Management & Leadership

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Executives who help shape strategy and make delivery effective

Leadership positions below C-level are decisive for a company’s operational strength. This is where strategies are sharpened, translated into concrete measures and made effective in day-to-day business.

We identify executives who convince professionally, take on responsibility and lead teams effectively. Our assessment is based on leadership experience of our own: we know what it means to give teams orientation through growth, change and demanding market phases.

We fill leadership roles with responsibility for teams, functions and operational impact – across all sectors and functions.

Specific mandates

Starting point:
Production structures that have grown organically are reaching their limits. Control, planning and documentation still rely heavily on Excel, experiential knowledge and established routines among long-serving staff. At the same time, that knowledge has to be secured, transferred and moved into scalable processes.

Our approach:
We fill production leadership roles that combine operational management with further development. The search is for people who take an established workforce with them, make experiential knowledge usable in structured form and implement digitalisation projects pragmatically – documented, scalable and ready for the next phase of development.

Starting point:
An international group is realising a pioneering greenfield project in the billions. A novel plant for sustainable chemistry is being built in Germany – technologically demanding, regulatorily complex and of high strategic importance.

Our approach:
We fill the plant management role with people who can lead major projects of this scale and move them into stable operational structures. What counts is experience in engineering, permitting procedures, plant construction, HSE, organisation and stakeholder management.

The search is for executives who combine technical depth, resilience and persuasive power – and who make the vision of sustainable production effective in practice.

Starting point:
The company is no longer growing at its previous pace. Several initiatives in digitalisation, ESG, organisation and processes are running in parallel, but priorities, responsibilities and measurable results are not anchored clearly enough.

Our approach:
We fill transformation leadership roles with people who structure complex agendas and bring them effectively into the organisation. The search is for people with leadership strength, strategic clarity and discipline in delivery.

They create orientation, set priorities, connect employees and stakeholders – and ensure that change initiatives produce concrete results.

Starting point:
A strong product meets new growth opportunities. Internationalisation, new business areas or additional customer segments are on the agenda – but market potential has to translate into a solid pipeline and profitable growth.

Our approach:
We find growth leaders with entrepreneurial substance, market understanding and B2B experience. The search is for people who understand products that require explanation, open up new markets systematically and bring sales, product, engineering and executive management together effectively.

They build business areas not just on paper, but create customer relationships, structures and results that scale.

 

What we look for in leadership

We look at more than qualification and CV. What matters is whether a person fits the organisational culture, the company’s current phase and the next development task — and whether they can build on what has already been created.

That assessment requires leadership experience of one’s own, sector understanding and a sure instinct for fit. That is exactly what we bring.

  • Sales & business development: sales management, key account management, international sales, business development, market development, growth leadership
  • Operations & production: plant management, production management, operations management, logistics management, lean management, continuous improvement
  • Engineering & technology: technical management, head of development, head of design engineering, project management, head of quality, engineering management, R&D leadership
  • Procurement & supply chain: head of procurement, head of strategic sourcing, head of supply chain, supplier management, logistics management
  • Finance & controlling: head of finance, commercial management, head of controlling, head of accounting, head of bookkeeping
  • HR, organisation & transformation: head of HR, people & culture, organisational development, change management, head of transformation
  • IT, digitalisation & technology: head of IT, head of digitalisation, head of data, head of software, SaaS leadership, head of cyber security

Our sector expertise

We know the demands placed on specialists and executives in the sectors we work in – from our own experience and from hundreds of appointment mandates.

Construction & Building Services

Construction, building materials, MEP / building services engineering, building technology, energy and HVAC engineering

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Engineering & Mechanical Engineering

Engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial plant construction, automotive, commercial vehicles, supplier industry, marine and naval engineering, drive technology, power engineering

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Process & Basic Materials Industries

Chemicals, basic materials, process industries, paper and packaging, environmental and recycling industries, processing of raw materials, minerals, stone, clay and ceramics

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Technology & Digitalisation

IT, software and systems integration, data centres, hosting and co-location, telecommunications, SaaS platforms, sensor technology, instrumentation and control, digital infrastructure

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Professional Services & Public Sector

Strategy and technology consulting, auditing, finance, insurance, professional services, public-sector organisations, associations, chambers and institutions

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Life Science & Pharma

Pharmaceuticals, medical technology, MedTech, biotechnology, diagnostics, laboratory services, nutraceuticals, cosmetics and nutrition

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Let’s talk about your next leadership appointment.

We identify people who convince professionally, take on responsibility and fit the culture, the situation and the next phase of development of your company.

Speak directly with Malte Oltmanns.

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