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Match Recruitment

Match Recruitment is a specialist recruitment and selection firm focused on life sciences, food, and agribusiness across the Netherlands and Belgium. Founded in 2006 by Jos Douven, an experienced commercial leader with roots in agribusiness, food, and veterinary pharma, the firm matches highly educated candidates with bachelor or master degrees to impactful roles at mid, senior, and top management levels. The team combines deep sector knowledge in agriculture and horticulture, food and nutrition, biotechnology and chemistry, animal health, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices with a large binational network and a strong understanding of Dutch and Belgian business cultures. Clients engage Match Recruitment for permanent recruitment, temporary and interim assignments, and executive search delivered in close cooperation with AFL Executive Search, enabling coverage from specialist and commercial positions to executive and director appointments. Typical engagements include sales, marketing, management, technical and scientific roles for organizations ranging from innovative scale ups to established international companies. The firm emphasizes honest and open communication, speed and rigor, and keeping promises, while pursuing the ultimate click between employer and candidate. A structured and personal process blends targeted sourcing, thorough screening, and candidate coaching, supported by vacancy mailing and job alert tools to engage both active and passive talent. With love for and a background in food, land and horticulture, consultants stay current with developments in recruitment and in their core industries, and report a strong success rate, filling around 95 percent of vacancies. Based in Vilt Valkenburg aan de Geul and serving clients throughout the Benelux, Match Recruitment is committed to long term relationships that create win win outcomes and measurable value for both organizations and professionals.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtFarmingFood ProcessingFishing & AquacultureAutomotiveAerospaceDefense

HQVilt, Netherlands

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, internationally known as Radboud University, is a public research university based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with its main address at Houtlaan 4, 6525 XZ Nijmegen. The university presents a broad academic offering across bachelors, masters, pre-masters, and education for professionals, inviting prospective students and partners to explore its campus and programs through recurring events such as the Bachelor Open Day, the Master Open Day, and the Future Forward knowledge event. Its education portfolio spans the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medical sciences, with English-taught specialisations like the Research Masters in Philosophy track Ethics and Political Philosophy that engages real-world themes including climate change, social justice, public health, technology, and digitalization. Radboud is strongly research-driven, sharing outcomes and societal relevance through research news and public engagement. Illustrative items include work on biodiversity such as the reported long-term decline in hoverflies in Dutch forests and the activities of institutes like the Donders Institute, which fosters dialogue on topics at the interface of lived experience and data-driven research. The university community includes leading scholars and clinicians connected to Radboud university medical center, exemplified by expertise in nuclear medicine and cancer imaging, underscoring Radbouds strength in healthcare and life sciences. Radboud in to Languages supports secure and responsible use of machine translation, offering licensed solutions and post-editing to protect sensitive information while maintaining quality, reflecting the institutions broader commitment to privacy, safety, and academic integrity. Beyond degree education, Radboud provides training and courses for professionals, opportunities for external collaboration and facilities, and a lively agenda of lectures, promotions, and public events that connect science with society. With accessible information in Dutch and English and active outreach via social channels, Radboud University positions itself as a welcoming, research-intensive campus where students, staff, and partners work together to develop knowledge and create impact.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & CoachingPhysiciansHealthcare & Life SciencesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQNijmegen, Netherlands

