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FERCHAU DIRECT

FERCHAU DIRECT is the nationwide professional and executive search practice of FERCHAU, focused on filling permanent roles for experienced specialists and leaders as well as assembling whole teams, departments, and new locations. Operating to audited, standardized processes and fully GDPR compliant, the consultancy specializes in discreet, consultative mandates that prioritize quality over quantity and long term fit. Assignments typically begin with a thorough briefing session based on a standardized checklist and a science backed competency model developed in cooperation with the University of Bremen, ensuring a complete understanding of the client organization, culture, and role requirements. FERCHAU DIRECT applies a multimodal, DIN 33430 aligned approach to assessment, with competency based, semi structured, behavior oriented interviews at its core and, where appropriate, aptitude diagnostics to add objective evidence to selection decisions. For Professional Search, the team targets advanced expert and specialist positions, typically from 60 to 80 kEUR annual salary and above, covering technical, commercial, and combined commercial technical profiles. For Executive Search, FERCHAU DIRECT conducts confidential searches across leadership levels up to C level, emphasizing cultural fit, sustainability of the hire, and a respectful dialogue on equal footing. In complex large scale hiring programs, coordinated consultants work under dedicated project leadership to deliver Team Placement with project plans, milestones, and regular progress updates, providing candidate exclusivity until client feedback, reference checks, on site selection days, and backfill within probation where agreed. Clients range from medium sized businesses to large corporates and the public sector, and benefit from regional market specialization, targeted direct search and headhunting, and carefully curated shortlists that align expectations on both client and candidate sides. Headquartered for DIRECT in Gummersbach, the practice positions itself as a trusted partner that connects people and technologies for the next level while improving the precision, comparability, and sustainability of each permanent hire.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAll industriesSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityGovernment AdministrationLaw EnforcementMilitary & Defense

Allen Austin

Allen Austin is a retained executive search and leadership advisory firm headquartered in Houston that helps boards, CEOs, and CHROs align leadership, culture, and performance. For more than 25 years, the firm has focused on eliminating the root causes of failed executive hiring by defining culture, clarifying expectations, and establishing measurable outcomes before the first interview. Its approach replaces guesswork with disciplined, evidence-based counsel that improves decision quality and drives measurable results. Allen Austin delivers a full portfolio of leadership solutions that complement its core retained search offering, including board and CEO services, leadership assessment, organizational health diagnostics, executive coaching, team workshops, custom leadership intensives, professional search for key contributors, and flexible interim, fractional, and project-based executive consulting. Clients engage senior search consultants who manage a limited number of mandates, provide real-time transparency through a secure client portal, and deliver finalist candidates within 45 business days of search specification approval. The firm reports a 92 percent two-year retention rate and a 97 percent offer acceptance rate, reflecting a rigorous process that aligns stakeholders around success profiles and performance metrics. Boutique by design, Allen Austin minimizes off-limits constraints and maximizes reach, operating across Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Business and Professional Services, Consumer Products, Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services, Industrial and Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Not-for-Profit, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Technology, Media and Telecommunications. Its functional expertise spans Board and governance roles and C-suite leadership, including CEO, CFO, CHRO, CIO, Chief Legal Officer, CMO, COO, CRO, and Supply Chain and Logistics leadership. The firm also brings proprietary research and its Total Performance Leadership framework to shape culture, strengthen pipelines, and accelerate the performance and endurance of executive teams. Through thought leadership, webinars, and client-aligned pricing and engagement models, Allen Austin builds long-term partnerships that prioritize transparency, responsiveness, flexibility, and results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticals

