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Flexfirm

Flexfirm is a boutique Dutch recruitment and coaching practice based in Hilversum that unites headhunting with career development to deliver lasting results for the communications field. Founded and led by Vincent Mispelblom Beyer, the firm has more than 25 years of experience placing talent at advertising and communication agencies as well as in-house marketing and brand teams at advertisers. Flexfirm recruits across the full spectrum of creative and commercial roles, including art directors, copywriters, strategists, designers, account managers, producers, and digital specialists, from rising talent to senior leadership up to managing director level. The approach is personal and value driven: rather than competing in a war for talent, Flexfirm focuses on what makes teams thrive, aligning skills, ambition, and culture so both employer and professional gain long term value. Clients have included well known agencies and brands such as TBWA eBOKO, Dentsu Creative, DEPT, Havas, Ogilvy, Publicis, Aegon, Heineken, Hunkemoller, KLM, The Sting, and others, reflecting a strong network across the Dutch and Belgian communications market. Alongside permanent recruitment and executive search, Flexfirm offers structured career coaching for individuals and organizations. Using a practical six step method (Richting Werkplezier: the Six Steps Method), coaching targets clear behavioral change, supports sustainable employability, and improves workplace well being and performance. For employers, this integrated offer translates into sharper briefs, rigorous portfolio and capability assessment, discreet outreach to passive talent, meticulous shortlisting, and hands on guidance through interviews, offer negotiation, and onboarding, complemented by optional coaching that accelerates integration and retention. For candidates, it means honest feedback, clarity about drivers and strengths, and a partner who helps navigate choices to build a career with energy and fulfillment. Whether hiring a complete creative team or a single senior leader, Flexfirm is known for professionalism, calm persistence, and a genuine, human touch that consistently results in successful matches.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPODigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsBroadcastingPublishingOnline Media

Commerce Network

Commerce Network is a Dutch recruitment firm specialized in marketing, digital, and e-commerce talent. Founded in 2021 and based in Amsterdam at the Olympisch Stadion, the agency connects employers, candidates, and interim professionals through a highly personal, content-driven approach. The team brings more than a decade of experience across the digital commerce ecosystem and maintains an active network of over 30,000 professionals, enabling rapid, high-quality shortlists that balance hard skills with culture fit. Commerce Network delivers permanent search and interim contracting solutions for roles such as performance and growth marketing, CRM, content and brand management, marketplace management, e-commerce management, and leadership positions including heads and directors across marketing and digital. The firm operates on clear agreements, commitment, and often exclusivity, which allows for focus, speed, and transparent communication throughout the process, from briefing and search to interview management, offer negotiation, and aftercare. Clients range from consumer and retail brands to digital scale-ups and international organizations, with references including Domino's Pizza, Stoov, and Oot Granola. As an active contributor to the community, Commerce Network publishes the E-commerce Monitor, a data-driven report that analyzes hundreds of companies and provides practical insights across strategy, logistics, marketing and sales, product, technology, customer service, people and organization, and data and compliance, tailored to different growth phases. Rooted in the belief that commerce is the driving force behind successful organizations, Commerce Network positions itself as the connector of people, fostering long-term relationships and delivering measurable hiring outcomes for both permanent and interim needs in a bilingual Dutch and English market context.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer Electronics

