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Ginkgo Search Partners

Ginkgo Search Partners is an international boutique executive search firm focused on placing first and second line management in China for multinational corporations and globally active mid-sized companies. Executive search is its core competency, delivered by a team of seasoned consultants with deep China experience and a proven direct approach to engage passive leadership talent. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Munich, the firm combines on-the-ground market access with bilingual German and Chinese consulting expertise, ensuring culturally attuned advisory support and a precise understanding of client needs across both headquarters and local entities. Ginkgo Search Partners structures delivery through a key account model so that each client works with a dedicated consultant who manages only a limited number of concurrent mandates, enabling quality, speed, and transparency throughout a retained search process. Industry practices cover automotive, broader industrial and manufacturing, transportation and logistics, life sciences including chemical and pharmaceutical, consumer goods, technology and communications, and professional services. The firm complements search with leadership assessment and leadership development to evaluate competencies, reduce hiring risk, and accelerate onboarding and long term performance. Clients benefit from an extensive network of Chinese and international executives, systematic research, and discreet direct sourcing that unlocks hard to reach candidates. The firm highlights strong outcomes including a 95 percent placement rate, 80 percent repeat business, and a six month guarantee, reflecting a commitment to accountability and long term partnerships. Whether building a local leadership bench, strengthening succession pipelines, or hiring country managers and functional heads, Ginkgo Search Partners provides targeted, practice led solutions tailored to the realities of the China market and the expectations of global stakeholders.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWarehousingDistributionPublic Transit

HQGermany, Germany

Headgate

Headgate is a German executive search firm specializing in leadership appointments for family owned companies and hidden champions. From its base in Altenstadt, the team acts as a brand ambassador for mid sized groups and family controlled corporations when leadership becomes the decisive success factor and standard recruiting no longer suffices. With more than 2,500 search projects across automotive, construction, FMCG and retail, industrial manufacturing, logistics, IT, and medical technology, Headgate combines deep sector expertise with rigorous assessment and a candidate experience that emphasizes speed, discretion, and cultural fit. The firm delivers C level and senior management hires through a proven search methodology that includes in depth diagnostics, confidential direct approaches, modern marketing assets such as landing pages and company videos, and a tightly managed process designed to secure acceptance from scarce leaders. Clients benefit from a distinctive 24 month guarantee on executive placements and from the option of fully confidential or undercover mandates when situations are sensitive. Focusing on businesses with 1,000 or more employees, Headgate serves family enterprises, corporate groups, and hidden champions that value long term impact over short term fixes. The firm has been recognized repeatedly by Wirtschaftswoche as Best Personnel Consultancy from 2020 through 2024 and named among the top consultancies by Handelsblatt, reflecting strong client and candidate advocacy, high response rates, and excellent reviews on Kununu. Values such as integrity, confidentiality, mutual respect, innovation, and openness to new paths guide every engagement, while use of advanced technology helps expand reach without compromising quality. Headgate limits client conflicts by partnering with a maximum of two companies per sub sector to keep candidate markets wide open. The consultants act as advisors on equal footing, not resume forwarders, and they maintain transparent communication with hiring stakeholders and candidates at every step. Their executive search capability is complemented by discreet market mapping, succession planning input, and employer branding support that helps family companies tell their story credibly to attract modern leaders who still respect tradition. The team engages both visible and passive talent, leveraging targeted outreach and data driven research while protecting confidentiality throughout. Timelines are engineered for speed, often concluding in weeks from project start to signed contract, without sacrificing due diligence. This disciplined, human centered approach produces stable appointments and long term value creation for owners and leadership teams.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQAltenstadt, Germany

