Batten & Company

Hidden Champion in the category: Marketing

3 Offices
50 Employees
Seit 2000
  1. 2015
  2. 2018
  3. 2020/21
  4. 2022/23
  5. 2024/25
  6. 2026/27

For the sixth consecutive year, Batten & Company ranks among the hidden champions in the field of marketing.

Since 2000, Batten & Company has been one of the leading specialist management consultancies for marketing and sales, with around 50 employees at its offices in Düsseldorf and Munich.

The company advises national and international clients – from medium-sized businesses to global corporations – and supports them from analysis and strategy development through to successful implementation.

With its three specialised consulting units—Strategy, Organisation and Brand—Batten & Company covers the entire marketing value chain. Its focus industries are automotive, energy, financial services, retail, industrial goods and telecommunications.

For 25 years, Batten & Company has stood for sound expertise, practical solutions and sustainable success.

Sector

  • Banking
  • Retail
  • Insurance

Function

  • Change Management
  • Marketing
  • Pricing & Distribution
  • Strategy
  • 3Offices
  • 50Employees
  • 2000Established

Your entry opportunities

You can join Batten & Company in various ways – depending on where you are in your professional life. We continuously offer exciting entry opportunities. Interested? Then see what suits you best.

Your start as an intern

Start your career as a ‘temporary strategy consultant’ and immerse yourself in the world of management consulting: as soon as you have successfully completed four semesters of your studies, an exciting internship of at least 12 weeks awaits you. During this time, you will be part of a dedicated team and actively work on the development of innovative marketing and sales strategies. Your contribution will include carrying out comprehensive research as well as trend, market, competition and best practice analyses. You will consolidate the results of your analyses and derive strategic implications from them.

As a fully-fledged member of the team, you will also support the creation of high-quality PowerPoint presentations and contribute to the development of digital strategy concepts. You can be based either in our office or on site with our clients, where you will gain valuable insights into the day-to-day work of a consultancy and experience direct dialogue with clients.

To gain initial experience as an intern, you should fulfil the following requirements:

  • Enthusiasm for marketing and sales topics
  • Ideally, you have successfully completed your fourth Bachelor’s semester with excellent grades
  • Initial professional experience in marketing, digitalisation and/or strategy consulting
  • Strong analytical and conceptual skills
  • A high degree of achievement motivation, personal responsibility and creative drive
  • A strong consultant and service provider mentality
  • Very good German, English and MS Office skills
  • Ideally 12 weeks time

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Your career start as a consultant

You’ll start your career with us as a consultant after completing your Master’s degree and have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the dynamic fields of marketing and digitalisation. Your responsibilities will include conducting detailed research as well as trend, market, competition and best practice analyses. You will play a key role in summarising the results of analyses and deriving important implications for our projects. You will also be at the forefront of developing innovative marketing and sales strategies.

An important aspect of your role is the creation of high-quality presentations that communicate our strategies and solutions clearly and convincingly to our clients. In addition, you will interact directly with our clients to discuss current project issues and present solutions.

To start successfully as a Consultant, you should fulfil the following requirements:

  • Enthusiasm for marketing, digitalisation and sales topics
  • A completed Master’s degree, ideally with a focus on marketing and/or digitalisation, with excellent grades
  • First professional experience in the field of marketing, digitalisation, strategy consulting
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills
  • A high degree of achievement motivation, personal responsibility and creative drive
  • A strong consultant and service provider mentalityt
  • Very good knowledge of German, English and MS Office

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Your start as a Senior Consultant 

We offer you the opportunity to join our team as a Senior Consultant and shape challenging projects in the field of marketing and digitalisation. Your main tasks will include developing forward-looking marketing and sales strategies, organising and moderating meetings and workshops and managing sub-projects. You will work closely with our customers to coordinate work packages and approaches and actively support our new business initiatives.

To be successful in this role, you should fulfil the following requirements:

  • A completed Master’s degree with a focus on marketing and/or digitalisation, completed with excellent grades
  • At least two years of relevant professional experience, ideally in a management consultancy or an industrial or service company
  • Proven ability to manage various internal and external interfaces, including the management of agencies and service providers, as well as experience in the creation and calculation of business plans
  • Comprehensive knowledge of brand management, digital transformation and growth strategies
  • A high degree of motivation, personal responsibility and the will to actively participate in the organisation
  • Strong consulting skills and service mentality
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills
  • Very good knowledge of German, English and MS Office

Your career as a Manager::

As a manager in our team, we offer you the opportunity to take on a key role in the independent management of projects that significantly increase the brand and customer value of our clients. You will not only play a central role in the expansion and long-term maintenance of our client relationships, but also actively support our consultants in their professional development. Your expertise will make a significant contribution to generating new business. You will also be responsible for facilitating workshops, producing publications and developing innovative methods and tools. This position offers you the unique opportunity to make a lasting impact on our company and the success of our customers.