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

CareerTeam

CareerTeam is a data driven recruitment and executive search consultancy founded in 2011, focused on helping organizations build high performing digital, technology, and leadership teams across Europe. With more than 180 employees and offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and France, the firm combines sector expertise with proprietary matching algorithms and machine learning to deliver fast, high quality shortlists. CareerTeam partners with scale ups, corporates, and digital leaders to execute searches ranging from C level roles such as CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CMO, and CHRO to critical technology and product positions including software developers, data scientists, AI and machine learning engineers, cloud and cybersecurity specialists, ERP and SAP consultants, IT architects, and product owners, as well as digital marketing leaders across SEO, PPC, automation, analytics, and social. Its consultants advise clients through the full hiring lifecycle, from market mapping and salary benchmarking to defining profiles, structuring teams, strengthening employer branding, search and selection, and onboarding support. Drawing on an international network and deep understanding of European talent markets, CareerTeam serves customers in technology, e commerce and consumer goods, telecom, financial services, media and entertainment, energy and utilities, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and engineering and manufacturing, consistently delivering scarce digital and transformation talent. The firm emphasizes speed and precision, offering a personal, consultative approach supported by robust data and tooling, and committing to rapid delivery timelines so clients can secure the right candidate typically within 30 days. Representative clients include global technology brands and consumer leaders, and testimonials highlight successful placements of CIOs, senior software engineers, product owners, and managing directors. From Amsterdam to Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich, and Paris, CareerTeam operates as a single cross border team dedicated to matching visionary leaders and expert practitioners with organizations navigating digital growth and change.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic Relations

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

Finest People Amsterdam

Finest People Amsterdam is a specialized recruitment consultancy based in the Netherlands that connects companies with high impact digital, marketing, and e commerce talent. Operating as a boutique search partner, the firm focuses on permanent hires, targeted executive search for senior roles, and selective contract placements when clients need flexible expertise. Its consultants work in niche verticals such as performance marketing, paid media, SEO and content, CRM and marketing automation, analytics, conversion optimization, product marketing, marketplace and e commerce operations, martech, and commercial go to market roles across sales and customer success. Clients range from venture backed startups and scale ups to digital agencies and established enterprise brands undergoing digital transformation. The team leverages direct headhunting, talent mapping, and an active referral network to identify and engage candidates who are often not on the open market, while maintaining a candidate first approach that emphasizes career advisory, transparent feedback, and long term relationship building. For employers, Finest People Amsterdam provides market insights, compensation and benefits benchmarking, process design to reduce time to hire, shortlists built on capability and cultural alignment, and hands on support across interviews, offers, and onboarding. Delivery models include contingent search for speed and coverage, retained or exclusive search for priority and depth, and contract solutions for project based needs. The firm partners closely with hiring managers and founders to clarify role outcomes, assess competencies, and build diverse shortlists, helping organizations hire faster and more predictably across the Benelux and beyond. By combining specialist knowledge with rigorous sourcing and straightforward communication, Finest People Amsterdam aims to deliver consistently strong hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer Electronics

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

Found UX

Found UX is a Netherlands based UX recruitment specialist that connects result driven organizations with high performing UX talent across permanent and freelance engagements. Led by Roy van Balen, a hiring partner with 20 years of hands on experience in UX, UX/UI and Product design and several years in UX staffing, the firm applies practitioner level insight to identify, qualify, and present one outstanding candidate at a time. Clients engage Found UX to reduce noise and speed up hiring, benefiting from a process that often results in the first or second candidate being the right match. For permanent hiring, coverage focuses on the Randstad region, while interim and freelance requests are supported across the Netherlands, serving teams in and around Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht. The approach is end to end: after an initial UX hiring call, Found UX runs a thorough vacancy intake, drafts or refines the job brief, publishes roles on LinkedIn jobs, the Found UX LinkedIn company page and personal page, the in house UX vacancy alert list, and the Found UX website, then actively sources, screens, and interviews candidates before submitting a single, well argued recommendation. With over 300 UX designers placed, assignments span in house product organizations and digital agencies, including fintech and SaaS providers, iOS app publishers, comparison platforms, and creative and digital agencies. For permanent recruitment the model is a one time fee without a retainer, and for interim placements terms and rates are made clear up front. Found UX specializes in roles such as UX Designer, Product Designer, UI/UX Designer, Experience Designer, Lead Designer, and Creative Lead, and supports UX, Product, Tech, and HR leaders who want a streamlined, expert led hiring process. The firm emphasizes rigorous qualification, clear communication on availability and start dates for freelancers, and a pragmatic, results oriented methodology shaped by deep domain expertise.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAdvertisingJournalismGraphic Design

