- 55 years of expertise
- Specialist in mid-sized businesses
- Exclusive candidate pool
We find the leaders you need!
Our Executive Search Services
Dr Maier + Partner stands for high-quality executive search. We fill vacant positions in southern Germany and throughout Germany. For over 55 years, clients have relied on our experts as trusted partners in executive search. We help you to fill vacant specialist and management positions with outstanding personalities. Sustainability and humanity are just as important in the selection process at Dr Maier + Partner as exceptional professional qualifications. It is our passion to complement your company perfectly with our expertise. Please feel free to contact us at any time with your enquiry.
Executive Search – Delivering the right leaders for your organization
First-Class Networking - Nationwide and Internationally
Wir blicken auf über 55 Jahre Erfahrung im Executive Search zurück – in Deutschland und auf internationaler Ebene. Wir gewinnen Führungskräfte für Kunden in ganz Deutschland und im internationalen Kontext. Dabei fokussieren wir uns auf die Gewinnung von Führungskräften für deutsche Standorte und Business Units für Unternehmen aus dem Ausland. Neben unserer Expertise im Executive Search und unseren Branchenkenntnissen können wir auch auf breite Kenntnisse in der interkulturellen Kommunikation zurückgreifen, um für unsere Kunden stets hervorragende Führungskräfte und passende Persönlichkeiten gewinnen zu können.
We understand your unique challenges
Highest Identification With Your Tasks
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.
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 + Patner draw on a broad repertoire of different instruments in our targeted selection methodology.
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 Focus Areas
Our Consultants
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.
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. Rolf Keck brings nearly two decades of experience in placing senior leadership roles across national and international industrial mid-sized companies. His focus is on management and executive-level positions, with deep industry expertise in automation, mechanical engineering, measurement and control technology, and building technologies. At Dr. Maier + Partner, he leverages a broad international network and a strong understanding of the dynamics and governance structures of family-owned businesses.
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 the global placement of senior and executive leadership roles, primarily at the first and second management levels, with a strong emphasis on industrial and manufacturing environments. He brings extensive advisory experience across the automotive, technology, machinery and plant engineering sectors, as well as the public sector. In addition, Dr. Odak is a recognized expert in succession planning and the application of executive management assessments.
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.
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.
Before joining Dr. Maier + Partner, Jens Siegloch gained over 20 years of experience in executive search, 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 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.
With nearly 15 years of experience and more than 1,000 completed executive search assignments across over 40 countries, Frederik Horn brings a proven track record in placing senior leaders at both international and domestic levels. Following his studies in German and European Business Law at the University of Siegen, he spent six years with a globally leading, family-owned company headquartered in Hesse and employing approximately 9,000 people. There, he held roles in strategic marketing and business development, most recently serving as Executive Assistant to the Managing Director for Global Sales.
From 2011 to 2025, Frederik Horn served initially as Head of Executive Search and Consultant and, from 2021 onward, as Managing Partner at etec Consult, a Frankfurt-based executive search firm specializing in mid-sized companies. Responsible for global sales.
His core focus is on the placement of senior executive and top-management roles at both national and international level, primarily within family-owned mid-market companies. His industry expertise spans factory and process automation, mechanical and plant engineering, as well as the high-tech sector.
Since May 2025, he has been serving as a Partner at Dr. Maier + Partner, where—together with Dr. Rolf Keck—he is responsible for establishing and expanding the firm’s Rhine-Main office. In addition, drawing on his extensive track record in placing senior-level executives internationally—particularly across the United States, Southeast Asia, and Latin America—he will further drive the international growth of Dr. Maier + Partner.
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 executive search 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.
Sebastian Lang has 20 years of management experience in the automotive, mechanical and plant engineering and electrical engineering sectors. After studying business administration with a focus on human resources and industrial management, he gained national and international experience as a CHRO and HR manager in medium-sized and listed companies.
Sebastian Lang focuses on filling positions at the first and second management levels, especially in manufacturing industries. As a systemic organisational developer (isb), he advises companies in all areas of modern and future-oriented HR management. His consulting focus is on strategy and culture development, change management, HR transformation and digitalisation.
Around 20 years of experience in executive search – 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.
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.
Andreas Stecher is a seasoned executive search consultant with more than twelve years of experience in leadership recruitment. While studying law, he already gained hands-on exposure to identifying and assessing top-tier executives at a well-established, internationally operating German management consultancy.
His primary focus is on the manufacturing mid-market across the DACH region. He specializes in the identification and selection of senior leaders who not only meet the specific role requirements but also strengthen and complement the company’s culture. As a certified HOGAN assessment consultant, he brings strong diagnostic expertise to his executive selection processes.
Since 2024, Andreas Stecher has been part of Dr. Maier + Partner, playing an active role in building and expanding the firm’s Nuremberg office.
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, his focus and activities were 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 executive search consultancy. With a proven track record, his focus at Dr. Maier + Partner today is on filling challenging positions for specialists as well as specialists and executives in medium-sized companies.
Locations
Our executive search services are also available in Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Munich. We support you on-site in the targeted search for top-level executives.