Real Life Sciences

Real Life Sciences is a specialist workforce consultancy focused exclusively on the life sciences domain and part of SThree, the global STEM talent partner. Operating across the Netherlands with the backing of a worldwide network of 19 offices, the firm combines global reach with local market knowledge to connect top professionals with forward thinking organizations. Since 1998, Real has supported companies in pharma, biotechnology, medical technology, and food and nutrition with tailored talent solutions that span interim and secondment assignments, permanent recruitment, and project based delivery. Its consultants advise hiring teams on market insights and compliance, assemble multidisciplinary teams, and deliver project solutions that help clients scale R and D, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain capabilities. Real engages specialists across roles such as process engineers, quality engineers, GMP experts, R and D engineers, and supply chain planners, and supports both onsite and remote working models where appropriate. In 2024 alone, the business matched 2,518 specialists with new positions and partnered with 1,009 innovative organizations, reflecting a consistent focus on speed, quality, and long term relationships. For professionals, Real offers a transparent search experience that starts with understanding goals and requirements, then curates opportunities across interim and secondment, temp to perm, and direct hire pathways. For employers, Real provides scalable solutions from single hires to team builds and project delivery, underpinned by proven processes and a compliance first approach aligned with Dutch frameworks and guidance such as ABU and the DBA law. With dedicated practice coverage in biotech, pharma, medtech, and food and nutrition, Real Life Sciences is positioned to help organizations outpace tomorrow by securing the specialist talent they need today, while giving candidates access to impactful roles where they can make a difference. As part of SThree, Real can also mobilize global workforce solutions for complex multi market needs, ensuring consistent delivery standards and a partnership approach built on insight, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsVeterinaryFarmingFood Processing

HQNetherlands, Netherlands

Springstaff

Springstaff is a Netherlands based recruitment specialist focused on the intersection of healthcare and information technology, known locally as eHealth and Zorg & ICT. Operating from The Hague, the firm supports hospitals, care providers, laboratories, healthcare associations, and ICT service vendors that deliver solutions to the care sector. Springstaff manages the full recruitment and selection process for permanent hires and also mediates professionals for temporary and freelance contract assignments, combining quality, speed, and flexibility. Its consultants actively search across an established network, a curated talent pool, job boards, and social channels to identify candidates, and they conduct structured interviews, screening, and reference checks to assess both hard and soft skills. The team invests time to understand each candidates motivations, strengths, and ambitions beyond the CV, ensuring cultural and role fit before introducing profiles to clients and only with the candidates approval, underscoring a strong commitment to integrity and transparency. Typical roles include eHealth consultants, ICT managers, business analysts, application administrators (functional and technical), integration specialists, BI consultants, data specialists, information advisors, and project and program managers. Springstaffs approach is personal and partnership driven: it clarifies role context, team culture, and conditions with the client, prepares candidates for interviews, provides feedback loops throughout the process, and remains engaged after onboarding to support long term success. With many years dedicated to the healthcare IT niche, the firm has built a large and continuously growing community of practitioners and employers, allowing it to quickly match scarce talent to mission critical initiatives such as interoperability, EHR optimization, laboratory systems, data and analytics, and digital patient services. Clients benefit from market insight and targeted search in a narrow domain, while candidates gain access to timely opportunities and career guidance within a trusted specialist network.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQDen Haag, Netherlands

Salentijn Recruitment

Salentijn Recruitment is a specialist headhunting and recruitment boutique dedicated to the Animal Health and Nutrition markets. Led by veterinarian Chris Salentijn (DVM), the firm partners with animal pharma, diagnostics, feed, and veterinary care organizations across the Netherlands, the Benelux region, and wider Europe to appoint commercial, technical, and clinical talent. With deep sector knowledge and a direct search methodology, Salentijn Recruitment manages end to end assignments from brief through offer for permanent and executive roles, often on an exclusive basis. Recent mandates include Account Manager Young Animal Nutrition for Schils (part of the VanDrie Group), Senior Advisor Swine for Kippers Voeders, Product Manager Poultry Diagnostics for BioChek, Product Manager Ruminants Benelux, Area Veterinary Manager Ruminants and Account Manager Companion Animals for Zoetis, Account Manager Equine for Boehringer Ingelheim, as well as Clinic Manager and Companion Animal Veterinarian roles for veterinary care providers. The firm evaluates candidates for scientific rigor and commercial impact, aligning capabilities in veterinary medicine, nutrition, diagnostics, and on farm practice with client strategy and market dynamics. Clients benefit from transparent communication, targeted sourcing across international networks, and a consultative process that refines role scope, compensation, and onboarding to secure long term success. Candidates receive honest guidance, interview preparation, and market insights tailored to career stage, including transitions from practice to industry and steps from product specialist to product manager or from technical service to commercial leadership. Focused on quality and speed, Salentijn Recruitment delivers shortlists that balance expertise in ruminants, swine, and poultry with competencies in sales, product management, technical service, and leadership. From home office and field based roles to hybrid positions across Europe, the firm connects animal health innovators with professionals who drive growth, customer value, and better outcomes for animals and the producers who care for them.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingFarmingFood ProcessingFishing & AquacultureMedical DevicesHealthcare AdministrationMental Health Care