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

Jobbuilders

Jobbuilders is a Dutch recruitment and talent acquisition specialist based in Amsterdam that connects technology, engineering, and marketing professionals with organizations across the Netherlands. As a Werving & Selectie bureau, the firm focuses on high quality permanent recruitment while also delivering flexible secondment and temporary solutions tailored to changing business needs. Their consultants specialize deeply in the IT domain and speak the language of developers, engineers, and digital professionals. Jobbuilders supports a broad spectrum of IT roles including backend and frontend developers, mobile developers, product owners, scrum masters, software testers, technical leads, software architects, system and network engineers, infrastructure architects, project managers, application administrators, and IT management. Beyond IT, the company also recruits within techniek and marketing disciplines, addressing needs that range from industrial and electrical engineering to digital marketing, content, and design talent. For clients, Jobbuilders provides an engaged, consultative process that starts with clarifying objectives and hiring criteria, continues with targeted search across their network and talent database, and results in a shortlist of vetted candidates who match skills, culture, and ambition. They handle candidate engagement, screening, and coordination to ensure a smooth and timely hiring process. For candidates, Jobbuilders offers guidance on the next step in their career, from open applications and job alerts to interview and application tips, with a personal approach that aligns aspirations with opportunities at leading employers. In addition to permanent recruitment, Jobbuilders delivers detachering for organizations that want to secure specific expertise without immediate employment, as well as uitzenden for quick access to motivated professionals. The team can also take over administrative burdens through payrolling so clients can focus on their core business. With a clear focus on quality, speed, and long term relationships, Jobbuilders helps both companies and professionals build a strong future together.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceIndustrial AutomationDigital MarketingContent Creation

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

SalesToppers

SalesToppers is a Dutch recruitment and selection agency dedicated to sales talent, helping account managers, new business hunters, and solution sellers make high impact career moves. With more than 20 years of experience, the firm works with startups, scaleups, and multinationals including top 500 organizations, and operates across ICT, online media, finance, pharma, media, and fintech. Its focus on search and selection combines speed with quality: consultants translate individual ambitions and market knowledge into precise matches and present shortlists quickly so clients can keep their pipelines and territories on target. Each week SalesToppers adds new account management vacancies at all levels, from trainees and junior roles through senior account managers and sales leaders. The firm is known for finding sales professionals who consistently deliver on targets and bring consultative selling skills, and it supports both candidate and client through a transparent process that covers intake, profiling, pre screening, competency based interviewing, reference checks where applicable, and tightly managed interview coordination. Clients value the ability to fill multiple sales jobs rapidly, often within a matter of weeks, while maintaining a strong emphasis on cultural fit and long term potential. Assignments span technology solution sales such as cloud and software partner roles, media and publishing account management, financial and fintech sales, and commercial roles in life sciences, with occasional opportunities in trading environments. For candidates, SalesToppers offers direct access to decision makers and sales organizations that fit their sector interests and growth path, clear feedback at every step, and roles with strong progression opportunities. For employers, it provides a knowledgeable, hands on partner that understands quota carrying positions, territory design, channel collaboration, and the traits of consistent top performers, ensuring sales jobs are filled swiftly with the right people.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceContent CreationPublic RelationsAdvertising

