Strong positioning of companies in Germany through headhunting.


Our passion for over 50 years!

Strong positioning of companies in Germany through headhunting.


Our passion for over 50 years!

Your Headhunter in Stuttgart - the Range of Services Offered by Dr. Maier + Partner

Ein Mann und eine Frau sitzen am Tisch und blicken zum rechten Bildrand. Der Mann gestikuliert mit einer Hand. Am rechten Bildrand sieht man den Kopf einer Frau von hinten.

Headhunting for Executives in Germany

People make companies successful. We provide our clients with comprehensive support in identifying and recruiting the right leaders for their key positions. In headhunting, personal contacts, seniority, experience, and overview all count similarily. We have a resilient international network and access to relevant decision-makers and excellent personalities. This is how we find people who develop companies, drive innovation and sustainably secure and expand our clients' success. 
In intensive discussions we analyse and question the basic requirements of our clients. We define detailed competence and requirement profiles with reference to reality and the framework conditions on the labour market.
Eine junge Frau steht vor einem Raum und befindet sich in einer Gesprächssituation mit einer weiteren Frau, von der nur ein Teil von hinten zu sehen ist. Die junge Frau lächelt freundlich.

First-Class Networking - Nationwide and Internationally

We look back on over 50 years of experience in headhunting - in Germany and internationally.  We recruit executives for clients throughout Germany and in an international context.

As headhunters, we focus on recruiting executives for German locations and business units for companies from abroad.

In addition to our expertise in headhunting and our knowledge of the industry, we can also draw on broad knowledge of intercultural communication in order to always be able to recruit outstanding executives and suitable personalities for our clients.

Eine Frau sitzt lachend auf einem Sessel und blickt zum rechten Bildrand.

Attracting Leaders with Industry Expertise

We work with numerous small and medium-sized enterprises as well as family businesses. We also count companies with several thousand employees and international corporations among our clients. We speak the language of medium-sized businesses and understand how to fill management positions in a high-quality, suitable and sustainable manner.
 

Dr. Maier + Partner sees itself as a cross-sector generalist. We are very familiar with sectors such as the automotive industry or mechanical and plant engineering.  We recruit executives in every sector. We count technology companies as well as businesses from the retail, consumer goods, and medical technology sectors among our clients. We also find suitable executives for high-tech and start-up companies.

Ein Mann sitzt in einem Sessel und gestikuliert in einer Gesprächssituation mit zwei Stiften. Ihm gegenüber sitzt ein weiterer Mann, von dem ein Teil des Kopfes von hinten zu sehen ist.

We Offer Efficient and Sustainable High-Quality Headhunting Processes

In addition to the professional and personal qualifications, in personal interviews we scrutinise the working methods and individual attitudes of the candidates and compare the results with your requirements and your company culture.

We check references very seriously and with the necessary experience. Furthermore, we use diagnostic procedures if requested by the client.

After our intensive selection process, the right decision for a successful cooperation can be made on the basis of joint discussions with you and the candidates.

Even after a vacancy has been successfully filled, our consulting work does not end. We accompany leaders during their integration into the new position (on-boarding) and regularly seek dialogue with the candidates as well as with our clients. This is how connections are formed that are characterised by trust and integrity.

Ihr Headhunter in Stuttgart – das Leistungsspektrum von Dr. Maier + Partner

Ein Mann und eine Frau sitzen am Tisch und blicken zum rechten Bildrand. Der Mann gestikuliert mit einer Hand. Am rechten Bildrand sieht man den Kopf einer Frau von hinten.

Headhunting for Executives in Germany

People make companies successful. We provide our clients with comprehensive support in identifying and recruiting the right leaders for their key positions. In headhunting, personal contacts, seniority, experience, and overview all count similarily. We have a resilient international network and access to relevant decision-makers and excellent personalities. This is how we find people who develop companies, drive innovation and sustainably secure and expand our clients' success. 
In intensive discussions we analyse and question the basic requirements of our clients. We define detailed competence and requirement profiles with reference to reality and the framework conditions on the labour market.
Eine Frau sitzt lachend auf einem Sessel und blickt zum rechten Bildrand.

Attracting Leaders with Industry Expertise

We work with numerous small and medium-sized enterprises as well as family businesses. We also count companies with several thousand employees and international corporations among our clients. We speak the language of medium-sized businesses and understand how to fill management positions in a high-quality, suitable and sustainable manner.
 