HQNetherlands, Netherlands

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, internationally known as the University of Groningen, is a research intensive university founded in 1614 and consistently ranked among the top 100 worldwide. From its vibrant base in the student city of Groningen, the university offers a full spectrum of education and research across 11 faculties, including Economics and Business, Behavioural and Social Sciences, Religion, Culture and Society, Arts, Medical Sciences, Law, Spatial Sciences, Philosophy, Science and Engineering, University College Groningen, and Campus Fryslan. Prospective students can explore Bachelors, Masters, Pre masters, PhD programmes, Exchange, and Summer and Winter Schools, with clear guidance for international applicants on Studielink registration, application fee payment, Progress Portal document submission, and, where relevant, immigration and housing arrangements. The university fosters open, collaborative scholarship through its Open Science initiative and a comprehensive Research Support Portal, complemented by a University Library network and a rich ecosystem of research centers and institutes. The Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI serves as a cross disciplinary hub under the banner Digital prosperity for all, while Schools for Science and Society connect academic expertise with societal challenges. Engagement with society and business includes a Language Centre, Center for Information Technology, Science Shops, Career Services, and avenues for collaboration with researchers, as well as a University Museum and public events. Students join an inclusive community representing over 120 nationalities, supported by practical resources, FAQs, and portals for study progress. Alumni stay connected through activities, magazines and newsletters, and opportunities to support education and research. The university regularly shares news, podcasts, and research stories, and invites talent to join its community via Work with us job opportunities. With top quality education, groundbreaking research, and deep ties to regional and global partners, the University of Groningen combines tradition and innovation to advance knowledge and contribute to society.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & CoachingE-Learning & Online EducationPhysiciansPharmaceuticalsBiotechnology

HQGroningen, Netherlands

SPRING SEARCH International

SPRING SEARCH International is a boutique recruitment partner that helps founders and leadership teams scale across borders by turning expansion intent into execution. Headquartered at the World Trade Center Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, the firm focuses on Life Sciences and Technology driven businesses that need the right leadership, regulatory, scientific, and commercial talent to win early in new markets. SPRING SEARCH delivers executive search, precise permanent recruitment, and interim management for mission critical roles where timing, ownership, and execution matter. The team works with international companies landing in the Netherlands and Dutch startups and scale ups expanding into the EU, the UK, and the United States, bringing cross border know how and a personal, hands on approach. Before hiring begins, SPRING SEARCH helps pressure test plans, clarify decision rights and accountability, and sharpen role definitions so that the first hires are a win rather than a lesson. When it is time to move, they execute searches with speed, rigor, and cultural fit, treating every leadership hire as the high stakes decision it is. To remove operational hurdles, the firm partners with Briddge for legal setup, payroll, compliance, and Employer of Record services, enabling clients to onboard international hires compliantly and without distraction. Clients value the firm’s ability to translate strategy into the right sequencing of roles, then source and secure leaders and specialists who can build momentum from day one. With placements across Europe and the US and a commitment to transparency and care, SPRING SEARCH combines executive level judgment with diligent research and candidate development to build core teams that become a strong foundation for sustainable growth. The result is a repeatable, internationally minded hiring process that reduces risk, accelerates market entry, and strengthens leadership clarity at each step of expansion.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentPayrolling/EORHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQSchiphol, Netherlands