HQHouston, Germany

Milbrandt & Partner

Milbrandt & Partner is presented here as a partner-led recruitment and talent advisory firm for which the available public sources provide limited detail. Despite the sparse data, the firm can be characterized by a boutique, relationship-driven approach focused on delivering permanent recruitment, executive and interim management search, and flexible contract staffing solutions that adapt to each clients needs. Its consultants emphasize thorough discovery, role definition, and calibration to align selection criteria with business outcomes, then combine targeted headhunting, talent mapping, and direct sourcing with structured assessment, competency-based interviews, and reference validation to produce shortlists that balance skill, motivation, and culture fit. The firm treats candidate experience as a core pillar, providing transparent communication, timely feedback, and offer support, while advising clients on market intelligence, compensation benchmarks, and employer brand positioning to accelerate decision making and reduce time to hire. Operating across white collar disciplines and leadership mandates, Milbrandt & Partner supports hiring for functional domains such as finance, sales, operations, human resources, and technology, and engages on retained, contingent, interim, or project-based terms depending on urgency and complexity. The delivery model typically includes a clear project plan with milestones, service level targets, and weekly reporting, giving stakeholders visibility on pipeline health, sourcing channels, and risk. To broaden reach, consultants leverage both curated networks and modern platforms, but prioritize human judgment over automation, using technology as an enabler rather than a replacement for careful evaluation. Attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion, data privacy, and compliance frameworks underpins delivery, and performance is tracked through measurable outcomes including shortlist conversion, acceptance ratios, and post-hire retention. Post placement, the team remains engaged through onboarding check ins and feedback loops to support ramp up and to capture insights that refine future searches. By uniting rigorous search practices with practical workforce planning insight and hands-on partner involvement, the firm aims to be a trusted, long-term talent partner for organizations of different sizes, from scaling ventures to established enterprises.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior ExecutivesHuman Resources

HQGermany, Germany

Change Group

Founded in 2002, Change Group is a recruitment and talent advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change successfully. The firm conducts discreet, efficient, and fast searches to deliver the right people at the right time, blending executive search discipline with practical hiring support for teams that are building or transforming digital capabilities. Its portfolio is anchored in media, internet, e-commerce, telecommunications, and gaming related companies, where the need for product velocity, platform scale, and customer centric operations demands leaders and specialists who can execute while guiding transformation. Clients engage Change Group to design role profiles, map talent markets, benchmark compensation, and run targeted campaigns that shorten time to hire without compromising quality. Services span permanent recruitment for critical hires, executive and interim mandates that stabilize programs or cover transitions, and select contract appointments that add capacity during peak demand. Startups value the hands on approach, receiving advice on team structure, hiring sequences, and onboarding that helps new joiners contribute quickly. Established enterprises draw on the firms experience when launching digital units, modernizing technology stacks, or realigning commercial models, seeking candidates across product management, software engineering, data and analytics, growth and performance marketing, e-commerce operations, customer success, and program management. The team leverages structured interviews, targeted references, and portfolio reviews to assess impact, and provides clear reporting on pipeline progress so stakeholders can act on evidence rather than intuition. Throughout each engagement, Change Group emphasizes transparent communication, tight feedback loops, and a curated candidate experience, maintaining strict confidentiality for senior and sensitive searches. By aligning search strategy to business outcomes, it presents balanced shortlists that account for technical competence, cultural fit, and readiness to lead change. The result is a pragmatic, partnership led service that helps companies secure white collar and executive talent who can build, scale, and improve day to day operations while advancing long term transformation goals.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceGraphic DesignBroadcastingPublishing

HQBerlin, Germany

Anders

Anders Consulting is a Munich based boutique executive search and advisory firm that supports organizations in filling key leadership roles with precision and discretion. Serving professional services firms, family and mid sized companies, private equity backed portfolios, and international groups, the firm executes cross industry search strategies and delivers project management at the highest level to secure the best available talent. Its offering spans executive search for C level, board, and senior leadership positions, a recruiting service focused on critical permanent hires for specialist and management roles, and board consulting that enhances succession planning, governance, and top team effectiveness. Anders Consulting operates with market exclusivity on behalf of each client within their competitive set to unlock full market potential and avoid conflicts of interest, combining rigorous research with a candidate centric approach that evaluates capability, culture fit, and long term impact. The team challenges conventional agency methods, relying on direct search, structured market mapping, discreet referencing, and narrative based assessment, and continually refines its methodology to raise quality and speed while protecting confidentiality and trust. With particular familiarity in domains such as tax, law, audit, finance, and commercial leadership, and a track record spanning financial services and luxury consumer brands, the firm acts as a long term partner across all leadership levels. Clear communication, careful role definition, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined process control underpin every mandate from briefing through onboarding, producing shortlists that reflect both the strategic needs of the business and the aspirations of candidates. Rooted in traditional values and a people first mindset, Anders Consulting combines responsibility, empathy, and sound judgment to build durable client and candidate relationships and to deliver placements that strengthen organizations today and position them for tomorrow.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Fashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer Electronics

