{"id":6502,"date":"2022-05-06T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contagi.ch\/?page_id=6502"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:25:19","slug":"executive-search","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/contagi.ch\/en\/executive-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Search"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hire for attitude. Train for skills.<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>
We are your executive search firm, run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurial decision-makers.<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Successful companies are built on extraordinary personalities<\/strong>. With the understanding of a long-term business partner<\/strong>, we apply our passion, sensitivity and systematic approach to connect specialists and executives with exceptional companies. As experts in executive search<\/strong>, we offer recruitment consulting services for all types of companies and corporations.<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Our focus industries<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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Digital Services \/ IT Solutions<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

Our functionally structured team of experts offers cross-industry support on all relevant IT and digital topics for our clients in the industrial and service sectors. We understand the complexity of today\u2019s digital challenges and can draw on our own wealth of experience, acquired over a span of many years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Financial Services<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

Our Financial Services expertise is based on our long-standing networks and a deep understanding of the market. We focus on specialist and executive positions in the credit industry and in asset management. Our enthusiasm for supporting projects involving current developments in blockchain\/token technology and cryptocurrencies continues to grow.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Legal & Tax
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With our Legal & Tax team, we support international and national law firms of all shapes and sizes in the recruitment of individual lawyers and teams as well as in matters relating to the opening of new offices and market entry. We also provide our more than twenty years of expertise and our network to our customers (particularly in the areas of law, tax, HR and compliance).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Life Sciences
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Our team’s expertise is based on extensive project experience in various functional areas of the industry. Complemented by specific knowledge of our customers and their market companions in the fields of diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and food ingredients, our practice partners and their colleagues are able to find customised personnel solutions. Of course, we also benefit from our extensive network – both sector-specific and connecting with neighbouring sectors.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Media + IT<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

Our experts can draw on 30 successful years of experience in different roles in the (digital) media landscape. They experienced the changes in the industry first-hand and have been fortunate enough to help shape it. We fill vacancies for highly specialised technical and commercial specialists and executives in this continuously evolving industry with ever-new market participants.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Professional Services<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

We have been mastering the challenges of the narrow market segment of strategy and process consulting, auditing, and tax consulting for many years now. With our first-class track record, we are truly familiar with our clients’ competitive environment and support them in all relevant practices, from specialists through to managing partners.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Our Real Estate team covers the entire spectrum of the real estate industry: from technical management positions to investment\/finance roles in every relevant asset class, from residential to retail to data centres. We draw on our established and robust networks to serve our clients in the best manner possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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SMEs<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Entrepreneurship is in our DNA. We have no specific industry focus, but rather think and act like entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Together, we can identify the right personalities across the entire spectrum of SMEs \u2013 from the industrial Mittelstand<\/em> and Hidden Champions to multinational corporations and start-ups. By not limiting ourselves to just one industry, we can unlock great potential.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Awards in the Executive Search category.<\/h4>\n

contagi proudly presents the awards for the Top Personnel Service Provider 2021 and 2022 in the category Executive Search by FOCUS-BUSINESS, Le Temps Handelszeitung and statista.<\/p>\n

Based on an independent data survey, contagi is one of the recommended personnel service providers in Germany and Switzerland. The following evaluation parameters, among others, were included: Assessments by HR managers in companies (candidate quality, service quality, price-performance ratio) and candidates (quality of job offers, communication, service quality).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Your personal contact partners<\/span><\/h6><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. Marcus Wittner<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Martin Stoll<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Philipp Neuefeind<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Ulf Genzel<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jennifer Bechthold<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Henryk Pieritz<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Knud Abraham<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Your personal contact partners<\/span><\/h6><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. Marcus Wittner<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Philipp Neuefeind<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Martin Stoll<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Ulf Genzel<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jennifer Bechthold<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Henryk Pieritz<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Knud Abraham<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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c\u00b2x \u2013 contagi <\/strong>Customer & <\/strong>Candidate Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Customer<\/h3>

We advise and support our clients during the process of systematic identification and qualitative selection of specialists and executives. Using our proven quality management process<\/strong> and innovative digital solutions<\/strong>, we work to fill key positions<\/strong> in our clients\u2019 organisations with high-quality candidates \u2013 as quickly as possible and with a fair, client-oriented pricing model<\/strong>. Not only do we understand the challenges for business leaders, we also speak their language and place value on familiarising ourselves with the respective business models or product worlds. For this reason, we place great value on maintaining a partnership-based and continuous dialogue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Candidate<\/h3>

For us, \u201cCandidate Experience\u201d is just as important as \u201cCustomer Experience\u201d: approaching candidates in a<\/strong> goal-oriented<\/strong>, well-prepared<\/strong> and well-researched<\/strong> way provides the basis for a trusting<\/strong> and candidate-oriented exchange<\/strong> throughout the entire application or even onboarding \/ initial training process. Candidates do not want standardised presentations of job profiles, they want an honest<\/strong> and, above all, well-founded exchange<\/strong> on the matter. To ensure such an exchange, our relationship with our clients (and candidates) must be characterised by a close, confidential consultation process and open communication. Only then can we deliver good impressions in highly competitive labour markets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Our executive search process<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>
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