Find Retail Talent That Shapes Your Future
Millman Search is a premier retail and luxury retail recruitment agency trusted to deliver visionary leaders through industry expertise and personalized service. For 40 years, we’ve helped retailers elevate their brands and accelerate growth with exceptional leadership matches.
Find Retail Talent That Shapes Your Future
Millman Search is a premier retail and luxury retail recruitment agency trusted to deliver visionary leaders through industry expertise and personalized service. For 40 years, we’ve helped retailers elevate their brands and accelerate growth with exceptional leadership matches.
Setting New Standards in Executive Recruitment
Our proven approach pairs deep expertise with unwavering integrity, setting industry standards for excellence in executive retail recruitment.
years in business
successful placements
client loyalty
years in business
successful placements
client loyalty
Retail Recruitment Reimagined: Strategic Challenges and Solutions
The competitive world of retail and luxury retail demands visionary leaders who can navigate shifting consumer preferences, disruptive change, and evolving market dynamics. For retailers, hiring exceptional leadership talent comes with significant challenges.
The Complexity of Retail Recruitment
Today’s retailers face mounting pressure and increasing competition to fill critical leadership positions while managing the substantial costs of vacant roles. Extended vacancies don’t just impact revenue—they strain existing teams, delay strategic initiatives, and cause repercussions throughout the organization.
Adding to this complexity, many retailers lack real-time market intelligence about compensation trends and available talent pools in their target markets.
Why Partner With Retail Recruiters
Expert retail recruitment partners transform these hiring challenges into opportunities. The right retail placement agency brings deep industry knowledge, established networks, and refined processes that accelerate hiring while elevating quality.
This expertise becomes particularly crucial in luxury retail, where discerning brands require leaders who understand both operational excellence and the art of premium customer experiences.
The Millman Search Advantage
For 40 years, we’ve helped retailers navigate these complexities with a proven signature approach that delivers results:
Market Intelligence: Our extensive insight into retail and executive search provides live intelligence about compensation trends, competitor moves, and candidate pools.
Access to Top Talent: We maintain relationships with high-performing retail leaders, including those not actively seeking new roles.
Accelerated Hiring: Our refined Millman Search method eliminates idle waiting, improves candidate experience, and shortens time-to-hire.
Risk Reduction: We guarantee regulatory compliance and proper vetting, ensuring your peace of mind.
Strategic Partnership: Retail recruitment isn’t just job filling to us—it’s building a leadership team that drives our clients’ long-term success.
A Refined Approach to Retail Recruitment
Retail executive search requires extensive industry connections—but it excels when combined with a refined, systematic approach. Our proven Millman Search Method pairs decades of retail recruitment success with rigorous evaluation processes, ensuring we secure exemplary leadership talent for every organization we serve.
In-depth Initial Consultation
First, we listen. We learn all we can about your company’s brand, history, values, mission, culture and needs. From skills to mindsets, we capture the information we need to develop a customized leadership search strategy for your business.
Strategic Talent Sourcing
Using our industry expertise, extensive database of over 100,000 candidates, and active network of retail industry partners, we map the market and build a comprehensive list of qualified talent, including passive candidates.
Thorough Screening
Our experts conduct an efficient yet exhaustive evaluation and screening to refine a curated shortlist of the top interested candidates. You will only meet the most qualified leaders.
Detailed Candidate Presentation
We provide a comprehensive profile of each shortlisted candidate, including key insights and information gathered during our research and interviews.
Meticulous Verification
We conduct thorough reference checks for final candidates through a structured, consistent process while maintaining clear communication throughout.
Ongoing Client Partnership
We maintain close communication at every state, serving as a trusted liaison between you and candidates, negotiating everything from compensation to relocation.
Interview Coordination
We manage the interview process, ensure all parties are well prepared, and maintain smooth scheduling.
Transition Management
From offer negotiation to onboarding and beyond, we guide you and your new hire through every step, ensuring a seamless transition.
Areas of Expertise in Retail & Luxury Retail
Since 1982, we’ve partnered with numerous companies to launch and maintain their presence across retail segments like:
Retail
Mutli-Family
Mixed-Use
Industrial
Office
Residential
Student Housing
Senior Living
Shopping Centers
Tenant Coordination
Leasing
Brokerage
General Merchant Retailers
Department Stores
Discount Stores
Specialty Retailers
Home Improvement & Furnishings
Grocery & Food Retailers
Specialty Food Stores
Convenience Stores
Health & Personal Care Retailers
Beauty & Cosmetics
Online Retailers (Ecommerce)
Luxury Retailers
General Merchant Retailers
Department Stores
Discount Stores
Speciality Retailers
Home Improvement & Furnishings
Grocery & Food Retailers
Specialty Food Stores
Convenience Stores
Health & Personal Care Retailers
Beauty & Cosmetics
Online Retailers (Ecommerce)
Luxury Retailers
General Merchant Retailers
Department Stores
Discount Stores
Specialty Retailers
Home Improvement & Furnishings
Grocery & Food Retailers
Specialty Food Stores
Convenience Stores
Health & Personal Care Retailers
Beauty & Cosmetics
Online Retailers (Ecommerce)
Luxury Retailers
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