CPG Recruiter · Denver, Recruiting Nationwide
High Altitude Partners is a specialized CPG recruiter and retained executive search firm. We place the leaders who scale consumer brands — from mid-management to the C-suite — with a real-time client portal, written candidate evaluations, and a 90-day guarantee on every search.
Hiring a senior leader in consumer packaged goods is one of the most consequential — and most expensive to get wrong — decisions a growing brand makes. A good CPG recruiter does far more than forward résumés. We map the market for the exact role, approach the operators who are performing well and not looking, run a structured evaluation of each finalist, and stay accountable for the hire long after the offer is signed.
We recruit exclusively inside consumer packaged goods, which means we speak your language from the first conversation. Retail and broker channels, co-manufacturing, trade spend and velocity, ACV and distribution, margin and cost per case — these aren't terms we had to look up. That category fluency is what separates a specialized CPG recruiter from a generalist who treats your VP of Sales search like any other sales role.
Why Specialized
In CPG, the leader you want is usually employed, performing, and not browsing job boards. They have to be approached directly — which is exactly what retained, specialized recruiting is built to do.
We can tell a real operator from an impressive résumé because we know what good looks like at your stage — $5M scrappy build vs. a $300M system someone else created.
Sixteen years of relationships across food, beverage, supplement, and household brands means we reach the right people quickly, not whoever answers a posting.
Roles We Recruit
If it's a critical hire inside a consumer brand, we've probably recruited for it. A few of the roles we place across the category:
See the full picture of the F&B and CPG roles we place, or read how our search process works.
How It Works
A working session where we define the role, the level, the compensation range, and what success looks like in the first 30, 60, and 90 days.
Your client portal goes live immediately. Targeted outreach to passive candidates begins within days — and you watch it happen in real time.
We go directly to the operators who aren't on job boards, using a network built over sixteen years in the category.
Three to five finalists, each with a written two-to-four page evaluation and a clear recommendation. No résumé dumps.
We support the offer, help manage the transition, and back every placement with a 90-day guarantee.
Common Questions
We find, vet, and place leaders for consumer packaged goods companies through retained executive search — mapping the market, approaching passive candidates, running structured evaluations, and standing behind every hire with a 90-day guarantee.
A generalist leans on whoever is actively job hunting. A specialized CPG recruiter knows retail and broker channels, co-manufacturing, trade spend, and margin cold — and carries a live network of operators who are performing well and not looking.
We recruit across the broader consumer packaged goods category — food, beverage, snack, supplement, performance nutrition, personal care, and household products. Food and beverage is where most placements land, but CPG as a whole is our domain.
Most searches produce a shortlist of three to five finalists within four to six weeks, with the full search typically running six to ten weeks. Your portal gives you real-time visibility the whole way.
We're based in Denver, Colorado, and recruit nationwide — most placements are remote or hybrid, though we also fill on-site operations and plant leadership roles.
Tell us about the seat. We'll show you how we'd run the search.