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Modern heads executive search

Modern heads executive search is a boutique headhunting firm dedicated to leadership and specialist hires across the digital economy in the DACH region. Founded in 2007 by Jochen Barringer, the consultancy operates on a retained, mandate based model and focuses on sectors where technology, data, and customer experience drive competitive advantage. The team concentrates on digital business, technology, e commerce, and omni channel retail, and is equally active in adjacent innovation led domains such as fintech, telco, media, Industry 4.0, automotive, logistics, and related IT enabled services. Positioning itself as experts in digital business, modern heads conducts executive search for key management and functional roles that require both digital expertise and strong leadership capabilities, from C level and VP appointments to heads of digital, product, technology, data, marketing, and e commerce. Their approach blends a curated network of more than 5000 high potential candidates with direct sourcing across social platforms, online databases, and data driven research, combined with structured assessment and suitability diagnostics to validate skills, modern leadership behaviors, and cultural fit. With locations and delivery capability across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, modern heads supports clients end to end, from role definition and market mapping through candidate engagement, evaluation, offer management, and onboarding. The firm emphasizes pragmatic counsel to help organizations shape teams for digital transformation, whether modernizing core platforms, scaling e commerce operations, or building Industry 4.0 capabilities that connect people, machines, and information. Its consultants bring insider know how, management experience, and deep networks in their focus markets, enabling efficient shortlists even when senior leaders show low mobility. By combining rigorous search methods with a human centric candidate experience, modern heads delivers hires that create measurable advantage in fast moving, technology driven businesses.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceE-commerceLuxury GoodsBanking

HQHamburg, Germany

ADPENSO by Astrid Döhmann

ADPENSO by Astrid Doehmann is an executive search and recruiting boutique dedicated to the digital economy since 2007. Serving clients across the DACH region and broader EMEA, the firm partners with startups, midsize innovators, and global enterprises to build high performing teams that drive growth and market entry. Its core domain expertise spans MarTech, Analytics, E Commerce, FinTech, PropTech, IT, and digital agencies, with a strong track record assembling European teams for US based companies launching or scaling in Germany and across Europe, often for SaaS led businesses. ADPENSO focuses on the recruitment of specialists and leaders in the middle and upper management bands, covering roles in sales and business development, customer success, analytics, product management, marketing, HR, and IT, from junior to head of level. The firm is known for targeted direct search rooted in deep market knowledge, hands on research, and profile expertise, ensuring only the most relevant and motivated candidates are presented. Clients value transparent communication, regular reporting, and a pragmatic, results oriented approach that balances speed with quality. Candidates benefit from end to end guidance from first contact through onboarding, including support on application materials and coaching around critical career and development questions. ADPENSO prioritizes long term fit and mutual trust, aiming for placements that align skills, aspirations, and culture. With an extensive network built over many years and a commitment to exhaustive multi channel sourcing, the team consistently delivers scarce digital talent across sales, go to market, data, and product disciplines. Operating as ADPENSO International SL out of Palma de Mallorca while working internationally, the firm combines boutique attention with cross border reach, helping clients secure the people they need to win in competitive digital markets.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceContent CreationPublic RelationsAdvertising

HQHamburg, Germany

Cortago

Cortago GmbH is an internationally active provider of specialized staffing and engineering services based in Hamburg, Germany. The firm supports clients by aligning project and workforce needs with precisely matched talent and delivery models, combining recruitment, consulting, and an in house engineering office to turn business goals into results. Its Professionals offering focuses on technical and commercial roles such as engineers, technicians, CAD designers, and business administrators, delivered through employee leasing (temporary staffing) as well as service and work contracts for defined scopes. Cortago also provides executive search, guiding clients from requirements definition and targeted sourcing through structured selection, contract negotiation, and onboarding led by HR specialists to ensure a smooth and lasting hire at leadership and critical specialist levels. The Consultants practice covers analysis, planning, solution design, project management, and implementation, with experienced project leads and experts across SAP, IT, and telecommunications who support the entire process chain and help stabilize complex transformation or rollout programs. Complementing its talent solutions, Cortago operates a technical office that executes complex fixed scope engineering assignments from plant design to drawing verification, and extends capabilities with modern 3D laser scanning to capture accurate as built data for brownfield and greenfield projects. The company emphasizes quality, reliability, and partnership, tailoring services to the needs of customers, employees, and candidates, and building long term relationships through transparent processes, defined interfaces, and consistent delivery. With experience across industrial engineering, IT infrastructure, and telecom environments, Cortago brings together domain expertise and flexible engagement models so clients can scale teams quickly, accelerate projects, and access scarce skills without compromising standards or timelines.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtTemporary StaffingSOW/ProjectsIndustrial MachineryElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQHamburg, Germany

