NEXT LEVEL: CULTURAL ADD
VALUE-ORIENTED
CLEARLY FOCUSED
IN HARMONY WITH
COMPANIES AND PEOPLE
Our approach to companies and candidates is not only skill-based, but encompasses shared values, attitudes and ways of thinking. Corporate culture is a conscious design process resulting from leadership with clear values, which are lived and shared.
This is why we are not only looking for cultural fit, but also cultural add: people who understand a company, strengthen it and help develop it based on their own values.
VALUE-SCOPE-APPROACH
1. Orientation
Clarity about values, culture and direction. We create a common understanding of how your company thinks, decides and acts. The focus is on the cultural starting point and the characteristics that shape your organisation.
2. Immersion
Identifying patterns in leadership, collaboration and development. We look at the dynamics in teams and management levels in order to reveal opportunities and directions for development. This creates a holistic picture of your cultural strengths and potential.
3. Embedding
Shaping values effectively. We help you translate cultural guidelines into everyday life – in leadership, collaboration and HR processes. The objective is a lived, consistent culture that provides orientation and shapes the future.
The result: a new level of compatibility
Our work leads to an authentic connection between people, values and organisations. This creates teams that not only function together
but also work for each other – as cultural pioneers of a new, value-oriented corporate culture. As a result, opportunity costs will decrease
as failed assignments, friction losses and cultural tensions are reduced. At the same time, clear values will promote sustainability in
decisions and economic success, strengthening long-term stability.
We combine individual strengths with consulting experience
and operational leadership skills
Industry Focus and Expertise
Solutions for Commerce,
IT, and Leadership
We specialize in the placement of leadership and specialist roles for companies with a focus on the retail and consumer goods sectors. With profound knowledge and a deep understanding of industry-specific challenges, we identify the right talents to drive sustainable progress for businesses.
FMCG
SMCG
Retail
Fashion
Logistics
A particular focus lies in the placement of experts in IT, logistics, and supply chain management. Additionally, we provide targeted support to companies in filling leadership positions, identifying individuals who inspire teams, implement clear visions, and strategically guide companies toward success.
Forward-Thinking HR Strategies:
Your Success Starts with Us
CORE SERVICES
Strategic Consulting for Sustainable Leadership & Staffing Decisions
Hofmann Consultants provides exceptional consulting services for filling top positions, leadership development, and digital transformation.
With strategic foresight and industry expertise, we ensure sustainable success and enhance your company’s competitiveness.
Identification and Placement of Top Executives
in the Consumer Goods Market with Internationally Experienced Leaders.
Not many recruitment consultancies are as deeply rooted in the consumer goods market as Dieter Hofmann Consultants. For more than 30 years, the name Hofmann has stood for exclusive connections with renowned companies in trade and industry.
The consumer goods industry in particular is firmly in the hands of family-owned companies. These companies value long-standing, trusting and discreet relationships with external consulting firms. Convincing advice on filling management and specialist positions and providing superior solutions for strategic issues are essential prerequisites for such a relationship.
Our clients and candidates appreciate the atmosphere of trust that arises from personal and long-term support. Independence, reliability, openness and fairness are not empty words for us. Proceeding with great care and tact is not a formality, but is crucial, especially for owner-managed companies and highly sensitive positions.
We support and advise international corporations, medium-sized, listed and family-run companies, as well as private equity portfolio companies, in mastering complex challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation with foresight and confidence and with the right personalities.
Our in-depth understanding of the industry and structures within the European food, near-food and non-food environment encompassing both manufacturing and retail, guarantees the quality of our work.
The candidate`s professional expertise is just as important as the fit between his/her personality and the specifics of a future corporate culture.
Candidates are approached directly on the basis of a systematic search and a consistent selection process. First-class groundwork is a decisive factor in finding and attracting the best personalities for a vacancy.
Consulting services on enterprise succession in family businesses
and support in matters relating to committee work.
Board consulting has been playing an increasingly important role since supervisory boards became the subject of public interest during the financial crisis. The resulting discussion about corporate governance requires an experienced partner with extensive expertise and full understanding of the scope and relevance of this task not only when it comes to appointments but also regarding the evaluation of existing committees.
The necessary tasks associated with board consulting are individual and company-specific, which is why we do not offer standardised ‘products’ in this field.
The current increase in complexity and uncertainty poses a massive challenge for companies. It is not sufficient any longer for supervisory and advisory boards to be well connected; they must also possess a high degree of professionalism. When it comes to filling these positions, in addition to in-depth and sector-specific knowledge, an impeccable reputation, personal integrity and ethical standards play a major role. We see ourselves as a partner with a keen sensitivity for the culture, strategy and positioning of a company, and with extensive experience in exercising tact and sensitivity at the right moment.
Targeted search and recruitment of experienced and strategically suitable individuals for supervisory and advisory board positions.
The appointment of supervisory and advisory board members is of strategic importance for companies. These bodies are responsible for providing control, consultation and long-term orientation – and therefore constitute the central pillars of a successful corporate governance. Against a backdrop of global markets, regulatory requirements and disruptive changes, the quality of mandate holders is becoming increasingly important.
A professionally conducted board search ensures that companies attract individuals, who not only impress by their experience and expertise, but also by their integrity, independence and innovative strength.
The search for suitable supervisory and advisory board members is complex:
Candidates need expertise in areas such as finance, digitalisation, sustainability and international expansion.
Legal requirements regarding independence, diversity and competence must be taken into account. A successful board is characterised by constructive cooperation and respectful discourse.
As these are highly sensitive processes, confidentiality is an essential requirement.
Many companies quickly come up to their limits when searching on their own. Their networks often fail to identify the best candidates – especially when fresh perspectives or international experience are required. We work with our clients to create a detailed competency profile. Professional qualifications, personality traits, values and leadership style all play an important part in this process.
Suitable candidates are identified by using our comprehensive networks built up over many years combined with systematic search methods – thus providing results beyond the usual ‘well-known names’. Potential candidates are objectively evaluated based on structured interviews, reference checks and, if required, assessments.
A professional board search by Dieter Hofmann Consultants offers:
- Access to an exclusive network of candidates
- Utmost discretion throughout the entire process
- Objective, independent evaluation of candidates
- Long-term and sustainable appointments
- Promotion of diversity and strategic renewal within the board
- A professional board search is therefore not just a recruitment process, but a central component of a sustainable corporate governance.
Comprehensive Consulting for Digital Transformation Processes to Prepare Companies for Future Challenges.
Companies are increasingly realizing that digitalization means far more than just conducting online business and communicating electronically with customers.
The challenges—and opportunities—are growing as rapidly as technological advancements. To stay competitive or even become a leader in the future, it is crucial to understand digital transformation as a fundamental shift that impacts a company at its core. Successfully navigating this transformation requires the most capable professionals at every level.
We help you find them.
Evaluation of Competencies and Efficiency in Board Work to Optimize Leadership Structures.
A candidate’s ability to intelligently and confidently tackle future challenges is often underestimated, as it can be difficult to assess. Hofmann Consultants has developed the Leadership Review, a tool that clearly identifies this capability. It focuses on key indicators such as curiosity, perceptiveness, engagement, and determination—factors that make a candidate’s potential tangible alongside their professional qualifications.
The Leadership Review plays a crucial role in succession planning, the search and placement of executives for supervisory boards, and C-level recruitment.
Shape Your Future – With the Right People by Your Side!
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