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Hiring a niche profile abroad within 13 weeks for Catawiki

13

weeks

time to hire

12

candidates

invited to interview

1

Director

of sales added to the team

Catawiki | RocketPeople
Catawiki logo

Marketplace

Hiring a niche profile abroad within 13 weeks for Catawiki

13

weeks

time to hire

12

candidates

invited to interview

1

Director

of sales added to the team

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.

Catawiki marketplace
Catawiki marketplace
Catawiki marketplace

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.

"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. Not only did they find the exact profile we were looking for, they also supported us throughout the process, limiting the time investment on our side. They always 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!"

Glen Ferguson
Glen Ferguson

Commercial recruitment lead at Catawiki

"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. Not only did they find the exact profile we were looking for, they also supported us throughout the process, limiting the time investment on our side. They always 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!"

Glen Ferguson
Glen Ferguson

Commercial recruitment lead at Catawiki

"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. Not only did they find the exact profile we were looking for, they also supported us throughout the process, limiting the time investment on our side. They always 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!"

Glen Ferguson
Glen Ferguson

Commercial recruitment lead at Catawiki

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

13

weeks

time to hire

12

candidates

invited to interview

1

Director

of sales added to the team

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