Madonn - Direktvermittlung

Madonn - Direktvermittlung is a boutique German headhunting firm founded in 2016 that focuses on the direct placement of professionals with a strong technical background, particularly across sales, business development, and engineering functions. Operating as a pure headhunter without a pool system, the company conducts bespoke searches tailored to each mandate and provides candidates, upon request, with market value assessments and pragmatic guidance on reaching the next milestones in their careers. Madonn partners with midmarket innovators and global industry leaders alike, delivering targeted shortlists for expert and leadership roles that demand both commercial acumen and deep engineering know how. The firm regularly recruits Field Application Engineers for semiconductor and automotive infotainment contexts, SPS/PLC service and commissioning engineers for highly complex automation environments, MSR specialists for building automation and HVAC control across airports, hospitals, offices, and industrial facilities, and technical key account and sales managers for special purpose machinery. Typical searches require fluency in German and English, comfort with high speed serial interfaces, embedded development, industrial communication protocols, and the ability to interface credibly with R&D and customers from concept through deployment. With mandates spanning major German hubs including Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Hanover, and Karlsruhe, Madonn combines discreet executive search practices with rigorous technical screening to ensure fit on capability, culture, and long term impact. Clients rely on the firm for permanent recruitment and executive appointments that strengthen product development, applications engineering, and go to market execution across industrial automation, electrical engineering, embedded systems, and machinery, while candidates value the transparent, respectful process and focused feedback that accelerates their professional growth.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQMunich, Germany

ExecuSearch

ExecuSearch Staffing Solutions, Inc. is an executive search and placement firm headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, recognized by Forbes on its Best Recruiters lists for Executive Search and Professional Search. The firm delivers a full spectrum of hiring solutions, combining direct hire, permanent placement, contract and temporary, and temp-to-perm options so employers can respond to variable business conditions, secure specialized talent, and control hiring costs. Serving companies nationwide from large enterprises to growth-stage businesses, ExecuSearch focuses on roles across logistics, distribution, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, retail management, accounting, customer service, human resources, and purchasing. Its process is designed around people, process, and performance: consultants listen to client goals and culture, carefully screen and qualify every candidate, complete reference checks and education verifications prior to first interviews, coordinate all interviews and appointments, assist with offer negotiations, and follow up after onboarding to ensure long-term fit. With extensive industry experience and an actively refreshed database of vetted professionals, the team operates primarily on a contingency basis while also offering retained search for critical leadership hires. For candidates, ExecuSearch provides confidential, high-touch support that includes career planning, interview preparation, and guidance on resigning professionally, all aimed at connecting impact players with organizations that value their abilities and passion. Current opportunities span from entry-level management through senior management and executive positions, such as engineering leaders, production and plant management, packaging and process engineers, supply chain managers, HR supervisors, senior accountants, and commercial leaders in sales and business development. By aligning rigorous search methodology with market insight, ExecuSearch consistently delivers well-qualified talent that helps clients build stronger teams and achieve measurable business results.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTruckingWarehousingDistribution

HQSarasota, United States

Lauber Business Partners

Lauber Business Partners is a Milwaukee-based advisory and talent solutions firm that provides experienced leadership in times of growth and change for small to mid-sized organizations and nonprofits. The company brings together deep functional expertise in finance and accounting, human resources, leadership coaching, and team development with a robust talent acquisition capability that includes executive search, contingent search, and dedicated recruiting services. Lauber’s delivery model is intentionally flexible, offering fractional leadership for part-time access to seasoned CFOs and HR executives, interim leadership to bridge critical gaps, and project-based consulting to address specific challenges such as preparing for audits, building HR infrastructure, or recruiting key hires. Beyond the “smart” mechanics of running a business, Lauber emphasizes organizational health, drawing on Lencioni’s framework to help leaders foster clarity, trust, and healthy team dynamics. Its coaching practice spans one-on-one, embedded “office hours,” group, and triple-impact team formats to align individual growth, interpersonal effectiveness, and team performance. In talent acquisition, Lauber partners with clients to secure high-impact leaders and hard-to-find specialists, and can embed dedicated recruiters to scale hiring efficiently. The firm’s nonprofit management arm, delivered through Lauber Community Partners, extends specialized capacity-building, leadership, and operational support tailored to mission-driven organizations. Lauber’s finance and accounting team is known for rapidly professionalizing reporting and systems, supporting bank relations, and enabling growth; in one case, improved reporting and asset-based lending helped a client triple revenue from $5M to $18M in three years and achieve a successful sale at seven times EBITDA. Combining experienced practitioners with a practical, outcome-focused approach, Lauber helps clients stabilize operations, accelerate growth, and build healthy cultures that sustain results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOFundraisingSocial ServicesEnvironmental ConservationHuman ResourcesTechnical WritingProject Management

HQMilwaukee, United States

Vicat Global

VICAT Global Ltd (Vietnam Intensive Coaching and Training) is a Vietnam based education and workforce pathway provider that prepares Vietnamese nursing talent for study, licensure conversion, and long term employment in Germany. Founded in 2015, the organization operates training centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and maintains an on the ground office in Hamburg to support learners after arrival. VICAT focuses exclusively on the nursing domain and delivers an end to end service that spans career counseling, German language programs from A1 to B2, targeted preparation for telc, Goethe, and OSD exams, and comprehensive application support for university and vocational routes, including APS, TestAS, Uni Assist, visas, and original employment contracts issued in Vietnam. Its flagship paths include a three year nursing Ausbildung for high school graduates aged 18 to 35 with monthly training allowances, and the GAVIC project for college and university educated nurses aged 21 to 38, which sponsors 100 percent of conversion costs and compresses in Germany study to 6 to 10 months so candidates can begin working quickly. Specialized B2 for Nursing, culture and integration classes, interview coaching, and a foundation nursing module ensure academic and practical readiness. VICAT reports strong outcomes with hundreds of participants, more than 635 students transitioning to Germany, a 100 percent visa approval rate, and 100 percent employment after graduation, supported by 100 plus German partners across 10 of 16 states and a 40 plus tutor network that assists with airport pickup, housing, local registration, residency extensions, and workplace onboarding. The quality system is certified to ISO standards by TUV SUD, and the firm is introduced by the Department of Science, Technology and Training of the Ministry of Health and collaborates with the Vietnam Nurses Association. Instruction is delivered by senior university lecturers, certified examiners, and native speakers, reflecting the companys commitment to depth, transparency, and no hidden fees along the learner to employee journey.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOTotal Talent MgmtHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsVeterinaryHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & Coaching