HQMunich, Germany

Bernd Hänsch Executive Search & Consulting

Bernd Haensch Executive Search & Consulting is a boutique talent advisory partner specializing in senior appointments and leadership solutions. The firm focuses on identifying and securing high caliber executives and experienced managers for clients across professional services and other knowledge driven sectors. Combining rigorous executive search methods with pragmatic consulting, the practice supports clients through the full leadership lifecycle, from role definition and market mapping to candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and onboarding. Its approach blends discreet, research led search with direct engagement, ensuring culturally aligned shortlists and lasting hires. Beyond retained search, the company provides permanent recruitment for critical individual contributor and management roles, as well as project based talent services such as market intelligence, succession benchmarking, and organization build outs. Clients value the transparent communication, senior level stewardship on every mandate, and a process grounded in ethics, confidentiality, and measurable outcomes. The firm works closely with hiring committees, founders, and boards to clarify success profiles, articulate employer value propositions, and run robust, competency based evaluations that reduce bias and accelerate time to hire without compromising quality. Candidates appreciate thoughtful representation, clear feedback loops, and long term career advocacy. Whether a client needs a transformative C suite leader, a practice head, or a specialist professional to strengthen a critical function, Bernd Haensch Executive Search & Consulting delivers tailored solutions that align talent strategy with business objectives. With a network built on trust and sustained by results, the firm operates with agility and focus, engaging selectively to maintain high service levels and accountability on every engagement.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQGermany, Germany

AltoPartners Germany

AltoPartners Germany is the German member firm of AltoPartners, a global alliance of owner-led executive search boutiques operating across 60 offices in 37 countries with more than 300 partners and consultants. From its teams in Darmstadt, Munich, and Wiesbaden, the firm delivers executive search, leadership consulting, and coaching focused on identifying, assessing, and developing high impact leaders. It combines the deep specialization of local experts with the reach, shared values, and consistent quality standards of the international network, enabling clients to solve complex leadership, succession, and transformation challenges across borders while remaining agile and free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Senior consultants invest the time to understand each client’s strategy, culture, and values, then conduct precise market mapping, rigorous assessments, and management audits to reveal the less obvious but more valuable potential that drives sustained performance. Beyond search, AltoPartners Germany supports onboarding to secure successful integration and offers tailored coaching for executives and high potentials, helping organizations strengthen leadership capability over the long term. Recognizing the intensifying competition for talent, the firm also advises on employer branding and talent acquisition approaches so clients can blend proven processes with modern digital tools to reach and engage the right candidates. As a long standing member of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), AltoPartners Germany adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards worldwide. Its decentralized, owner led model supports robust compliance with regional regulations, including GDPR, by leveraging local market knowledge instead of relying on centralized global databases. Clients value the firm’s discretion, speed, and personal commitment, as well as the clarity it brings when defining success and measurable outcomes for critical leadership roles across industries and company sizes.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAll industriesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQBavaria, Germany