To join our leadership team as a manager, you should fulfil the following requirements:

  • A completed Master’s degree with excellent grades
  • At least five years of professional experience in a leading top management consultancy
  • Extensive project experience in marketing and one of the following sectors: automotive, financial services, retail, industry or telecommunications
  • Experience in the management of various internal and external interfaces, as well as in the creation and calculation of business plans
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills
  • Entrepreneurial thinking, as well as a high problem-solving and customer orientation
  • Confident demeanour & flexibility
  • Management experience in the form of team leadership
  • Own customer relationships
  • Very good knowledge of German, English and MS Office

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Our recruiting process

Application

You can apply to us throughout the year with your complete application documents (cover letter, CV in tabular form, copies of all relevant certificates).

Please let us know when you would like to start and your preferred location (Düsseldorf or Munich).

You can apply to us throughout the year with your complete application documents (cover letter, CV in tabular form, copies of all relevant certificates).

Please let us know when you would like to start and your preferred location (Düsseldorf or Munich). If you are applying for an internship, please send your application to Heike Liersch at praktikanten@batten-company.com. If you are applying for a permanent position, please send your application to Nina Lamm at bewerbung@batten-company.com.

Once we have received your application, the first step is to check whether all the documents have been received. We will then compare your expertise, experience and wishes with our requirements. If this is positive, you will be invited to the case interviews.

Selection process

You will usually go through two (internship) to three (permanent position) rounds of interviews before you receive an offer from us.

The interviews focus on getting to know each other. The first two interviews are case interviews, where the focus is on solving case studies.

You will usually go through two (internship) to three (permanent position) rounds of interviews before you receive an offer from us.

The interviews focus on getting to know each other. The first two interviews are case interviews, where the focus is on solving case studies. These are often real project examples. The challenge is to work on questions in a structured manner within a given time frame.

If you pass the two interviews as an applicant for an internship, you will usually receive a contract offer from us shortly afterwards. If you have applied for a permanent position, you will receive a recommendation for a partner interview if the interview goes well. In the partner interview, you will get to know one of our partners and may work on further cases. We will then let you know promptly whether we will make you a contract offer.

Decision

Shortly after your selection process, you will receive feedback on your interviews and you will be informed of our decision.

What do our consultants say?

Batten & Company

Simon Freudenberg | Senior Consultant

From intern to Senior Consultant: My path at Batten & Company

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Batten & Company

Annika Helbing | Senior Consultant

Counselling as a vocation: opening up new perspectives

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Batten & Company

Silpa Semere | Consultant

After studying internationally, he joined Batten as a consultant.

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FAQs about applying and joining us

Our focus is on industries with highly dynamic change in marketing and sales, including automotive, energy, financial services, retail, industrial goods and telecommunications.

We offer 15 to 20 internships, preferably to very good Master’s students. As an intern, you are usually permanently integrated into a project team for three months and take on initial responsibility for a project module. From the very beginning, you will be supported by an experienced mentor who will act as your contact person and sponsor.

Please submit the following application documents:

  • Cover letter (including your motivation for applying)
  • Curriculum vitae (including a list of projects, if applicable)
  • Copies of certificates (including training certificates, employment references, internship certificates)

We regularly organise New Hires Days, where you will complete training courses and get to know your colleagues and project examples. We also offer internal training courses and level-specific training with external trainers, as well as our annual Digital Day and Batten University.

From the very beginning, you will have a mentor at your side who is available for all questions, ideas, opinions and problems within and outside of the project work. The mentor is an experienced advisor who is usually not part of your work team in order to maintain a neutral perspective and expand your network.

Please submit the following application documents:

  • Cover letter (including your motivation for applying)
  • Curriculum vitae (including a list of projects, if applicable)
  • Copies of certificates (including training certificates, employment references, internship certificates)

Our focus is on industries with highly dynamic change in marketing and sales, including financial services, retail and consumer goods, automotive, industry and technology.

Our offices

Batten & Company is represented by three offices in the DACH region.

Friedrichstraße 200, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland

Königsallee 92, 40212 Dusseldorf, Germany

Blumenstraße 28, 80331 Munich, Germany

Any questions?

Connect with Nina Lamm from our recruiting team.

Nina Lamm

Head of People and Culture

+49 172 4628395

nina.lamm@omc.com

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