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Van Elst & Partners Executive Search

Van Elst & Partners Executive Search is a boutique Dutch search firm focused on connecting organizations with highly qualified leaders for Director, Senior Management, and Sales appointments across the Netherlands. With more than 25 years of hands-on experience in executive search and interim management, the firm acts as a trusted partner in leadership, combining a discreet and personal style with a transparent process that delivers results quickly and reliably. Its consultants work with a retained executive search methodology that prioritizes the best candidate for the role rather than the best available candidate, leveraging rigorous market mapping, direct outreach, and careful assessment to secure talent with the right capabilities and a strong cultural fit. Van Elst & Partners guides clients through every stage of the hiring journey, from defining the mandate and success criteria to building a targeted longlist, evaluating leadership competencies, and facilitating references and offer negotiations. For time-critical or transformation scenarios, the firm also provides interim management solutions that place proven leaders on an assignment basis to stabilize teams, accelerate change, or bridge executive gaps. The team maintains a pragmatic and collaborative style that balances quality with efficiency, ensuring clarity on timelines and progress while keeping stakeholders aligned. Although sector agnostic, the firm demonstrates a particular affinity for the unique dynamics of family-owned and mid-market businesses, reflected in its thought leadership that highlights the pride, challenges, and long-term focus typical of family enterprises in the Netherlands. Clients and candidates value the combination of deep people insight, disciplined search execution, and candid communication that underpins each engagement. Operating in Dutch and English, Van Elst & Partners brings a local, relationship-driven approach to leadership hiring, helping organizations secure executives who can deliver lasting impact while strengthening culture and commercial performance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAll industriesSenior ExecutivesSales & Business DevelopmentGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQNetherlands, 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

The AccelerationGroup

The AccelerationGroup is a Dutch consultancy and talent partner that helps organizations accelerate commercial performance through a pragmatic, execution first approach. Based in Amsterdam, the firm supports ambitious decision makers with hands on experts who deliver measurable growth in sales, marketing, and pricing. Guided by the principle 10 percent plan and 90 percent execution, The AccelerationGroup implements commercial plans end to end, from distribution and partner models to product realization and launch, digital transformation, channel mix optimization, and the transition from offline to online. Its services span executive search, interim management, recruitment, and tailored programs such as go to market and business partner acceleration, all executed in close co management with client teams to ensure sustainable results. The company complements its commercial expertise with data driven growth, partnering with MarketResponse to rapidly unify dispersed customer data, create a 360 degrees customer view, and enrich profiles with external insights to identify, retain, and expand the right customers. Clients can expect a dedicated advisor, disciplined governance, and rigorous safeguarding of progress, quality, and outcomes, with clear reporting and transparency throughout the process. Its network of interim managers and senior professionals is carefully vetted on experience and references, enabling rapid deployment and knowledge sharing that shortens ramp up times and reduces execution risk. The AccelerationGroup operates in line with Dutch DBA regulations for contracting independent professionals and brings sector experience across ICT, finance, automotive, utilities, and retail. The team has delivered impact for organizations including Vodafone Ziggo, T Mobile, DELTA Fiber, Horizon Telecom, Market Response Group, Royal FloraHolland, PPG, Praxis, Fast Forward Wheels, and InvaCare. Whether a client needs an interim leader to turn around performance, a permanent executive to build a high performing team, or a structured program to accelerate go to market, The AccelerationGroup provides the expertise, cadence, and best practices to move from strategy to execution at pace and deliver lasting commercial acceleration.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceChemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQAmsterdam, 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

