European reach,
local fluency

The Netherlands is our home market. From our base in Twente we run senior searches week in, week out across the Randstad - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague - and into the Eindhoven Brainport region for deep-tech, semiconductor and high-tech systems leadership. Roughly 40 percent of our active mandates are placed inside the Netherlands, which means we know the comp bands, the candidate pools and the hiring rituals more intimately here than in any other European market.

The United Kingdom is one of our two largest European markets by search volume and the single most internationally connected hiring corridor we operate in. London still anchors UK senior hiring across financial services, B2B SaaS, consumer, life sciences and consulting, but Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Cambridge now hold their own for tech, finance and deep-science leadership. Brexit has changed the operational mechanics of cross-border hiring rather than the importance of the UK in a European search.

Germany is the largest economy in Europe and one of our most active senior search markets. The country splits cleanly into three hiring contexts: the established Mittelstand and DAX-listed corporates concentrated in Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and the Rhein-Main region; the hyper-growth Berlin scale-up scene; and the increasingly relevant Frankfurt financial corridor. Each context has its own pacing, comp norms, language expectations and decision-making rhythm. Treating Germany as one market is the single fastest way to lose a senior candidate.

France is one of our largest senior search markets in continental Europe. Paris dominates senior commercial, marketing, finance and tech leadership and remains the obvious entry point for international companies opening a French entity. Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Nice add real depth in industrial, aerospace, life sciences and consumer leadership outside the capital. Our French searches run in French where required and in English where the working language allows it, with a deliberate emphasis on cultural fluency rather than literal language matching.

Spain has matured into one of the most active senior hiring markets in southern Europe. Madrid leads on senior corporate, finance, energy and consulting leadership, while Barcelona is the centre of gravity for tech, consumer, e-commerce and lifestyle brand leadership. Valencia, Bilbao, Seville and Malaga add genuine depth across SaaS, fintech, tourism and industrial leadership. Iberia (Spain plus Portugal) is increasingly briefed as a single regional mandate, particularly for SaaS and consumer leadership covering Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon.

Italy is one of the four largest economies in continental Europe and one of the most distinctive senior hiring markets we operate in. Milan is the unambiguous commercial and finance capital, Rome anchors public-sector adjacent and corporate leadership, Turin carries automotive and industrial leadership, and the Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany regions host significant family-owned business and luxury manufacturing leadership. Treating Italy as a single national market is the fastest way to misframe a senior search.

Portugal is one of Europe's fastest-growing nearshore technology and shared-services destinations and an increasingly active senior search market for us. Lisbon and Porto attract international SaaS, fintech, gaming and customer-experience leadership, supported by strong English proficiency, a large multilingual talent pool and a lower cost base than Western Europe. Lisbon hosts Web Summit and a dense scale-up ecosystem, while Porto offers a fast-growing engineering and product base at a lower cost than Lisbon. Many US and UK scale-ups now use Portugal as an Iberian or Southern European base.