Dr. Maier + Partner sees itself as a cross-sector generalist. We are very familiar with sectors such as the automotive industry or mechanical and plant engineering.  We recruit executives in every sector. We count technology companies as well as businesses from the retail, consumer goods, and medical technology sectors among our clients. We also find suitable executives for high-tech and start-up companies.

Ein Mann sitzt in einem Sessel und gestikuliert in einer Gesprächssituation mit zwei Stiften. Ihm gegenüber sitzt ein weiterer Mann, von dem ein Teil des Kopfes von hinten zu sehen ist.

First-Class Networking - Nationwide and Internationally

We look back on over 50 years of experience in headhunting - in Germany and internationally.  We recruit executives for clients throughout Germany and in an international context.

As headhunters, we focus on recruiting executives for German locations and business units for companies from abroad.

In addition to our expertise in headhunting and our knowledge of the industry, we can also draw on broad knowledge of intercultural communication in order to always be able to recruit outstanding executives and suitable personalities for our clients.

Eine junge Frau steht vor einem Raum und befindet sich in einer Gesprächssituation mit einer weiteren Frau, von der nur ein Teil von hinten zu sehen ist. Die junge Frau lächelt freundlich.

We Offer Efficient and Sustainable High-Quality Headhunting Processes

In addition to the professional and personal qualifications, in personal interviews we scrutinise the working methods and individual attitudes of the candidates and compare the results with your requirements and your company culture.

We check references very seriously and with the necessary experience. Furthermore, we use diagnostic procedures if requested by the client.

After our intensive selection process, the right decision for a successful cooperation can be made on the basis of joint discussions with you and the candidates.

Even after a vacancy has been successfully filled, our consulting work does not end. We accompany leaders during their integration into the new position (on-boarding) and regularly seek dialogue with the candidates as well as with our clients. This is how connections are formed that are characterised by trust and integrity.

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Recruitment Methods and Tools

Recruitment Methods and Tools

In order to be able to make the right personnel decisions at management level, we as headhunters determine the needs of our clients in detail in an intensive discussion. In close dialogue, we work out the requirements and competence profile as well as the search environment and jointly decide on the appropriate method. 

In order to present you with a holistic solution for filling vacant management positions, we at Dr. Maier + Partner draw on a broad repertoire of different instruments in our targeted selection methodology. As your competent partner, we can react appropriately to any requirement situation and are the right headhunter for you in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg and throughout Germany.

In order to be able to make the right personnel decisions at management level, we as headhunters determine the needs of our clients in detail in an intensive discussion. In close dialogue, we work out the requirements and competence profile as well as the search environment and jointly decide on the appropriate method. 

In order to present you with a holistic solution for filling vacant management positions, we at Dr. Maier + Patner draw on a broad repertoire of different instruments in our targeted selection methodology.

Zwei Berater von Dr. Maier + Partner sitzen mit einer Kundin zusammen und lächeln freundlich

Direct Approach

In tight and sensitive candidate markets, we identify potential candidates with inventiveness, creative strategies and the required seriousness. We approach them discreetly for your company. Our clear process structure guarantees the highest quality.

Ad-Supported Search

Together with you, we carefully select media that are optimally tailored to your project. In this way, you reach personalities willing to change without detours. In doing so, we draw on a wealth of experience from various channels and media and guide you transparently through the process of ad-supported search.

Database Search

Through our database, which has grown over the years, we find suitable candidates effectively and quickly. The multi-layered sorting enables a search with extremely accurate results, which makes the process particularly efficient.

Successful Combinations

Every project is individual. Accordingly, we give you recommendations for the combination of methods for successful recruitment.

Diagnostics

In order to make the right personnel decisions, we rely on innovative aptitude diagnostics. With these scientifically based decision-making aids, miscasting risks, fluctuation and bad investments can be avoided. Thus, your decision is based on a solid foundation.

Potential Analysis

Making even better use of employees' potential and developing it is a very important tool in a competitive labour market. However, internal personnel decisions should also be well secured in order to avoid cost-intensive and image-damaging wrong decisions. Our specialists from the field of human resources development carry out potential analyses, ensure external neutrality, and create comparability.

Our Consultants

Our Consultants

Our Headhunting Services

Sandra Fröhlich, Senior Consultant bei Dr. Maier + Partner

Sandra Fröhlich contributes over 20 years of consulting experience from the automotive, industry and financial services sectors to Dr. Maier + Partner. Most recently, she worked as an Executive Search Consultant at Kienbaum Consultants International and successfully recruited managers and specialists for medium-sized companies.

