What you'll find in this case
How we hired Catawiki’s Sales Director in just 13 weeks
Our strategy for finding top marketplace sales leadership
Lessons on executive search for high-growth tech scale-ups
Catawiki is the most-visited curated marketplace in Europe for special objects, offering over 65,000 objects for auction each week. 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 collectibles, art, design, jewellery, watches, classic cars, and more.
The challenge
“The search for a Sales Director required a lot of time, effort and expertise.”
Catawiki is in a hyper growth phase, and 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. 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.
The approach
To find Catawiki a Sales Director, we set up a team of experienced talent business partners. And to make sure the interview process was as efficient and quick as possible, we set up good communication lines with internal recruitment team and stakeholders from the leadership team of Catawiki.
Quickly started sourcing and screening nice profiles, set up the interviews in their Amsterdam office and supported the closing phase.
The result
The talent business partners got to work and managed to find 12 matching candidates for the first interviews and closed the hire within 13 weeks.
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Hiring a niche profile abroad within 13 weeks for Catawiki
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