HQNeu Wulmstorf, Germany

New Work People

New Work People is a boutique recruitment and coaching partner founded in 2019 with the belief that digital transformation is redefining how, where, and why people work. The firm is built around the New Work philosophy, which challenges traditional time and workplace models and puts purpose, flexibility, and human centricity at the core of career and organizational decisions. Through three complementary offerings, New Work People helps modern, agile companies and ambitious professionals navigate this shift. New Work Talent focuses on recruiting, connecting employers with candidates who thrive in flexible, hybrid, and outcome driven environments and who bring the skills and mindset needed for the workplace of tomorrow. New Work Mind provides coaching that supports individuals through key career transitions, helps leaders adopt new ways of working, and equips teams to embrace change with resilience and clarity. New Work Tribe builds community by bringing together like minded and diverse thinkers who want to exchange ideas and learn from each other as work continues to evolve. A signature initiative, Momhunting, addresses an issue that is both socially important and personally meaningful to the founders: making women and career moms more visible in the talent market. By advocating for modern work models, highlighting transferable strengths, and aligning roles with real world flexibility, the firm opens new opportunities for highly skilled professionals who are often overlooked. For employers, New Work People acts as a committed partner, shaping role profiles for a New Work context, promoting inclusive hiring, and ensuring a strong candidate experience. For candidates, the team offers a welcoming entry into its talent pool, practical coaching, and a community that fosters inspiration and momentum. In every engagement, New Work People aims to shape a more human, sustainable, and forward looking world of work.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Corporate Training & CoachingE-Learning & Online EducationAll industries

HQHamburg, Germany

Panacea 4U Deutschland UG

Panacea 4U Deutschland UG is a specialist healthcare recruitment and training consultancy focused on helping hospitals and clinics secure qualified medical staff while guiding clinicians to build sustainable careers in Germany and selected international markets. Active since 1996, the company concentrates on recruiting and placing medical doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and nurses, supporting both German institutions and candidates relocating from abroad, including from the UK, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. Alongside recruitment, Panacea 4U operates a certified telc test center open to all occupations and delivers German language programs from A2 to C2, including C1 Hochschule, medical German B2 C1, and nursing pathways, as well as Medical English. The firm runs BAMF funded specialist language courses for academic health professions and is certified by AZAV, with recognition from Jobcenter and the Agentur fuer Arbeit. Its training portfolio includes intercultural competence in hospitals and structured preparation for the German Gleichwertigkeitspruefung and Kenntnispruefung for human and dental medicine, delivered online, hybrid, or in person. Panacea 4U further provides career and authorities consulting, CV services, and support with Approbation and recognition procedures, ensuring candidates meet linguistic and regulatory requirements for licensure and employment. Employers benefit from targeted search, screening, and candidate readiness services designed to improve retention and accelerate onboarding into the German healthcare system. Candidates can submit a short application to access open roles, while institutions can request staff through dedicated employer channels. With nearly three decades of sector specific experience, multilingual consultants, and longstanding international cooperation, Panacea 4U integrates recruitment with language proficiency, cultural preparation, and compliance, creating an end to end pathway that addresses talent shortages and enables safe, effective transitions into clinical practice.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsVeterinaryHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & Coaching

HQHamburg, Germany

S and w personalmanagement

s&w personalmanagement GmbH is a regional HR services partner supporting companies and candidates across Northern Germany from its base in Kaltenkirchen with additional presence in Neumunster and Ahrensburg and a growing footprint in Hamburg. The firm focuses on three core offerings: direct placement into permanent roles, employee leasing for flexible temporary needs, and integrated personnel management that can include external HR administration, complemented by professional consulting and certified coaching. For employers, s&w delivers a fast and efficient recruiting process, helps avoid resource bottlenecks through reliable temporary staffing, and provides transparent cost control while maintaining workforce continuity. For candidates, the team enables reentry into the job market, direct hiring into permanent roles, and temporary assignments with realistic prospects of takeover, all backed by free advisory support, workshops, and an easy quick-application option that requires no documents. With a strong network of skilled workers, high potentials, and an internal employee base, the company fills vacancies quickly with appropriately qualified staff and can smooth out workload peaks for production environments. A particular strength is the smooth, efficient integration of foreign personnel through structured selection and training, supported by qualified multilingual foremen and the ability to communicate with applicants in German, English, Polish, and Arabic. True to its motto of connecting people and businesses in the region, s&w emphasizes personal service, short decision paths, and local presence between Hamburg and Flensburg, aligning closely with the needs of industrial and production clients while also handling a variety of white collar assignments. The result is a practical, end to end talent solution that blends permanent recruitment, temporary staffing, and hands on personnel management so employers gain agility and candidates secure fair, sustainable opportunities in a modern labor market.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingTotal Talent MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationIndustrial & Manufacturing

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