strategy
- Opportunity and Market Assessment
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy and Implementation
Ecommerce and Digital
- Digital and Mobile Experiences
- Digital Marketing
- Technology Implementation
- End-to-End Fulfillment
- Data Management and Analytics
- AI and Machine Learning
Operations and Supply Chain
- Process Optimization and Transformation
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Inventory Management
- Project Management
Organizations and People
- Interim Leaders (Director – C-Suite)
- Change Management
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)
- Organizational Design
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Serving 100+ F1000 companies in consumer markets
91% of clients explore a new need within 12 months
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Consumer Markets Case Studies
Strategizing a Five-Year Growth Plan in Beauty
A PE-backed French perfume brand sought a tenured strategy lead to not only support internal teams but also to provide strategic analyses that articulate and bolster a five-year North American plan.
BTG connected the client with a former senior advisor at Bain and general manager at L’Oreal, Hatch Beauty, and Kate Somerville, who had extensive experience developing brand strategies and international growth plans. The talent assessed the current state of the business, refined brand positioning for a more modernized approach, scoped future opportunities for the brand, and enhanced brand depth and category awareness.
Interim Data Science Strategist for a Special Project
A multi-billion-dollar grocer was struggling to fill a full-time Chief Data Officer role (a new position for the company), and this was slowing down its ability to optimize its ecommerce fulfillment network—a critical project.
BTG provided a stop-gap solution—a former Apple data science manager and Big 3 strategy consultant with deep experience in value creation and digital transformation using data analytics, visualization, and governance. He further defined the functional strategy, which included developing a governance structure and analytical framework to ensure the data platform served the current and future needs of all users. With the project back in motion, the executive team had more bandwidth to address long-term hiring needs.
Developing an Innovation Plan for a Fast-Growing Mattress Company
A leading mattress company was seeking to increase both the scale and sustainability of its innovation initiatives. The CEO wanted to identify current impediments to innovation, prioritize specific focus areas, and design an overarching framework for innovation.
BTG provided a specialist in new markets with deep experience finding whitespace opportunities, creating market entry and market adjacency strategies, and building corporate innovation units. Over the course of three months, he was able to work collaboratively to audit capabilities and analyze gaps, prioritize initiatives, define new organizational units, establish metrics, provide an overarching change management plan, and, finally, sequence the rollout.
S&OP Transformation
An F500 CPG company with 30+ global brands was ready for a substantial redesign of its S&OP process. The CFO and the head of supply chain identified the major challenges: rationalizing the number and type of demand forecasts and creating a tighter link to supply chain planning. But how to address those and achieve buy-in across the company?
BTG delivered a two-person team to work with senior leaders—a former Booz Principal and supply chain practice leader paired with an operations improvement consultant. They reviewed reports and practices, introduced new KPI charts, and redesigned the demand consensus process before developing the high-level design for the new S&OP process. For implementation, BTG augmented the team with project management support.
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Audrey Klomparens
Director, Consumer Markets
New York City
616-214-1080
Audrey Klomparens is a Director of On-Demand Talent based in Heidrick & Struggles’ New York office and the leader of the Consumer Markets Practice. Audrey specializes in serving consumer clients within Fortune 1000 companies as well as those financially sponsored by leading private equity firms and owner-founder-led companies. She has a deep and relevant understanding of the challenges facing consumer organizations, and partners closely with her clients to educate and identify opportunities to leverage on-demand talent.