Herbold Fischer Associates

Herbold Fischer Associates is an executive search partner focused on identifying leaders who can shape the future of their clients organizations. The firm combines experience, empathy, and efficiency to deliver high caliber appointments across C level, top and middle management, and supervisory board roles. Their consultants work with internationally active companies across key industries and apply a structured, creative search process that aligns professional credentials with cultural fit. Drawing on long standing networks and market insight, they secure digital minded executives and IT specialists who can drive transformation as well as seasoned functional leaders in operations, finance, commercial, and technology. The team emphasizes rigorous brief taking, targeted research, direct approach, and careful assessment to ensure long term success for both client and candidate. With a track record of successful placements dating back to 2003, the firm supports clients navigating disruption in sectors such as automotive and industrial services, energy, logistics, professional services, private equity, and healthcare. In addition to executive search, Herbold Fischer Associates advises on leadership for digital transformation and on diversity and inclusion to strengthen decision making and organizational resilience. Engagements are delivered with discretion and transparency, and progress is communicated clearly from kick off through onboarding. Clients value the firms ability to present shortlists that balance immediate impact with sustainable leadership potential, and candidates appreciate a respectful, direct, and informed process. Searches are executed locally and internationally, leveraging research capability, market mapping, and confidential referencing, while ensuring full compliance with data protection standards. The firm operates as a trusted advisor, offering candid counsel on role design, compensation, and succession planning, and remains committed to building leadership teams that combine vision with execution to deliver measurable business results over the long term.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseUtilitiesHospital & Health Care (Nursing)Physicians

HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany

Keller Executive Search

Keller Executive Search is a global contingent and retained executive search and leadership advisory firm that helps organizations strengthen their market position through the right people. The firm specializes in identifying, assessing, and appointing CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CHROs, board members, and senior functional leaders, supported by a research-led process, talent mapping, and rigorous evaluation. Keller combines executive headhunting with leadership consulting, offering interim executive solutions, recruitment process outsourcing, succession planning, leadership assessment, coaching, and outplacement, alongside organizational, cultural, business, and workforce transformation services, compensation consulting, and DEI and ESG advisory. With a broad international footprint across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa, Keller delivers local insight with global reach, serving clients from high-growth startups to multinational enterprises. The firm covers a wide industry portfolio including technology (AI, SaaS, software development, semiconductors, telecom, and IT), financial services and investment (banking, insurance, private equity, asset and wealth management, and fintech), engineering and manufacturing (aerospace, automotive, industrial, defense, and process industries), energy and natural resources (oil and gas, cleantech, mining, chemicals, and climate tech), healthcare and life sciences, consumer and retail, real estate and construction, professional and business services, public sector, and nonprofit. Keller fills critical roles across finance and accounting, human resources, legal, marketing, sales, operations, supply chain, IT, cybersecurity, data, and product. Its delivery model emphasizes speed and certainty, often presenting first candidates in 2 to 3 weeks, offering up to 365 day replacement coverage, and providing transparent, metrics driven execution. Reported outcomes include 92 percent of searches ending in a hire, a 94 percent client experience score, 89 percent one year retention, and 73 percent of roles filled in six weeks or less. Through insights, templates, and tools for employers, and career coaching via Keller Pathways, the firm builds enduring partnerships and delivers leaders who drive measurable impact.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAutomotiveAerospaceDefense

HQDubai, Germany

Heidi Steinberger Human Resource Service

Heidi Steinberger Human Resource Service is a Munich based boutique search and career advisory firm founded in 1998 by Heidi Steinberger. For more than two decades the firm has supported mid sized companies, hidden champions and family owned businesses in Germany and internationally with the search and selection of specialists and leaders across the first, second and third management levels. Combining classical direct search with qualitative career consulting, the firm acts as a trusted first ambassador of each client, ensuring a respectful, transparent and discreet candidate experience. Every mandate starts with an in depth briefing and a jointly crafted position profile, continues with the development of target company lists, proactive outreach and confidential first interviews, and progresses with regular reporting and close coordination. Heidi participates in client interviews, moderates the mutual alignment of expectations, gathers references on request, and remains engaged through offer and contract stages up to onboarding and beyond the probation period. With roots in cross industry and function oriented research, assignments span sales, engineering, operations, HR and controlling, without restricting to a single sector; recent mandates include robotics and sensor systems, intralogistics solutions, industrial automation and ERP driven digital transformation consulting. Clients value professionalism, trust, openness, quality and clear communication, while candidates benefit from practical coaching, profiling and outplacement support that enable sound, sustainable career moves. In tight labor markets the firm prioritizes meticulous preparation and high quality, person to person outreach over mass advertising, leveraging market insight and a long standing network to access scarce talent. Whether the objective is to appoint a key executive or secure a hard to find specialist, Heidi Steinberger brings curiosity, persistence and sound judgment to align skills, values and culture, so that placements deliver measurable, long term business impact.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQEurasburg, Germany

