Your executive search
for China
Your HR consultancy
for China
We help you identify top-tier executives who drive your long-term success.
Securing the right leadership in China is demanding: High costs for misplacements, cultural barriers, and uncertainty about long-term success – amplified by 8,000 kilometers of distance.
We create reliable results through a proven selection process backed by 20 years of on-site experience. With deep intercultural expertise, we identify leaders who align with your company both professionally and personally.
Misplacements in China: more than a cost factor – a strategic risk
Facing a critical decision for your China business? We understand the complexity and urgency of your situation:
- time-critical replacement: A key executive resigned unexpectedly? Every week of vacancy costs momentum, market share, and unsettles your team.
- long-term succession planning: A wave of retirements is approaching? Secure continuity and future growth without risking operational disruptions.
- transformation change: Your organization is reorientating proactively for growth or reactively due to performance or compliance challenges?
Each of these scenarios carries strategic risk far beyond recruitment costs. Wrong decisions lead to friction losses, demotivation, reputational damage, and ultimately endanger your China strategy.
Choosing executives based on generic job descriptions often leads to costly recruitment cycles wasting time, money, and market opportunities. Hesitation costs the future.
The Steinkellner method: we don’t search for resumes – we find strategic leaders for your goals
An impressive CV is not enough. Where standard search processes fall short in China, the Steinkellner Method goes further: We focus not only on qualifications, but on measurable impact – ensuring outcomes that move your business forward.
- guaranteed intercultural fit: Our two-stage European-Chinese selection process ensures leadership that aligns both culturally and strategically minimizing risk and accelerating implementation.
- unique insight efficiency: Video-based candidate presentations secure a well-founded impression independent of time – saving resources and enabling better decisions.
- active process control planning security: We actively manage the process with a project-based mindset providing clear structure, reliable oversight, and full transparency.
- uncompromising quality transparency: You receive honest assessments – avoiding missteps and enabling sustainable decisions
Methodical clarity and structure in executive recruitment
Our structured, experience-based methodology is designed to mitigate risk and drive success. This structured approach ensures an efficient and successful placement process:
- in-depth analysis understanding: We analyze your current situation, advise on the specific need, and offer a candid initial evaluation.
- definition of impact goals: Together, we define the concrete outcomes your executive is expected to deliver.
- calibration profile alignment: Using benchmark profiles, we ensure precise understanding of your expectations and needs.
- structured search selection: Our teams in Europe and China initiate a targeted direct search and conduct a two-stage intercultural evaluation process.
- presentation decision: We present carefully selected candidates, accompany your interviews, and guide you until the final choice between top-tier talents.
- guided onboarding: Our commitment does not end with the contract. We remain at your side to ensure a smooth and successful integration.
Your result: sustainable success through hand-selected executives
The Steinkellner Method is designed to ensure your long-term success and strategic certainty. Through our success alliance, you gain:
- tailor-made leaders: Carefully selected executives who understand your vision, embody your culture, and drive your goals forward.
- strategic security: End costly recruitment cycles, avoid unnecessary risks, and secure your growth.
- time and resource efficiency: Our systematic process frees up your capacity to focus on strategic priorities that truly matter.
- genuine freedom of choice: We present at least two top-tier candidates – empowering a truly strategic decision.
Manfred
Steinkellner
Founder of Steinkellner China Search, trained technician, experienced project manager, and your personal success architect for China.
Languages: German, English, Chinese
Office Innsbruck
Judith
Krauss
Expert for top executives tailored to your business needs across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Languages: German, English
Ru
Wang
Senior Talent Manager Head of Shanghai Office
Experienced HR consultant and multilingual talent with high implementation skills. Head of our five-member team in Shanghai
Languages: Chinese, German, English
Office Shanghai
Julia
Yeo
Talented mediator between Europe and Asia with a sharp instinct for your company’s needs.
Languages: Chinese, English
„Steinkellner China Search is now a long-standing cooperation partner of DEWETRON GmbH – with complete success and great satisfaction.
This cooperation took place from the very beginning with extensive preparation, a strong understanding of the requirements of our business – we were presented with candidates with an optimal requirement profile – as well as the excellent additional component of being able to think into the other person’s mind and, as a result, to act accordingly.
Even in this challenging time with COVID-19, the recruiting process in cooperation with Steinkellner China Search was very professional. Instead of face-to-face interviews, video calls for an initial interview were conducted very promptly and flexibly.“
„Although the requirements profile changed several times, Steinkellner China Search reacted quickly and presented us with very good plant manager candidates in line with the requirements profile. 9 months after recruitment, I can say that I am very satisfied with the choice and performance of the candidate.“
„The intensive consultation from start to finish was very important to me. Not everyone can do that. I was also surprised by the speed with which we found the right candidate.“
„We now finally have an unbeatable man on site with whom we can really make progress – even though we never got to meet him in person despite coronavirus.
The new plant manager was the best personnel decision of 2021!“
„They provided us with two perfect candidates for the final selection and our joint venture partner was able to choose one of them. Just as we had planned in advance.“
Let’s take the first step together: Let’s talk.
Filling key positions in China is strategically crucial. Act now, because vacancies cost market opportunities.
As a boutique consultancy, we ensure the highest quality through intense focus and close guidance by Manfred Steinkellner personally – our capacities are therefore limited.
If you’re ready for a sustainable solution, let’s begin the dialogue: