Van Beuningen & Partners

Van Beuningen Executive Search is an executive searchbureau that helps clients attract and appoint the best professionals at senior management and director level within two disciplines, Real Estate and Sustainability and Finance. The company says its bar is set high, and that this shows across the whole executive search process. Its approach is personal, tailored, hands-on and above all decisive, and it puts weight on being a trusted address for many clients and candidates over time.

In Real Estate the company argues that because the sector is developing quickly, leading businesses have to recruit real estate professionals who bring new and innovative strategies to conquer the market. In Sustainability and Finance it combines two fields that increasingly touch one another and that go hand in hand when companies set out to realise their ambitions. A track record is published for both disciplines. At Van Beuningen Executive Search, specific market knowledge and knowledge of people go together: the company is convinced that a match between client and candidate cannot rest on the job profile and capabilities alone, and that the fit on company culture and development needs matters at least as much if a placement is to succeed and the co-operation is to last.

The method runs in three stages. Research draws on deep knowledge of real estate, thorough market research, contacts in the company's own network, additional market information and a formal check once a potential candidate is in view. Interviews put competency based questions to the most suitable candidates, build a personality profile and map experience, achievements, personality, motivation and ambition. The shortlist, usually the first three or four names, is presented in full, with the reasons they are suitable, what they expect from the role and employer, and the best strategy to convince them. The office is at Molenpad 5, 1016 GL Amsterdam, on +31 (0) 20 5141409 and [email protected].