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Top 25 Retained executive search firms based in Sweden
RevenueBase identified 336 retained executive search firms headquartered in Sweden as of September 2026 and tracks 3,117 professional contacts across them, including 1,276 with verified work emails. Stockholm is the largest hub.
This list covers retained executive search firms headquartered in Sweden, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest retained executive search firms based in Sweden
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 559 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MU is a science-based global Leadership Acquisition and Advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SJR in Sweden (SJR) är ett av Sveriges ledande och mest erfarna bolag inom rekrytering och konsultlösningar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1990 Alumni Global has supported organisations in identifying and developing the right leadership, key competence and skills needed within executive leadership, across the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Novare Executive Search är ett av Sveriges största och ledande företag inom chefsrekrytering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amendo har arbetat med framtidens kompetens sedan 2001 och är Sveriges ledande konsult- och rekryteringsföretag inom ekonomi, bank, finans, försäkring, IT och tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are driven by our mission to develop people and organisations and deliver integrated services within Strategy & Organisation, Executive Search, Performance Management and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Academic Search International is a leader in executive recruitment and interim management in the Nordic region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Winona – We help you find the people who move your forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Executive Search Agency of the Year - 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Needo – din partner inom rekrytering och headhunting!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CHALLENGING AND INNOVATING THE RECRUITMENT INDUSTRY Wes contributes to creating successful companies by helping our clients recruit the best talent, and serving as a partner in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Amrop is one of the world’s largest retained executive search partnerships with over 72 offices in 59 countries, and the only firm of its’ kind with full representation in all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vinnare DI-Gasell 2023 & 2024 Vi hjälper våra kunder med rätt kompetens för långsiktig framgång och våra kandidater att ta nästa steg i karriären!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “På Maquire hjälper vi våra kunder att forma framgångsrika ledningsteam.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jobway är det renodlade rekryteringsföretaget som har valt att fokusera på den inledande delen av rekryteringsprocessen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Future Value grundades 2010 och tillsammans har vi mer än 50 års erfarenhet av kvalificerad rekrytering och interim management inom ekonomisegmentet i Stockholm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an executive search and human resource consulting firm with a specialisation in finding top candidates that best suits your company in the Nordic area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEARCH Vi erbjuder dig som kund en dynamisk lösning för att kortsiktigt och långsiktigt lösa dina behov.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Välkommen till HRM!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “På PS Partner tror vi att verklig träffsäkerhet börjar med förståelse – för både människan och organisationen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Emploid är byggt på en stark vision och drivkraft om att alla företag förtjänar samma engagemang, kontinuitet och erfarenhet som endast stora företag traditionellt fått inom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Signium Sweden, founded in 1981, is a well-established executive search firm, until 2016 known as SIMS Executive Search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prodiem är ett expansivt och framgångsrikt rekryterings- och konsultföretag specialiserade inom ekonomi, finans och HR.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Michaël Berglund offers advice to executives teams, boards and owners in the form of recruitment and development of role models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Clarify är specialister på Interim, Executive Search och Rekrytering inom samtliga delar av Ekonomi- och Finansfunktionen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: retained executive search firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names retained executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retained executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retained executive search firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Retained executive search firms based in Sweden at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Sweden, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Sweden, over 336 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retained executive search firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Sweden whose own description of what they do matches “retained executive search firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retained executive search firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retained executive search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Sweden are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,276 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Retained executive search firms by metro
- Retained executive search firms in Stockholm185
- Retained executive search firms in Malmo26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retained executive search firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many retained executive search firms are there based in Sweden?
RevenueBase identified 336 retained executive search firms headquartered in Sweden as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Mercuri Urval, headquartered in Stockholm, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retained executive search firms?
Stockholm leads with 185 headquartered companies, followed by Malmo (26) and Goteborg (21).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,276 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 336 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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