Sebastian Ehlers
Managing Partner
Focus: Compensation & Benefits, HR data and HR systems.
About us
Compensation, structures and HR processes are among a company’s most sensitive and effective levers. This is where our work begins. Supporting you where it matters.
Our expertise
DeBott draws on more than a decade of operational and strategic HR experience.
We understand the challenges through practical experience as well as consulting.
Our focus is on compensation strategy – a central management instrument. Compensation influences recruitment and retention as well as a wide range of business decisions.
Our services include:
- Developing and improving compensation systems
- Market analysis and salary benchmarking
- Job evaluation, grading and transparent salary structures
- Recruiting and talent acquisition
- HR digitalisation, automation and AI integration
- HR strategy, organisation and management
- Interim HR management and HR project leadership
We combine data, market insight and operational experience to create solutions that are sound in theory and work in practice.
The benefits of working with us
- Current salary data for Europe – differentiated by region, experience and industry
- Digital salary tool for independent analysis and benchmarking
- Objective job evaluation and grading for consistent job structures
- Fair and transparent compensation structures aligned with internal requirements and external expectations
- HR transformation with clear processes and responsibilities
- AI in HR integrated into suitable use cases
What sets us apart
- Experience from practice rather than purely theoretical consulting
- A focus on compensation as a central management lever
- Data-based decisions rather than intuition alone
- Individual solutions rather than standard concepts
- Reliable implementation supported by employment-law expertise
Our commitment
We believe that good decisions are grounded in clarity.
Our goal is to provide that clarity in a field often shaped by a lack of transparency, uncertainty and complexity.
We create structure, comparability and a foundation for decisions.
So you can make use of the scope that really matters.
Our approach
We do not work with standard solutions.
Every company has its own structures, challenges and objectives. We question existing approaches, analyse data and develop solutions tailored to your situation.
Our commitment is clear:
Translate complex questions into practical, economically sound solutions.
“Lasting strength emerges where problems are not only analysed, but consistently solved – often with the right impetus from outside.”
CEO
The partners at DeBott
Alexander Knütter
Partner
Focus: Organisational strategy, role management and governance.
Security and legal expertise
Our partner law firms support implementation. Their employment-law expertise supports the legal review and safeguarding of the solutions we develop.
This connects strategic consulting with legal expertise.
Your next HR decision deserves a clear foundation.
Would you like to get to know DeBott or discuss a specific HR question? Whether it concerns compensation strategy, HR structures, digitalisation or operational support: an initial conversation clarifies your situation, the action required and a useful next step.