After completing her business studies with a focus on HR and marketing, Sandra Fröhlich started her career as a HR officer at a well-known medium-sized automotive supplier. Her focus was on recruiting specialists and managers in competitive markets. With the help of complex selection methods, she successfully built up a new corporate division with changed requirements for employees, and then worked as a personnel and organisational developer to drive this change process in the production environment of the automotive industry.

With her move to self-employment as a senior consultant in the financial services sector, Sandra Fröhlich expanded her consulting expertise to include coaching and career counselling for academics.

With her training as a systemic business coach and online coach, Sandra Fröhlich now focuses on HR consulting - in addition to executive search. Her goal: to actively support our clients with business coaching, management audits and career consulting, in parallel to executive selection in executive development.

Portrait von Martin Hölderle, Principal bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Martin Hölderle has been working in executive search at national and international level for more than ten years. He gained first experience during his studies (Business Administration with a focus on Human Resources) in a consulting boutique in Munich. He then wrote his thesis on Executive Search. He started his career at a renowned German Executive Search consultancy, where he was most recently responsible for international research as Head of Research. In 2014, he moved to Kienbaum, where he was given more and more responsibility over the years. He also completed an MBA at the same time.

His consulting focus and his range of experience lie in the placement of executives in the areas of management, divisional management and at department head level. The filling of specialist roles along the entire value chain of modern manufacturing companies, (engineering) service providers and trading companies round off his profile. Mr Hölderle mainly accompanies mandates in companies in the sectors of industry (especially mechanical and plant engineering), electrical engineering/communication technology, automotive, medical technology and trading companies. His clients are owner-managed companies, corporate groups and private equity companies.

 

 

Since July 2021, Martin Hölderle is part of Dr Maier und Partner in Stuttgart.

Portrait von Dr. Ivo Odak, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH
Dr Ivo Odak worked for over eleven years as managing director of two internationally operating and technologically leading medium-sized industrial companies and has a total of around twenty years of industrial experience. During this time he gained, among other things, very extensive knowledge in the management of medium-sized organisations, in personnel selection processes and in the development of employees. His focus is on filling first and second level management positions worldwide, especially in manufacturing industries. Dr Odak advises small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as an expert in corporate succession issues. His other consulting focuses are in the areas of strategy and change management. Dr Ivo Odak has been a partner at Dr. Maier + Partner since 2017. At the beginning of 2019, he acquired shares and became a managing partner.





Portrait Heinrich Schaible, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH
Around 20 years of experience in headhunting – Heinrich Schaible has proven expertise in filling management positions at international and national level. After studying industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Heinrich Schaible held various management positions in an international group for many years and also gained experience in the management of a technology start-up company. He has been working for Dr. Maier + Partner as an HR consultant since 2001 and has been managing director of the company since 2006. In 2010, he finally became managing partner as part of a successful company succession.

Portrait von Patric Wittmann, Consultant bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH
Mr Wittmann has several years of experience in the identification and selection of specialists, young professionals as well as experts and managers. Even during his dual studies in business administration / human resources management at the Cooperative State University Lörrach, he focused on active recruiting / active sourcing. Patric Wittmann joined the recruiting team at Dr. Maier + Partner in 2017 and deepened his expertise in the systems of a renowned headhunting recruitment consultancy. With proven success, his focus at Dr. Maier + Partner is on filling demanding positions for specialists as well as specialists and executives in medium-sized companies.




Portrait von Sven Hasenwandel, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Specialist and wide-ranging expertise in filling specialist and management positions for medium-sized companies and large companies in the manufacturing sector – Sven Hasenwandel has broad-based expertise based on many years of international professional experience in HR consulting.

 

The graduate economist gained extensive knowledge during his seven years as partner and branch manager of a renowned management consultancy in Stuttgart with a nationwide presence. In 2006, he then started as Managing Director at Dr. Maier + Partner. Sven Hasenwandel played a decisive role in shaping the development of the company and became managing partner in 2013.

 

His industry focus is on mechanical and plant engineering, the automotive industry, the electrotechnical industry and the IT and service sector.

Dr. Philipp Kastropp, Consultant bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Dr Philipp Kastropp is specialised in the interdisciplinary and intersectoral staffing of executives. Due to his academic background, he has many years of proven methodological competence, which comes into play especially in his work with multinational-heterogeneous organisational structures.

