Your search has stalled
You are applying, networking, or interviewing, but the effort is not creating enough useful traction.
Talk with PollyCustomized 12-week coaching for experienced CPG leaders
Make your next career move a deliberate choice— not a reaction to the market.
Whether you are searching, positioning for promotion, testing a pivot, considering consulting, or deciding what you want next, we will turn your experience into a clear direction, a credible market story, and a practical plan for moving forward.
Schedule a Career Strategy Conversation
FORMATOne-to-one
DURATION12 weeks
CADENCEWeekly sessions
SUPPORTBetween sessions + First 90 Days
Designed for experienced CPG professionals—typically Director through executive level—navigating a search, promotion, pivot, consulting decision, or career transition.
Who this is for
You do not need more generic job-search advice. You need a strategy for your career moment.
The work begins with the outcome you want—not a predetermined checklist. Coaching adapts to the real decisions, opportunities, and feedback in front of you.
You are choosing what comes next
You are weighing a new role, promotion, pivot, consulting path, or a larger career change.
Your value is getting lost
Your experience is broad, but the market is struggling to understand where it fits best and why it matters now.
The opportunity is getting real
You want strategic support for interviews, case studies, negotiation, decisions, or the First 90 Days.
The 12-week journey
A focused process that adapts to the opportunity in front of you.
Orient
Clarify the career situation, the outcome you want, and the priorities that will shape the work.Clarify
Define the lane, value, market story, and criteria for the right opportunity.Create Demand
Strengthen materials, relationships, outreach, and the conversations around your search.Convert and Transition
Navigate interviews, negotiation, decisions, and preparation for the First 90 Days.A real search is rarely linear. When an interview, decision, or offer changes the priority, the coaching changes with it.
What changes—and what we work on
Leave with more than polished materials.
Build a clear direction, a credible market story, stronger conversations, and the practical skills to navigate the full transition.
Strategy and positioning
Target roles, career direction, personal brand, value proposition, and search plan.
Résumé and LinkedIn
Clear, aligned materials that make your experience easier to understand and act on.
Networking
Relevant conversations, outreach, introductions, follow-up, and a repeatable relationship-building rhythm.
Interviewing and negotiation
Business-focused interview stories, case preparation, decision strategy, and offer negotiation.
Between-session support
Strategic support when a real conversation, interview, decision, or offer cannot wait until the next session.
Course and First 90 Days resources
Practical tools that support the search and help you enter the new role with clarity.
Why CPG specialization matters
Spend less time explaining the industry—and more time solving the career decision.
Polly understands the pace, language, customers, functions, and matrixed realities of a CPG career because she has led inside them. Your experience is considered in the context of the business—not translated through generic career advice.
Business-minded coaching for experienced CPG leaders who want better decisions, stronger positioning, and meaningful results—not simply more job-search activity.
Former senior CPG executiveCareer strategy grounded in business outcomesCPG relationships and market perspectivePractical support through the full transition
What this work can make possible
Different career moves. Clearer choices.
From a long search to competing offers
After an extended search, this leader clarified how to communicate the scope of their brand experience, strengthened the relationships around the search, and returned to the marketing work they wanted—with more than one offer to consider.
VP-level role · Competing offersRead the full story →A category pivot that worked within real constraints
This employed leader wanted to move into a new CPG category without relocating. They identified the strengths that traveled, built relevant relationships outside an established network, and landed a role in the category they were targeting.
New category · Right-fit roleRead the full story →From a role elimination to a seat built around clear value
Following a role elimination, this leader steadied the emotional rhythm of the search, clarified where their commercial strengths fit, and built relationships consistently. They landed a newly created role focused on growth and commercial strategy.
Newly created role · First 90 Days supportRead the full story →How we begin
A working conversation before a coaching decision.
Talk through your career move
We will discuss what is happening, what you want, and where the search or career decision feels stuck.
Clarify the coaching focus
If the engagement is a strong fit, Polly will recommend the priorities, structure, and expected outcomes.
Decide with the full picture
The investment is shared during the exploratory process, along with space to decide whether the partnership is right for you.
“Polly brought clarity, objectivity, and strategic insight to my job search while leveraging her CPG network to make meaningful connections.”
— CPG Commercial Leader
Common questions
What should you know before we talk?
What is the time commitment?
The engagement lasts 12 weeks and includes weekly one-to-one coaching. The work between sessions is focused on the actions most relevant to your current search or transition.
Is this only for an active job search?
No. Coaching can support career exploration, a category or functional pivot, internal advancement, interview preparation, negotiation, and the transition into a new role. Many clients begin while they are still employed and want to make a thoughtful move without creating unnecessary urgency.
Will we work on my résumé and LinkedIn profile?
Yes. We will make sure your résumé, LinkedIn profile, networking language, and interview stories communicate one clear and relevant value proposition.
How is this different from working with a recruiter or résumé writer?
A recruiter is hired to fill a company's opening, and a résumé writer focuses primarily on one document. Coaching starts with your career goals and connects your strategy, positioning, relationships, interviews, negotiation, and decisions across the full transition.
What happens on the exploratory call?
We will talk through your current situation, the outcome you want, and what appears to be creating friction. If coaching is a strong fit, Polly will explain the recommended focus, complete engagement details, and investment.
A useful first conversation—before any coaching decision
Find out what is actually keeping the next move from gaining traction.
We will look at your current situation, the outcome you want, and the point where clarity or conversion is breaking down. If the 12-week engagement is a strong fit, Polly will explain the recommended focus, complete structure, and investment. If it is not, you will still leave with a clearer view of the next decision.
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