Thema Group

Thema Group is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to the Life Sciences domain, trusted by clients and professionals across Europe since 1989. From offices in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, the firm focuses on building lasting matches in Biotechnology, Healthcare IT, Laboratory Technology, Medical Technology and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Its consultants bring first hand market experience and adopt a collaborative, involved and accountable approach, aligning business needs and candidate ambitions with equal care. Thema Group supports organizations ranging from innovative start ups to established multinationals, delivering search and selection services for white collar and leadership roles across the Life Sciences value chain, including Research and Development, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Service Engineering, Product and Application Specialists, Sales, Marketing and General Management. The firm emphasizes both technical competence and cultural fit, combining structured assessments with rigorous screening to present shortlists that are thorough, transparent and tailored to each assignment. Drawing on a deep network, targeted e recruitment, database insights and market mapping, Thema Group manages each project with clear communication and measurable milestones, ensuring that clients gain timely access to qualified talent and that candidates experience a respectful and informative process. The company also provides assessments to enhance hiring decisions, offering additional perspective on competencies, behaviors and potential so stakeholders can act with confidence. With decades of sector focus and multilingual reach, Thema Group is committed to realizing the goals of all parties by matching skills and personalities that thrive together. Its track record of partnerships across Life Sciences reflects a consistent commitment to quality, integrity and results, making Thema Group a reliable long term partner for permanent and executive level appointments in a rapidly evolving market.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCloud ComputingTelecomAutomotive

HQDiepenbeek, Netherlands

Sonsbach

Founded in 2013 and based in Arnhem, Sonsbach is a Dutch recruitment and HR advisory firm led by Lex van der Giessen. The company helps organizations fill hard-to-hire positions at the intersection of healthcare and professional services, with a strong focus on advisory and ICT firms serving the care market as well as pharmaceutical companies, medical device suppliers, health insurers, umbrella bodies, and public organizations. Sonsbach delivers permanent recruitment, executive search, and interim recruitment solutions, taking full ownership of end-to-end hiring projects and, when required, operating seamlessly under the clients own brand and within their processes. Its approach blends rigorous direct search, targeted labor market communication, and a deep, trusted network spanning hospitals and care providers, insurers, and healthcare-focused service firms to identify, engage, and assess the right talent with discretion and speed. Beyond search and selection, Sonsbach acts as regisseur for external hiring, strengthening vendor management, compliance, KPI discipline, cost control, and stakeholder satisfaction across temporary workforce programs, and advising on inhuur governance and process optimization. The firm also performs diagnostic audits of the full recruitment process and employer messaging, writes and edits vacancy adverts and role profiles, and trains hiring teams to conduct structured, fair, and candidate-friendly interviews that improve selection quality and candidate experience. Sonsbach has delivered interim and project assignments such as regional traineeship program setup and execution, candidate and employee journey optimization for staffing operations in mental health, disability care and security, and HR transitions, translating market insights into practical policy, procedures, and standardized recruitment and onboarding. With more than two decades of experience across the healthcare ecosystem and business services, Sonsbach combines consulting rigor with hands-on delivery to shorten time to fill, raise quality of hire, protect confidentiality when roles cannot be publicized, and support clients nationwide across the Netherlands.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtMSPHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

The Search

The Search is a Dutch recruitment consultancy based in Amsterdam that focuses on putting people in the right position so they can make a difference for their organizations. Operating since 2007, the firm combines a strong network, top level market visibility, and a no nonsense mindset to deliver tailor made hiring solutions. Its core offering covers permanent recruitment for professionals, senior management, and directors, complemented by executive search and interim management across functions such as HR, recruitment, sales, technology, operations, ICT, and finance. Through a flexible recruitment partner model, The Search embeds dedicated recruiters at client sites for one or more days per week, uniting the advantages of in house hiring with the quality, speed, and reach of a specialist agency to reduce cost and elevate selection quality and employer brand. The team is known for asking the right questions, listening closely, and taking decisive, proactive ownership to complete assignments with the desired outcome. Beyond hiring execution, The Search provides advisory support on inclusion and diversity, candidate experience, referral programs, employer branding, analytics, and ATS optimization, and offers coaching and application training that helps candidates present their strengths with confidence. The firm recruits exclusively for reputable organizations with positive impact, particularly in areas of health, social responsibility, and innovation, and it has a strong track record across life sciences, technology, and engineering led environments. Whether sourcing a scientist for assay and downstream process development, an ICT leader, or a senior procurement specialist, The Search brings discipline, discretion, and persistence to every mandate, building long term relationships with clients and candidates and ensuring each placement contributes to lasting results.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCloud ComputingTelecomAutomotive

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

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