Animal and Human Nutrition & Health

Since 2010, Hamden Executive Search has partnered with organisations across the global Animal and Human Nutrition & Health industries.

In Animal Nutrition & Health, the market is transforming as producers reduce antibiotic use and adopt natural feed additives across livestock, aquaculture and pet food, a sector forecast to exceed USD 100 billion by 2035. Rapid advances in genetics and breeding are further improving animal health, productivity and sustainability.

In Human Nutrition & Health, a market exceeding USD 500 billion globally, growth is driven by health and wellness demand, functional ingredients, dietary supplements and the accelerating adoption of alternative proteins.

Hamden connects industry leaders who drive innovation, sustainability and commercial success across these evolving markets.

Animal Nutrition & Health

For over 15 years, Hamden has been a trusted partner for some of the most niche and challenging searches worldwide.

Strengthened in 2025 by the addition of three new Managing Partners with deep industry expertise, we excel at accessing hard-to-reach talent and delivering senior appointments across EMEA, the Americas and APAC.

Through our 4-week Direct Full-Market Search, we help clients secure the leadership required to drive growth, innovation and lasting impact.

We build long-term partnerships with organisations of all sizes, supporting across commercial, technical, R&D, regulatory, quality and operational functions. Our work spans the full Animal Nutrition & Health value chain, from feed additives and premixes to vaccines, diagnostics, antibiotics, and genetics and breeding, across all species.

Human Nutrition & Health

Our expertise spans consumer health, dietary supplements, speciality food and beverage ingredients, flavours and fragrances, plant-based and alternative proteins, and specialised nutrition.

This breadth allows us to understand the technical, regulatory and commercial forces shaping the industry, as well as the leadership capabilities needed to succeed in a fast-evolving, health-driven global market.

We work with both private equity–backed growth businesses and established industry leaders, delivering senior appointments across C-suite, commercial, operational, R&D and regulatory functions. With deep industry insight and a global network, particularly strong in North America, Europe and APAC, we provide strategic guidance and talent solutions to organisations advancing human nutrition, health and sustainable wellbeing.

As a consequence, more and more companies are enlisting search services to facilitate their growth plans across the Globe. Our clients have capitalised on our ever-expanding networks and we have assisted them in increasing their market share with a large focus on key growth territories. With an extensive network, Hamden can offer access to specialist candidates that can make a direct and lasting impact in this ever-growing industry. We have access to top talent across the whole food and farming value chain, from farmer inputs across crops and livestock, through to commodities, processing, ingredients and additives for the food and beverages on our shelves.

Without the right people, our clients would not be able to develop and promote innovative products for emerging countries and niche markets to meet the expectations of their customers.

The most sought after talent in this industry is not actively looking for new challenges. We use our 6 Stage Process and our Direct Search methodology, to confidentially promote the opportunity and attract these valuable individuals. This identification, approach and assessment offers our clients the opportunity to select from a shortlist comprised of only top performers.

In my Global Management position within Alltech’s Animal Nutrition business a particular challenge was seeking a Regulatory Affairs Manager to look after our product registration and regulatory environment in India and the surrounding countries. Hamden team found us the right candidate, one who can meet the challenges of a changing regulatory and business environment in the territory.

Director Regulatory Affairs EMEA

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The professional work of Hamden as well as their deep overview of the market with a global network was providing us a number of potential candidates which were fitting to our requirements. Even for highly skilled and specialized position Hamden could always provide us with a list of candidates from whom we could select the best fitting one.

Director Operations & Finance

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In 2019, Alltech Animal Nutrition in Brazil retained the services of Hamden for an important search.
We found them to be extremely valuable in our search for a Quality Manager LATAM and they were able to deliver a shortlist of high calibre candidates, directly in the target market and within the promised timeframes.
Their knowledge of complex and technical roles in the Animal Nutrition market has allowed us access some of the top candidates in this area, that we would not have been able to contact without their help.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Hamden Executive Search and their retained service.

Alltech do Brasi
HR Director – Latin America

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