Bond Recruitment

Bond Recruitment is a talent advisory and staffing partner that helps organizations identify, attract, and hire the right people while supporting professionals as they navigate their next career move. The firm focuses on delivering three core solutions that cover a wide range of hiring needs: permanent recruitment for business critical and growth roles, contract staffing to provide flexible expertise and rapid capacity, and executive search and interim management for leadership mandates that require rigorous market mapping and discreet engagement. Bond Recruitment applies a consultative approach that starts with a clear understanding of each client’s objectives, role requirements, and culture, proceeds with targeted research and outreach across active and passive talent pools, and culminates in a structured selection process that emphasizes competency based evaluation, behavioral insights, and data informed decision making. Clients benefit from transparent timelines, progress reporting, and feedback loops that shorten time to hire while improving quality and retention outcomes. Candidates experience an honest and supportive process that includes career guidance, interview preparation, and offer navigation, all delivered with respect for confidentiality and equal opportunity. The team leverages modern sourcing technology, talent communities, and referral networks, complemented by hands on market expertise, to build diverse shortlists across professional disciplines such as operations, sales, marketing, finance, technology, and human resources. For permanent mandates, Bond Recruitment manages the end to end lifecycle from briefing and employer branding alignment through shortlist presentation, interview coordination, and offer acceptance, followed by post placement check ins to support onboarding. For contract assignments, the firm mobilizes vetted specialists quickly, aligning compliance and start dates to deliver immediate impact. For executive and interim appointments, a research led methodology, stakeholder alignment, and rigorous assessment ensure a tight fit to leadership expectations and organizational goals. Throughout every engagement, Bond Recruitment prioritizes clarity, ethics, and measurable results, providing market intelligence, salary benchmarking, and process recommendations that strengthen clients’ hiring strategies while helping candidates make informed, long term career decisions.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior ExecutivesSales & Business Development

HQCambridge, United Kingdom

YellowApple Recruitment

YellowApple Recruitment is a Netherlands based executive search and recruitment boutique dedicated to the Food and FMCG sector. The firm partners with producers, importers, exporters, brand owners, distributors, and retail focused businesses to deliver leadership and specialist hires that accelerate commercial growth and safeguard quality and operations. YellowApple focuses on experienced, strategic, and pragmatic leaders and senior professionals across functions such as CEO and CFO, plant management, head of sales and marketing, sales management and account management, and quality assurance. Their approach, called Aspirations Based Matching, goes beyond resumes by aligning experience, competencies, personality, and ambitions with each clients mission and culture to build durable, high performance matches. The team combines deep domain knowledge of the food market with an active network that provides rapid access to available and hard to find talent across the Netherlands, Belgium, and wider Europe. Assignments range from board and site leadership to commercial and quality roles, illustrated by successful searches for organizations such as Rio Mints and Sweeteners, Yellow Chips (Valeo Foods), Axxent Masters in Tea, Intervlees, De Smaakspecialist, Van Caem Klerks Group, SOP International and Liroy, Nutland, Tropicalia Beverages Industries, De Vrij Group, Maxima Kitchen Equipment, and others. Documented case outcomes include broad market engagement translating into curated shortlists and a completed executive hire. YellowApple stands behind its process with a six month success guarantee and a transparent, collaborative way of working that typically begins on site to understand the operation, people, and challenges firsthand. Whether the need is a commercial leader to open new markets, a plant manager to drive operational excellence, or a senior QA specialist to strengthen food safety and compliance, YellowApple delivers targeted search and permanent recruitment solutions tailored to the specific dynamics of Food and FMCG.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOFarmingFood ProcessingFishing & AquacultureAirlines & AviationMaritimeRailroad

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

WisePeople

WisePeople is a Netherlands based recruitment and talent partner that matches digital professionals with organizations that want to lead. From its hubs in Almelo and Utrecht, the firm focuses on roles across the full digital spectrum, including Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications, Brand, Content and CX, Data, Tech and Development, Sales and Consultancy, and Board and Management. WisePeople supports both employers and professionals with a clear and human centered approach that blends deep market knowledge with coaching and continuous development. For clients, the team delivers permanent recruitment for critical marketing, sales and technology hires, executive search and interim management for leadership and senior mandates, and contract staffing for project based or interim assignments. For professionals, WisePeople provides a personal WiseGuide who helps clarify ambitions, chart the right career steps, and secure opportunities that create impact. Their structured journey follows three continuous phases: Meet and Connect to understand experience, goals and fit; Select and Match to align role content, organization type and preferred way of working, whether permanent or interim; and Onboard, Grow and Flow to ensure smooth onboarding, evaluate progress, and keep development on track with coaching, training and an active community of peers. The firm leverages a strong network to uncover both advertised and hidden opportunities, ensuring candidates and clients find the right match not just for today but for the future. With a focus on digital excellence and measurable business impact, WisePeople combines specialist recruitment, practical guidance and ongoing talent development to help companies grow through the people they hire, and help people grow through the companies where they work.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAdvertisingJournalismGraphic Design