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

Van Es Search

Van Es Search is a Netherlands based executive search boutique focused on senior professionals in marketing, communication, sales, and the wider digital domain. Operating nationwide from Loenen aan de Vecht, the firm connects high caliber leaders and specialists with organizations across industries through three integrated offerings: executive search for senior management and director positions, targeted search for seasoned professionals, and interim search for rapid capacity needs. Typical assignments address roles in marketing, brand, corporate communications, digital, ecommerce, data, and media for candidates with at least 10 years of experience, commonly in the EUR 70,000 to 120,000 salary range. Van Es Search is known for an open and honest way of working that sets clear expectations on process, investment, timelines, and outcomes before a search begins, and for a success model that places lasting impact over short term placement, with the final fee installment invoiced only after the candidate has proven value. The team maintains an active business network, a proprietary candidate database per discipline, and augments outreach with smart social media and online job marketing to reach both active and latent talent. Whether the need is a permanent hire, a seconded professional under a payroll contract, or an experienced freelancer, the firm delivers a tailored solution and guides stakeholders throughout selection and onboarding. Not bound to one industry, Van Es Search leverages deep functional expertise to advise clients on market availability and to coach candidates toward roles that fit ambitions, culture, and growth. Its mission is to create valuable connections that continue to deliver results long after the start date.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQLoenen aan de Vecht, Netherlands

We Know Executives

We Know Executives is the executive search and interim division of We Know People Group, focused on senior management and board level hiring across Marketing, Communications, Digital, and Commercial functions. Based in Haarlem, the team partners with leading Dutch and international organizations to appoint CMOs, Heads of Digital, Corporate Communications leaders, and commercial directors who can deliver measurable impact. Their approach blends rigorous assessment of leadership capability with a strong emphasis on personality, ambition, and complementary strengths, helping clients build diverse and high performing leadership teams rather than hiring copies of what already exists. We Know Executives supports both permanent appointments and interim solutions, and also offers secondment options to quickly scale expertise for transformation, brand, ecommerce, data driven growth, and stakeholder communications challenges. The practice has a proven track record with enterprise and scale up clients alike, including Albert Heijn, Versuni (formerly Philips Domestic Appliances), Bouwinvest, Bol, publisher Billy Bones, and BLOS childcare, and it has delivered complex assignments such as a new CMO for JVH Entertainment and senior propositions and communications leaders for Versuni. When needed, consultants work closely with CEOs and HR to refine role definitions and selection criteria, ensuring each search balances hard skills with the leadership behaviors required to succeed. Through a vetted interim network of senior marketers and communications executives, the team can mobilize quickly to cover leave, accelerate projects, or steer change programs. Operating with the service mindset of a specialist boutique and the reach of a larger group, We Know Executives combines market insight, candidate advocacy, and transparent process management to consistently match scarce executive talent with ambitious organizations.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsConsumer ElectronicsE-commerceLuxury Goods

HQHaarlem, Netherlands

Van de Wouw / partners

Van de WOUW Executive Search is a boutique Netherlands based executive search partner specializing in leadership hiring for sales and marketing. Led by founder and principal consultant Annemieke van de Wouw, the firm focuses on director, management and senior commercial roles, combining speed, flexibility and a consistent focus on quality. Operating from Haarlem, Van de WOUW works closely with clients to understand their market, organization and vacancy in depth, weighing hard requirements such as education and sector experience alongside soft factors like culture, stakeholder dynamics and leadership style. Its structured method includes organization analysis with interviews of line managers and peers, definition of a clear role profile and a targeted company list, proactive search and comprehensive interviews, and shortlist presentation typically within four to six weeks supported by weekly progress reporting. Van de WOUW manages offer stages as a neutral intermediary, providing transparent overviews of current compensation and facilitating agreement on terms that satisfy both client and candidate. After each appointment the firm holds follow up evaluations with both parties to support onboarding and ensure a durable, successful hire. The practice serves both scale ups and multinationals across Technology and ICT, new and social media, consumer products and services, professional services, and hospitality and facility management. Reference brands include Dell, Canon, Xerox, Vodafone, T Mobile, CGI, ADP, Canal Digitaal, Carglass and Telegraaf Media Groep, illustrating a track record across B2B and B2C environments and domestic and international mandates. Van de WOUW engages candidates at HBO and WO levels who combine commercial acumen with above average drive, and maintains close, clear communication throughout the search. In parallel, through Stichting Anne Bo the firm supports equal opportunity by funding scholarships and mentoring students, connecting successful searches to broader social impact.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceGraphic DesignBroadcastingPublishing

HQHaarlem, Netherlands

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