Typical Role Profiles and Mandates

What matters is not hierarchy, but the leverage of the role.

The following overview serves to contextualize our experience since 2005.
It is not the job title that is decisive, but the role’s impact on the market, the organization, and results.
Accordingly, the depth, methodology, and level of assurance in our work are tailored to each situation.

Executive Search & Talent Search

  • Business Unit Leaders with P&L responsibility
  • Managing Director
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
  • Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  • Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
  • Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
  • Head of Engineering
  • Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering
  • Lead Engineer with critical product or system responsibility
  • Head of Sales / Sales Director
  • Sales Manager
  • Territory Manager (with market and P&L responsibility)
  • Key Account Manager (strategic customer responsibility)
  • Head of Business Development
  • Country Manager / General Manager

In addition to classic executive and sales roles, we increasingly support key positions in Finance, Operations, Technology, Transformation, and Governance.

Leadership & Management Diagnostics

  • Sales Managers prior to promotion or role expansion
  • Territory Managers prior to promotion or role expansion
  • Internal candidates for Managing Director roles
  • Internal candidates for leadership roles
  • Succession candidates for C-level roles
  • Succession candidates for Head-of roles
  • Leaders in key positions
  • Leaders in trust-critical positions

Second-Opinion-Mandate

  • Territory Managers in strategically relevant markets
  • Managing Director / CEO (finalist stage)
  • C-level functions
  • Head-of functions
  • Sales Director
  • Senior Sales Manager

Executive Onboarding & First-100-Days Advisory

  • Sales Managers and Territory Managers in newly established or restructured areas of responsibility
  • Newly appointed Managing Directors
  • Externally recruited C-level executives
  • Managing Directors

Board- & Gesellschafterberatung

  • Appointment of market- and revenue-critical sales and growth roles
  • Appointment of Managing Director and C-level roles
  • Succession and transition decisions

Subscription- & Advisory-Retainer

  • Shareholders and investment teams
  • CEO / Managing Director
  • CRO / Head of Sales
  • Sales Manager / Territory Manager
  • HR leadership / CHRO

All mandates pursue one objective: to make decision risks visible before they take effect—regardless of whether this concerns a single key role or a strategic leadership decision.

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