Dr Kastropp already gained experience in complex selection processes during his own promotion period at an academic talent agency. Following this foundation, he joined a renowned headhunting boutique in Munich after submitting his dissertation. There he gained in-depth knowledge in headhnuting and management selection.

In addition to this, his focus today is on questions of corporate culture in order to make our clients successful in the long term. With this professional expertise, Dr Kastropp has joined Dr. Maier + Partner in 2021.

 

Portrait Robert Sadjak, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Robert Sadjak has many years of experience in identifying and managing professionals and managers.

 

After his business studies, he worked for 15 years at large, international consumer goods manufacturers in national and regional responsibilities - seven of them at executive level. He then founded a platform start-up in the field of personnel and event management for companies. Through the corporate and self-employment stations, Robert Sadjak has experienced and successfully shaped business and personnel developments from different perspectives.

 

His focus at Dr. Maier + Partner is on filling executive positions at the first and second management levels. His clients and industry focus are medium-sized manufacturing companies, consumer goods companies, high-growth start-ups and consultancies - often with an international orientation. Other consulting focuses are the development of growth strategies, digitalisation and brand building.

Portrait von Jens Siegloch, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Before joining Dr. Maier + Partner, Jens Siegloch gained over 20 years of experience in headhunting, 14 of which he spent as a partner at Kienbaum Consultants International.

After studying administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz, he quickly made a career in consulting. Jens Siegloch has many years of management experience as head of branch offices and sector-centred practice groups. 

He is responsible for and accompanies topics such as company succession, C-level positions and the establishment of nationwide and international sales and development teams in family-run medium-sized businesses, in corporate groups, and in companies held by private equity firms. In addition to his focus on automotive, mechanical engineering, and the metalworking industry, Jens Siegloch successfully holds mandates in other industries such as FMCG, retail, pharmaceuticals and the public sector.

Sandra Fröhlich, Senior Consultant bei Dr. Maier + Partner

Sandra Fröhlich contributes over 20 years of consulting experience from the automotive, industry and financial services sectors to Dr. Maier + Partner. Most recently, she worked as an Executive Search Consultant at Kienbaum Consultants International and successfully recruited managers and specialists for medium-sized companies.

After completing her business studies with a focus on HR and marketing, Sandra Fröhlich started her career as a HR officer at a well-known medium-sized automotive supplier. Her focus was on recruiting specialists and managers in competitive markets. With the help of complex selection methods, she successfully built up a new corporate division with changed requirements for employees, and then worked as a personnel and organisational developer to drive this change process in the production environment of the automotive industry.

With her move to self-employment as a senior consultant in the financial services sector, Sandra Fröhlich expanded her consulting expertise to include coaching and career counselling for academics.

With her training as a systemic business coach and online coach, Sandra Fröhlich now focuses on HR consulting - in addition to executive search. Her goal: to actively support our clients with business coaching, management audits and career consulting, in parallel to executive selection in executive development.

Portrait von Sven Hasenwandel, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Specialist and wide-ranging expertise in filling specialist and management positions for medium-sized companies and large companies in the manufacturing sector – Sven Hasenwandel has broad-based expertise based on many years of international professional experience in HR consulting.

 

The graduate economist gained extensive knowledge during his seven years as partner and branch manager of a renowned management consultancy in Stuttgart with a nationwide presence. In 2006, he then started as Managing Director at Dr. Maier + Partner. Sven Hasenwandel played a decisive role in shaping the development of the company and became managing partner in 2013.

 

His industry focus is on mechanical and plant engineering, the automotive industry, the electrotechnical industry and the IT and service sector.

Portrait von Martin Hölderle, Principal bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Martin Hölderle has been working in executive search at national and international level for more than ten years. He gained first experience during his studies (Business Administration with a focus on Human Resources) in a consulting boutique in Munich. He then wrote his thesis on Executive Search. He started his career at a renowned German Executive Search consultancy, where he was most recently responsible for international research as Head of Research. In 2014, he moved to Kienbaum, where he was given more and more responsibility over the years. He also completed an MBA at the same time.

His consulting focus and his range of experience lie in the placement of executives in the areas of management, divisional management and at department head level. The filling of specialist roles along the entire value chain of modern manufacturing companies, (engineering) service providers and trading companies round off his profile. Mr Hölderle mainly accompanies mandates in companies in the sectors of industry (especially mechanical and plant engineering), electrical engineering/communication technology, automotive, medical technology and trading companies. His clients are owner-managed companies, corporate groups and private equity companies.

