Batenborch International

Batenborch International is an international partner in sales, marketing, human resources and digital recruitment, delivering executive search and interim management across Europe and Africa. Its strapline is Revealing human excellence, and the goal it sets itself is to bring out the best in people. The company works through a candidate-driven, pro-active process: consultants get to know people thoroughly, approach them proactively, discover their qualities and judge when they are ready for a new step, which is what allows the company to offer advice and make the best possible connection. Alongside its search and interim work it runs a jobboard where candidates can view a selection of current opportunities and apply directly.

Batenborch works exclusively on commercial functions. Its executive search consultants aim only at sales, marketing and digital propositions from mid to top management level, while its interim management specialists cover the same commercial ground and additionally take on HR issues. The company operates within five branches: consumer, industry, services, ICT and healthcare. Clients quoted on the site include AkzoNobel Decorative Coatings, whose Managing Director Benelux praises the company's mapping of needs and clear picture of the market, and XL Airways France, whose Commercial Director notes that Batenborch found the candidates hidden inside the client's own network and contacts.

The company describes itself as active in a territory where it is the best, without concessions, and publishes contact numbers for the Netherlands, Belgium and France, a German office in Mönchengladbach, and Morocco. Sonja Schäfers is Managing Director of Batenborch International in Germany, and the site is published in English, Dutch, French and German. Its corporate culture is described as international and driven by passion, speed, ideas and creativity, with consultants encouraged to become real entrepreneurs and supported by investment in training and development. Candidates report being genuinely coached through the process, with an intake meeting the company itself calls diligent and critical.