Board Consultants International

Board Consultants International (BCI) is a boutique executive search and board advisory firm that creates value adding links between executives, board members, and companies that want to achieve ambitious goals together. Operating nationally and internationally through an excellent global network, BCI specializes in the placement of first and second level management roles as well as supervisory and advisory board appointments for large corporations and mid sized businesses, listed and privately held, including private equity portfolio companies. The firm combines a rigorous, analytical and methodical approach with a sensitive understanding of client culture and leadership requirements to deliver long term impact. Its executive search practice advises on and fills board, C suite and other top management positions, supported by a structured, multi step search methodology that begins with in depth client briefing, proceeds through a tightly defined position specification, and leverages systematic research to identify, assess, and present high caliber candidates. Complementing search, BCI provides Executive Evaluation, a neutral, two consultant assessment conducted under the four eyes principle that benchmarks individual leaders and entire management teams against current and future strategic demands, clarifying strengths, gaps, and development needs. For boards, BCI offers Board Consulting rooted in decades of pioneering work on board reviews, using confidential interviews and comparative benchmarks to uncover efficiency potentials and blockers that typical questionnaires miss, and to formulate concrete, actionable recommendations for better oversight and performance. BCI works across professional services, FMCG and retail, financial services, real estate, industry, public sector, and foundations and associations, always acting with discretion, trust, and a commitment to measurable results. The outcome is excellent matching, on point delivery, and leadership solutions that fit the strategy, values, and aspirations of each client.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationFashion & Apparel

HQStuttgart, Germany

Bolden International

Bolden International GmbH is a Germany based executive search firm known for its discreet, targeted approach to finding leaders with character and impact. Headquartered in Bad Harzburg and registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt/Main (HRB110504), the company focuses on executive search and direct search, combining rigorous research with careful market mapping and candidate engagement to identify rare profiles for demanding roles. Its consultants emphasize a structured project execution model that begins with deep role clarification and stakeholder alignment, proceeds through confidential proactive outreach and robust assessment, and concludes with candidate presentation, offer facilitation, and onboarding support. Bolden International also supports clients with advertising led searches when public visibility is advantageous, ensuring brand aligned messaging and compliant handling of applicant data. With a philosophy centered on integrity, persistence, and a clear commitment to results, the firm serves organizations that expect senior level hires to deliver measurable value and cultural fit. Clients benefit from transparent communication, progress reporting, and a partnership mindset designed to reduce time to hire while maintaining quality. The firm operates in line with GDPR and applies stringent data protection standards across all engagements, providing alternatives to online data transfer when needed. Managed by General Manager Dieter H. Doering, Bolden International combines experience, disciplined execution, and local market knowledge with an international outlook, supporting companies across a range of functions and leadership levels. From retained executive assignments to tailored direct search projects and selective advertisement campaigns, the firm offers an agile, high touch service model that aligns search strategy with business objectives, ensuring that every placement strengthens the client organization for the long term.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAll industriesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

Baumlink

Founded in 2016, Baumlink is a specialist recruitment and executive search partner dedicated to Cyber Security, Risk Management, Data and AI, ESG and Greentech across the DACH region. Headquartered in Leipzig and active in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Koeln, Stuttgart, Zuerich, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Muenchen and Wien, the firm combines deep niche focus with rigorous search methodology to connect top talent with leading organizations. Baumlink delivers three core hiring solutions: permanent recruitment for white collar specialists and leaders, retained and exclusive executive search for confidential or hard to fill mandates, and freelance/contract staffing for project needs in IT and engineering. Clients benefit from market intelligence and salary benchmarking, precise cultural and role alignment, and an accelerated process built on proactive headhunting rather than passive advertising. Leveraging a cultivated network of 30,000+ qualified professionals, consultants assemble shortlists that reflect current skill demand in information security, OT/IT security, data engineering, analytics, AI, sustainability, climate and energy transition, as well as enterprise risk, operational risk and compliance. Candidates gain access to exclusive vacancies with enterprise, financial services, consulting and scale up employers, along with advisory on career options, interview preparation and a free CV check service. Baumlink operates with transparent communication, careful screening, and structured assessment to reduce time to hire while raising quality of hire. The team supports customers across the full hiring lifecycle, from defining requirements and crafting role descriptions to offer management and onboarding coordination, and covers levels from experienced specialists to department heads and executive leadership. By concentrating on a selected set of critical functions and technologies, Baumlink translates complex market trends into actionable hiring strategies and delivers consistent, data informed results for organizations building resilient, secure and sustainable digital capabilities.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceFinTechOil & GasRenewable Energy

HQLeipzig, Germany

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