HQAlmelo, Netherlands

Z-Vizier

Founded in 2010, Z-Vizier is an independent advisory and talent partner based in Zwolle, Netherlands, dedicated to realizing ambitions in the machine building industry. Established by Arnoud Zweers after nearly four decades in the global capital goods sector, the firm combines deep technical insight with solid business expertise to help industrial companies sharpen strategy, strengthen marketing and sales, and secure the right leaders and specialists. Z-Vizier delivers three complementary services: consultancy, interim management, and inplacement. Its consultancy practice focuses on practical, evidence-based advice across strategy, go-to-market, commercial execution, and organizational improvement, backed by rigorous research, concise reporting, and hands-on implementation support to translate plans into measurable results. Through interim management, Z-Vizier provides decisive, immediately available leadership for strategic, marketing, and sales functions, injecting new energy to drive change, execute strategy, and stabilize or accelerate performance during start-up, renewal, reorganization, or crisis situations. Inplacement is a tailored, end-to-end search and selection approach for technical-commercial key positions at executive, management, and operational levels, emphasizing competencies, personality, and cultural fit at the intersection of engineering, commerce, and management. Drawing on a broad and long-standing international network in technical-industrial markets, Z-Vizier gives clients rapid access to top candidates while optimizing both outcome and process, including onboarding and aftercare. The firm is known for a pragmatic, custom, and results-oriented approach where the interests of the client organization always come first, characterized by expertise, reliability, speed, and cost-effectiveness. For candidates, Z-Vizier offers clear procedures and open registration, supporting careers in technical-commercial roles. By aligning strategic intent with execution and the right leadership, Z-Vizier helps industrial machinery businesses improve competitive positioning and achieve profitable growth.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationEngineering

HQZwolle, Netherlands

Van der Wijngaart & Partners

Van der Wijngaart & Partners is a specialist recruitment firm dedicated to the mobility economy across the Netherlands and the wider Benelux. For more than 24 years the team has operated as true insiders to the sector, combining deep market knowledge with a hands on, relationship driven approach that consistently delivers lasting hires. The firm focuses on commercial, operational, financial, and leadership roles from young professionals and specialists to senior management and board level. Its domain expertise spans the full mobility landscape, including automotive importers and dealer groups, motorcycles, trucks, leasing and captive finance, materials handling and internal transport, industrial equipment, and the rapidly evolving new mobility ecosystem such as charging infrastructure, EV fleets, subscription and sharing concepts. VDWP is known for connecting talent both from within and outside mobility to bring fresh perspectives, digital capabilities, and sustainability minded thinking into organizations undergoing transformation. Clients range from innovative scale ups to multinational manufacturers and distributors, with assignments in sales and account management, marketing, operations, and finance, as well as general management. The firm emphasizes a transparent, proactive process and tenacious search execution, supported by a strong network and an active vacancy portfolio. Based in Oosterhout and active throughout the Benelux, VDWP partners with importers, dealer holdings, leasing companies, aftermarket and service organizations to build teams that can lead electrification, data enabled services, TCO focused fleet solutions, and customer centric operations. Whether the brief concerns commercial expansion, service performance, or strategic leadership, the consultants align market insights, culture fit, and career development to secure hires that deliver measurable impact for the future of mobility.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWarehousingDistributionPublic Transit

HQOosterhout, Netherlands

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