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KLOEPFEL – Your Expert for Procurement, Supply Chain, and Logistics Consulting.

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You need to fill specialist and management positions in your company and are facing the following challenges:

The challenges in recruitment

Your HR department has no capacity
• You lack the know-how and tools for job hunting (e.g. Xing Talent Manager or LinkedIn Recruiter)
Your company does not wish to publicly appear by its own name during recruitment.
The position in question is still occupied and the employee is to be replaced through a covert search.
• Are you looking for a specialist headhunter for procurement, logistics or supply chain
• Our solution: Fast and individual staffing solutions, perfectly tailored to your requirements – from experts for experts in purchasing, supply chain and logistics. We offer bespoke recruitment with a success guarantee (the Kloepfel USP)

Our dynamic experts will contact you immediately and develop a personalised profile of requirements with you.

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Our free pre-search offer

Find suitable candidates reliably and quickly.
We are Germany's first specialist recruitment agency for procurement.

Kloepfel Executive Search is one of the leading specialists in the precise recruitment of key positions in purchasing, logistics, and supply chain management.

Excellent as BEST CONSULTANTS - 10th time in a row

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Award for Brandeins Top Consultants 2025 for the best consultants in Germany.

Our pragmatic doers in HR, with sector-specific know-how, will help you quickly and precisely find the right specialists in purchasing, logistics, or supply chain.

Our executive search team guarantees you excellent response rates thanks to > 50% for direct enquiries the filling of your vacancy within a maximum of 4-6 weeks upon order placement.

Thanks to our network and an exclusive database of over 10.000 Procurement experts are quickly and precisely found, pre-vetted candidates.

We offer bespoke, sustainable staffing solutions with high professional expertise and transparent communication – saving you valuable time and easing the burden on your HR team.

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Your expert for procurement, supply chain & logistics consulting

Would you like to know the likelihood that we can find suitable candidates for your specific requirements profile?

Whether you're a Purchasing Manager, CPO, Strategic Buyer, Commodity Manager, or Procurement Director – with our no-obligation pre-search offer, we'll give you a realistic assessment of the feasibility of filling your vacancy in the shortest possible time.

This practical offer is completely free of charge for you.
After reviewing the results, you will decide whether to commission us!

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"Are you interested in pre-search or have other questions about our goal-oriented recruiting programme? Please get in touch anytime."

– Andreas Miltzner, Manager Executive Search

Experienced. Connected. Reliable. From experts for experts.

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Thanks to our exclusive database of over 10,000 highly qualified
We'll find the best talent for you, from specialists to management.

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Excellent response rates
In most cases, we achieve over 50% on direct approaches
through the recognition of the Kloepfel brand.

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We are the first recruitment specialist for procurement in Germany.

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KLOEPFEL offers you access to a first-class network of specialists.

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Our executive search experts specialise in Procurement, Supply Chain, and Logistics and know the challenges of your industry intimately.

We can listen!

...because every company is different

KLOEPFEL-Executive Search connects companies with top talent.

The key figures in the following infographics illustrate the impressive effectiveness of Kloepfel Consulting's recruitment service, using the example of a commercial vehicle manufacturer in the Westphalia region of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Case Study

Placement of a Commodity Manager in the automotive industry

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Case Study

Recruitment of a Head of Purchasing and Logistics in Special Mechanical Engineering

In total, 157 potential candidates were identified and 122 were approached, of whom 59 responded. The response rate was therefore 48%. Of the 18 candidates interviewed, 7 were presented to the client, which resulted in the hiring of one candidate. The project was completed within a period of 3.5 months.

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• 122 candidates contacted
• 59 feedback
• 18 guided interviews

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Satisfied customers

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Special vehicle construction
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Special vehicle construction
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Handel
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Mechanical and plant engineering
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Mastering the factor of time with confidence.

Fill positions quickly and efficiently.

We don't search. We find.

We find perfectly suited and highly qualified employees in purchasing, supply chain, and logistics within 6 weeks.

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Analysis and Requirements Profile

Intensive discussions with the relevant department and HR enable us to create an accurate profile of the person we are looking for.

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Candidate search

We search our exclusive candidate pool and our networks for suitable talent, place advertisements and conduct direct approaches.

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Selection process

Candidates are qualified through a multi-stage process. We will only present candidates who are personally and professionally suitable and interested in your company. Weed out obviously bad employers.

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Application process

Once the shortlist has been drawn up, we will accompany you through the application process right up to the point of hire – as intensively as you wish.

With perseverance by your side: Recruitment with a success guarantee

If it takes a little longer to find the right candidate, we will of course continue to be at your disposal. We will continue our search until we have found a suitable candidate and the position has been successfully filled. Guaranteed.

Should the candidate not meet your expectations and should the employment relationship be terminated for this reason within the first 6 months, we will immediately continue our search and arrange for a replacement.

Whether it's personal passports or a shortage of skilled workers

Kloepfel's career makers will support you with every aspect of recruitment.

Where your contacts are real doers

Interim management

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Sven Schützek

Interim Recruiting Manager

Do you require short-term support for your purchasing department?

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

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Andreas Miltzner

Manager, Executive Search

Are you looking for LONG-TERM support for your purchasing department?

OUTSOURCING

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Patrick Esselborn

Kloepfel Services CEO

Do you want to staff your purchasing department with international specialists?

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