Hiring a niche profile abroad for Catawiki

Hiring a niche profile abroad

Rocketpeople

Marketplace

NL

Catawiki

About Catawiki

Catawiki is the most-visited curated marketplace in Europe for special objects, offering over 65,000 objects for auction each week. Our mission is to provide an exciting and seamless experience to our customers for buying and selling special, hard-to-find objects. Founded in 2008 with a mission to make special objects more accessible, Catawiki now offers over 600 auctions each week, across multiple categories such as collectables, art, design, jewellery, watches, classic cars and more.

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Matching candidates in interview rounds

13 Weeks

Average time to hire

12

Matching candidates in interview rounds

13 Weeks

Average time to hire

"At Catawiki we are in a hyper growth phase. We always have a lot of jobs open, and my team is working hard on that. As we knew the search for a Sales Director required a lot of time, effort and expertise, we decided to partner up with RocketPeople. They have not only found the exact profile we’re looking for at Amazon, but also supported us throughout the process, taking over workload and limiting the time investment on our side. They listened to feedback and recalibrated the search based on our requirements, which lead to an awesome hire. A great partner if you’re looking for leadership hires in a tech scale-up!"

GLENN FERGUSON, COMMERCIAL RECRUITMENT LEAD

The problem

Due to a large hiring roadmap, the internal recruitment team did not have the capacity to pick up an extensive executive search project to find the Sales Director for one of their most important marketplace verticals.

 

A new-to-fill role, increasing the importance of leadership alignment on profile and set up of the organisation.

Catawiki

The challenge

To change the sales organisation and culture, there was an urgent need to hire an experienced Sales Director. The ideal candidate profile was someone from a bigger marketplace, with extensive experience in building and managing a B2B2C sales team. A niche profile, so hiring abroad was a possibility.

The Solution

 

    • 1

      Team

      Setting up a multi-disciplinary team of experience Talent Business Partners to execute this executive search project

 

    • 2

      Communication

      Set up quick communication lines with internal recruitment team and stakeholders from the leadership team of Catawiki to maintain an agile process

 

    • 3

      Sourcing

      Searching, screening nice profiles and protecting an efficient and quick interview process including international travel and office visits in Amsterdam

Catawiki
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Rocketeers working on this project

 

  • Tim circle
    head of rocketpeople
  • Calum Circle
    talent business partner
  • Daan circle
    TALENT BUSINESS PARTNER

Rocketeers working on this project

 

  • head of rocketpeople

  • DAAN, TALENT BUSINESS PARTNER

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