 

 

Since July 2021, Martin Hölderle is part of Dr Maier und Partner in Stuttgart.

Dr. Philipp Kastropp, Consultant bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Dr Philipp Kastropp is specialised in the interdisciplinary and intersectoral staffing of executives. Due to his academic background, he has many years of proven methodological competence, which comes into play especially in his work with multinational-heterogeneous organisational structures.

Dr Kastropp already gained experience in complex selection processes during his own promotion period at an academic talent agency. Following this foundation, he joined a renowned headhunting boutique in Munich after submitting his dissertation. There he gained in-depth knowledge in headhnuting and management selection.

In addition to this, his focus today is on questions of corporate culture in order to make our clients successful in the long term. With this professional expertise, Dr Kastropp has joined Dr. Maier + Partner in 2021.

 

Portrait von Dr. Ivo Odak, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Dr Ivo Odak worked for over eleven years as managing director of two internationally operating and technologically leading medium-sized industrial companies and has a total of around twenty years of industrial experience. During this time he gained, among other things, very extensive knowledge in the management of medium-sized organisations, in personnel selection processes and in the development of employees.

 

His focus is on filling first and second management level positions worldwide, especially in manufacturing industries. Dr Odak advises small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as an expert in questions of corporate succession. His other consulting focuses are in the areas of strategy and change management.

 

Dr Ivo Odak has been a partner at Dr Maier + Partner since 2017. At the beginning of 2019, he acquired shares and became a managing partner.

Portrait Robert Sadjak, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Robert Sadjak has many years of experience in identifying and managing professionals and managers.

 

After his business studies, he worked for 15 years at large, international consumer goods manufacturers in national and regional responsibilities - seven of them at executive level. He then founded a platform start-up in the field of personnel and event management for companies. Through the corporate and self-employment stations, Robert Sadjak has experienced and successfully shaped business and personnel developments from different perspectives.

 

His focus at Dr. Maier + Partner is on filling executive positions at the first and second management levels. His clients and industry focus are medium-sized manufacturing companies, consumer goods companies, high-growth start-ups and consultancies - often with an international orientation. Other consulting focuses are the development of growth strategies, digitalisation and brand building.

Portrait Heinrich Schaible, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Around 20 years of experience in headhunting. Heinrich Schaible has proven expertise in filling management positions at international and national level.
After studying industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Heinrich Schaible held various management positions in an international corporation for many years and also gained experience in the management of a technology start-up company. He has been working for Dr. Maier + Partner as an HR consultant since 2001 and has been managing director of the company since 2006. In 2010, he finally became managing partner as part of a successful company succession.

Heinrich Schaible has in-depth consulting experience in the automotive, technology, mechanical and plant engineering sectors as well as in the aerospace industry. The focus of his consulting work is on filling management positions worldwide and on the topics of corporate succession, management assessment and remuneration models in medium-sized companies.

Portrait von Jens Siegloch, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH

Before joining Dr. Maier + Partner, Jens Siegloch gained over 20 years of experience in headhunting, 14 of which he spent as a partner at Kienbaum Consultants International.

After studying administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz, he quickly made a career in consulting. Jens Siegloch has many years of management experience as head of branch offices and sector-centred practice groups. 

He is responsible for and accompanies topics such as company succession, C-level positions and the establishment of nationwide and international sales and development teams in family-run medium-sized businesses, in corporate groups, and in companies held by private equity firms. In addition to his focus on automotive, mechanical engineering, and the metalworking industry, Jens Siegloch successfully holds mandates in other industries such as FMCG, retail, pharmaceuticals and the public sector.

Portrait von Patric Wittmann, Consultant bei der Dr. Maier + Partner GmbH
Mr Wittmann has several years of experience in the identification and selection of specialists, young professionals as well as experts and managers. Even during his dual studies in business administration / human resources management at the Cooperative State University Lörrach, he focused on active recruiting / active sourcing. Patric Wittmann joined the recruiting team at Dr. Maier + Partner in 2017 and deepened his expertise in the systems of a renowned headhunting recruitment consultancy. With proven success, his focus at Dr. Maier + Partner is on filling demanding positions for specialists as well as specialists and executives in medium-sized companies.




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