HMP Executive Search

HMP Executive Search is a specialist search and leadership onboarding partner focused on placing upper and middle management roles with a strong emphasis on values compatibility and cultural fit. As a business unit of DS Group UG based in Aschaffenburg, Germany, the firm supports both Mittelstand companies and international groups across industry, trade, and services. Its core offering spans direct and executive search built on jointly defined requirement profiles and an analysis of the role context, leveraging deep knowledge of sub labor markets and an extensive network to secure integrative leaders with high professional and social competencies. HMP commits to quality with a guarantee to refill the position and resume the search at no fee if a placement does not prove sustainable. Beyond placement, the firm continues as onboard coaches, guiding young professionals and newly hired leaders through the first 100 days to secure traction and acceptance within the existing corporate culture. Senior coaches and business mentors facilitate structured reflection of critical situations through regular in person sessions and interim calls to reinforce impact. The team also provides HR marketing support, developing job ad concepts aligned to the clients corporate identity, advising on media selection and timing, and, if required, publishing searches discreetly under the HMP name; this service is free of agency fees, with clients paying only publisher insertion costs. HMP extends its leadership development reach with keynotes, board conversations, and curated entrepreneur roundtables limited to small groups, addressing topics such as transformation, succession, and cultural change. Managing partner Kornelia Straub Kuri leads the personnel consulting practice and has advised high potentials since 1998, with long standing experience in coaching and systemic organizational consulting, including initiatives to increase the appointment of female leaders. Senior Advisor Dr. Dietmar Straub contributes over 25 years of executive experience from machinery and automotive supplier industries to mentor first level leaders.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseE-commerceLuxury GoodsManagement Consulting

HR-Expertgroup Executive Search & Consulting

HR-Expertgroup Executive Search & Consulting is a German executive search and recruitment partnership that focuses on bringing extraordinary people together for specialist and leadership roles. The firm positions itself as a team of true industry insiders: every partner has decades of hands-on operational leadership experience as a managing director or senior manager in the very markets they serve, which enables precise understanding of client needs, competitive dynamics, and the capabilities that drive long term value. HR-Expertgroup specializes in the direct search and selection of top performers for specialist and executive appointments, combining rigorous market mapping, targeted outreach, and structured evaluation to align skills and personality with the cultural and strategic requirements of each client. In addition to executive and specialist hiring, the company supports career transitions through newplacement and outplacement programs and operates two curated talent communities, the Manager League and the Specialist League, which make proven leaders and in-demand experts more visible to hiring organizations. The firm works across a wide range of sectors including mechanical and plant engineering, industrial automation, chemicals, energy, automotive, packaging, plastics, aerospace, logistics and transport, construction, food and FMCG, retail and luxury, media and print, IT and cybersecurity, medical technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and the recycling and circular economy. For employers, HR-Expertgroup provides a high touch, confidential, and results driven search process that reduces risk and time to hire while securing sustainable performance gains. For candidates, the team acts as a trusted partner for both professional and personal development, offering access to curated vacancies and one to one advisory conversations with consultants from their own industry. Quality and authenticity underpin the company ethos, with the objective of delivering durable matches that enhance stability, security, and growth for all parties involved.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseHealthcare AdministrationMental Health CareVeterinary

