Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies are characterised by their practice of selling large quantities of lower-cost products, including food & drink, tobacco, toiletries, cleaning products and other household goods. They have manufacturing facilities as well as R&D, marketing and distribution divisions across the Asia Pacific region.

FMCG companies tend to be very good at retaining HR talent. They are able to use their strong household brand images to recruit high potential graduates straight from the region’s universities, and invest heavily in developing their HR management careers, often including international assignments and other job rotation programmes. You can expect a high level of sophistication of HR and Organisational Development practices in these organisations, with a strong buy-in from management.

Top-tier FMCG companies rarely look to the outside market to fill senior HR roles, as they would rather transplant someone from elsewhere in the worldwide organisation. Second tier and up-and-coming FMCG companies, however, are less reliant on their internal pipelines of talent, and when HR roles become open in these companies they can often be fiercely contested.

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