KNPNT Flex

KNPNT B.V. presents itself as boutique headhunters for the duurzame voedingsmiddelenindustrie, the sustainable food industry. It is a wervingsbureau based in Arnhem with more than 20 years of experience, focused on recruiting professionals for that one industry effectively. The company is direct about how it differs from other search firms: it says it is not the normal kind of headhunter that begins work from a functieomschrijving, a job description. Instead it starts from the client's strategy and capacity planning, and finds the people who can actually execute those plans at the right moment. A client quoted on the site, the HR manager of Deli Home, puts the same point back to them, saying they need no job description because KNPNT can translate the company's strategy into the people who will realise it.

The practice covers four disciplines within the food industry, and KNPNT matches both professionals and management across all of them. Food technology is the technical core. Quality management covers the regulatory and standards side that food manufacturers cannot compromise on. Commerce takes in international sales and marketing. Supply chain completes the set. The common thread is a thorough working knowledge of the food industry, which the company presents as the reason it can align a candidate to a strategy rather than to a list of requirements. Other clients quoted include the CFO of Stella Fietsen, who describes reading a KNPNT proposal as unwrapping a present, and the HR manager of Bruynzeel Storage Systems, who notes that a difficult vacancy still got filled.

KNPNT works from Velperplein 23-25 in Arnhem, in the east of the Netherlands, and Frans Hoekman is the named contact for the business. The site is published in Dutch and carries the company's current vacancies alongside its own story and a list of the companies it has worked with. Clients and candidates reach KNPNT by telephone on +31 6 30723514 or by email to [email protected].