We assist digital marketing- and sales-businesses with executive search services, analyses and insights. Our focus lies on improving organisational structures and strategically guided team expansion. Our clients range from publishers and media sales houses, to technical service providers, agencies and advertisers.
For decades, we have held senior management positions in the media sales and ad tech industries ourselves, shaping the developments of the digital media landscape. Our combined industry experience shapes the core of our business: our expert understanding of the needs of key players in the digital media marketplace. This affords us the unique position to competently manage the dialogue between our clients and potential candidates in order to find the optimal solution for all parties involved.
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Strategic Account Planer
We search for, identify and contact suitable candidates for our clients. Based on our extensive, hands-on experience in the industry, we understand the heart of the matter when it comes to executive search for digital media. We have an extensive network of professionals across all the industries we serve and at all relevant seniority levels – nationally as well as internationally. Many of our contacts date back to our own time spent working in the industry and are identified on the back of years of successful collaboration.
We assist companies facing current challenges concerning the issues of human resources and digitisation. Frequently asked questions we receive include, “What is the best way to set up my sales team?”, "Which AdServer should I use?", “How do we best set about our international expansion?", "How is programmatic advertising evolving and what does this evolution mean for my company?"
We are happy to work through tailored insights and responses to these and other questions together with our clients.
We understand the challenges our clients face on the back of our own experiences. This puts us in an exclusive position to jointly develop job profiles that translate into meaningful career opportunities.
We are extremely well and deeply connected with the market and waste no time with sweeping outreach efforts. We identify and contact solely the potential candidates that clearly demonstrate the best fit for a respective job profile and hiring company.
We personally present the top candidates to our clients and support the selection process with the highest level of competence.
We are present along the entire hiring journey, up to and including contract negotiations and landing that final signature. We also gladly assist in the onboarding of hired candidates.
DESPOVE GmbH
Neuer Wall 39
D-20354 Hamburg
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Geschäftsführer: Axel Nieber, Christian Griesbach
Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 155944
Tel.: +49 40 334 739 00-0
Email: info@despove.com