marketing recruitment agency and headhunters for retail
your marketing profiles for a retailer or a distributor, hired by headhunters who know commerce media.
We hand your role to the headhunter with the most marketing hires at retailers, wholesalers and distribution brands: trade marketing, loyalty, retail media.
- no setup fees, pay on hire
- guaranteed replacement
they hire their marketing profiles with muzzo
how do you hire a marketing profile for a retailer or a distributor?
Trade marketing, customer marketing or retail media: at a retailer or a distributor, these profiles drive loyalty and the store's advertising space. Muzzo gives your role to the headhunters with the most hires in this field. Fee of 5 to 30%, paid on hire. Leaves within 3 months: we restart the search free.
how it works
you only pay if you hire
01
you describe the role
Using the form above: the role, your retailer, your store network. The rest is scoped in your first conversation with the Muzzo team.
02
the right headhunters get started
Those who have already hired for this role at a retailer or a distributor.
03
you meet the profiles
Approached and screened by the headhunter. You choose who you meet.
04
you hire, then you pay
Not before. If your new hire leaves within 3 months, we restart the search at no cost.
they hired with muzzo
Muzzo's strength is the diversity of its recruiters: there is always someone listening to our needs.
With Muzzo, I get the reactivity of a marketplace and the quality of a search firm.
let's talk about your role
Antoine and the Muzzo team help you scope your role and choose the right headhunters. Describe your role in the form: we'll call you back to discuss it.
Antoine GigomasCEO and co-founder of Muzzo
one last question?
You set the fee for each role, between 5 and 30%, and you only pay it on hire. No deposit, no fixed fees. A junior marketing project manager and a head of marketing at a national retailer do not call for the same search effort: the fee follows that difference.
You get a double guarantee. If your new hire leaves within 3 months, for example because the retail media scope or the loyalty programme to run were not what was planned, we restart the search at no cost. If no replacement is found within 4 months, we refund 50% of the fees. On average, 94% of Muzzo hires are still in post after 3 months.
our retail marketing headhunters are ready to start
A hire signed in under 26 days. You only pay when you hire.
the reality
a retailer's marketing team now also runs its own advertising space
the store has become a media channel
With a €1.46bn commerce media market in France in 2025, a retailer now sells advertising to its suppliers on its site and in its aisles. The headhunter checks the profile has already managed this kind of space, not just a classic campaign.
retention matters as much as attraction
Loyalty cards, CRM, in-store activations: a retailer's trade marketing is judged on retaining an existing customer, a different lever from pure acquisition.
a retail marketer isn't a brand marketer
They negotiate with sales teams, suppliers and sometimes franchisees, not just a creative agency. At Muzzo, each role goes to the headhunter who knows this retail-based job.
the roles
the marketing profiles our headhunters go after for a retailer or a distributor
From trade marketing to retail media, each role goes to a headhunter who knows the retail job.
trade marketing manager
They build commercial operations and in-store activations with suppliers, working with the buying and sales teams.
customer marketing and loyalty manager
They run a retailer's loyalty programme and customer base, from the card to the CRM.
retail media manager
They sell and run the advertising space on a retailer's site and stores for partner brands.
marketing project manager and category marketing
They drive the promotion of a product category, from the shelf to digital, working with the buying category manager.
head of marketing
They steer the marketing strategy of a retailer or a wholesaler, balancing loyalty, acquisition and retail media.
the method
a headhunter who knows retail marketing
A retailer's marketing doesn't run on the same levers or with the same stakeholders as brand marketing. The method starts from the channel and the type of retailer.
the brief starts from the channel and the format
Store, site, retail media, loyalty programme: the channel matters more than the job title for screening the right profile.
a headhunter who specialises in retail marketing
Among more than 2,500 selected headhunters, your role goes to those with the most hires in this field in retail.
operations checked, not generic portfolios
The headhunter checks the commercial operations or the retail media space actually run by the profile, not just their agency experience.
the figures
marketing hiring in retail in figures
€52k
median gross annual pay for managerial marketing project roles in general and specialist retail (1st decile €40k, 9th decile €72k)1
€54k
median pay for these same managers in business-to-business trade, wholesale activity with other companies (1st decile €37k, 9th decile €72k)1
€1.46bn
commerce media market in France in 2025 (advertising on retailers' sites and apps), up 9.2% year on year2
hiring a marketing profile for a retailer or a distributor
A retailer's marketing is no longer just in-store commercial operations: with the rise of retail media, part of the job is now selling and running advertising space for suppliers.
A marketing recruitment agency specialising in retail knows these profiles: it can tell a trade marketing role built to negotiate with suppliers apart from a loyalty marketing role built on customer data, and approaches candidates already in post at a competing retailer.
is retail media transforming retailers' marketing teams?
According to the Fevad, the commerce media market reached €1.46bn in France in 2025, up 9.2% year on year, driven by more than 40 retail media networks now active in the country.
This growth is pushing retailers to hire profiles able to run this advertising space alongside traditional marketing, a skill still rare on the market a few years ago.
The trade marketing manager builds commercial operations and activations with suppliers, working closely with the buying team. The customer marketing manager, meanwhile, runs the loyalty programme and the customer database, a job geared towards retention.
The retail media manager sells and runs the advertising space on the site and in stores for partner brands, a role still recent but already growing fast. These three profiles are neither found in the same networks nor judged on the same criteria.
your questions about marketing recruitment in retail
According to Apec, managerial marketing project staff employed in general and specialist retail earn a median €52k gross a year, and €54k in business-to-business trade, the wholesale activity (2025 edition).
Yes. According to the Fevad, the commerce media market reached €1.46bn in France in 2025, up 9.2% year on year. Retailers are now hiring profiles able to sell and run this advertising space, a skill absent from marketing job descriptions a few years ago.
Our marketing page covers every sector. This page is for marketing profiles at a retailer or a distributor: trade marketing, loyalty, retail media.
Our retail page covers every job at a retailer: in-store sales, buying, supply chain. This page is for marketing profiles only.
by Antoine Gigomas, CEO and co-founder of Muzzo ·
