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About our client

Our client is one of Germany’s leading multi-brand groups in fashion, lifestyle, and retail. With a diversified portfolio of own brands, private-label businesses, and international sourcing operations, the group combines decades of industry experience with a strong entrepreneurial heritage.

As part of a strategic transformation program, the holding is repositioning its retail and private-label entities to secure sustainable growth and competitiveness in an evolving market environment. The CEO will take active leadership of the group’s retail subsidiaries – one a major supplier to leading European retailers and discounters, the other specialized in sports and lifestyle apparel – while also contributing to the broader portfolio development within the holding structure. The role is well connected to Bremen and based around Osnabrueck, Germany.

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What the job involves

• Driving the further development of the group strategy with emphasis on brand positioning, digital transformation, and sustainable profitability
• Leadership and integration of the management teams of the subsidiaries
• Active CEO role for one or more subsidiaries based in the greater Oldenburg area
• Steering of the turnaround and transformation program (retail brands)
• Responsibility for ESG and compliance (LkSG/CSRD) as well as for maintaining a trust-based collaboration with the advisory board and employee representatives
• Further development of governance, culture, and sustainability in line with the values of the family-owned business

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Who we are looking for

• Proven track record of overall leadership responsibility (CEO / Business Unit Head / Executive Board) in the consumer goods, fashion, or lifestyle sector
• Experience with multi-brand portfolios, turnaround, and repositioning projects
• Combination of strategic thinker and hands-on leader with strong results orientation
• Experience in socially responsible transformation and in reputation and stakeholder communication within a family-owned business
• Strong interpersonal skills, integrity, and cultural sensitivity suited to a long-term–oriented family enterprise
• Fluent in German and English