HUNTING/HER - A division of Stanton Chase

Founded in 2007, HUNTING/HER HR-Partners, a division of Stanton Chase, is Europes leading executive search consultancy focused on advancing women into leadership. The firm helps organizations across industries and sizes achieve measurable gender balance, delivering search mandates for senior management, C-suite, and board roles while also building future pipelines through its curated female talent pool. As part of the global Stanton Chase network, HUNTING/HER combines boutique specialization with the infrastructure, market reach, and sector expertise of a top 10 executive search generalist. With presence in Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Basel, Zurich, and a growing footprint in Stockholm, the team partners with clients throughout the DACH region and Nordics. Its approach blends rigorous search and identification with data-driven diversity recruiting, addressing the structural underrepresentation of women in specific management segments and tailoring outreach, assessment, and stakeholder alignment to overcome hidden barriers. Beyond search, HUNTING/HER Career-Partners provides an integrated HR lifecycle offering for women, including onboarding coaching, leadership development, retention programs, and respectful transitions via newplacement and outplacement, complemented by diversity consulting and business coaching for client organizations. The firm publishes regular thought leadership, hosts executive talks, and collaborates with business media to advance the case for diversity performance, translating research evidence into practical hiring roadmaps. Clients value the combination of discretion, speed, and cultural fit, as well as the firms long standing access to trusted networks that have matured over more than 15 years. Whether a mid sized company seeking its first female role models in key functions or a global enterprise scaling inclusive leadership across regions, HUNTING/HER delivers tailored, repeatable solutions that strengthen competitiveness and unlock the full potential of mixed leadership teams.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentTotal Talent MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer Electronics

HQZürich, Germany

Höchsmann & Company

Founded in 2000, Hoechsmann & Company GmbH & Co. KG is an owner led boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm with offices in Frankfurt and Duesseldorf, Germany. The firm partners with hidden champions, Mittelstand family businesses, international groups and public institutions to identify, assess and appoint C level and senior management leaders who deliver measurable impact. Its offering combines Executive Search and Board Search with succession planning for entrepreneurs and family businesses, leadership coaching, management assessment and competency management, and structured post hire integration support to ensure rapid effectiveness. Hoechsmann & Company blends direct search with rigorous leadership diagnostics to evaluate track record, leadership style, cultural fit and stakeholder alignment, and to define clear 6 to 12 month success criteria before a hire is finalized. Senior consultants personally lead every mandate, run a disciplined and transparent process, and remain involved beyond contract signature as trusted advisors to turn strong selections into lasting results. Sector strengths include transportation and logistics, machinery and plant engineering, and professional services, while the team also delivers cross functional leadership appointments spanning finance, operations, commercial and technology for industrial and service oriented clients. Recognized by WirtschaftsWoche as one of Germanys best recruitment consultancies in 2025 based on client feedback, the firm operates to the highest ethical and quality standards as a long standing certified member of AESC and an active member of BDU. By working with a limited number of clients per segment, Hoechsmann & Company ensures full market coverage without off limits constraints and provides a confidential, precise and hands on approach that reduces mis hire risk, accelerates onboarding and strengthens leadership teams, while offering senior executives discreet career guidance and long term coaching.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationIndustrial MachineryChemical ManufacturingElectrical Engineering

HQFrankfurt, Germany

Kienbaum

Founded in 1945, Kienbaum is a European leadership advisory and talent consulting firm headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The company partners with clients across industries to solve critical people, leadership, and organization challenges. Its core offerings span executive search and interim management for C-suite and senior leaders; permanent recruitment for key specialists and managers; and project-based consulting in organization design, transformation, compensation and benefits, leadership assessment and development, succession, and outplacement. Kienbaum combines decades of sector insight with data-driven diagnostics, proprietary assessment methods, and comprehensive compensation benchmarks to deliver objective, evidence-based recommendations. Its consultants support family-owned Mittelstand companies, private equity portfolio firms, multinationals, and public institutions, aligning leadership and talent strategies with business goals such as growth, digitalization, and international expansion. The firm is recognized for its ability to run complex, cross-border searches and to build diverse slates, emphasizing inclusion, compliance, and long-term fit. Beyond placement, Kienbaum designs governance and operating models, advises on reward architecture and pay equity, and equips leaders through coaching and development programs, ensuring measurable impact from strategy through execution. With teams located across major German cities and an international network spanning Europe and beyond, Kienbaum provides local expertise with a global perspective and a single standard of quality. Its collaborative approach brings together senior partners and specialized researchers, rigorous market mapping, and transparent communication to reduce time-to-hire and risk while strengthening employer brands. Clients value the firm for discretion, accountability, and a relationship-driven ethos that prioritizes sustainable outcomes for organizations and the people who lead them.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseFinTechSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity

HQBerlin, Germany

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