About the role

  • You are responsible for building and expanding the segment corresponding to your industry expertise
  • To achieve growth targets, you develop innovative ideas and strategies within your area of responsibility
  • Through a structured, targeted and professional acquisition approach you win new clients for filling key positions (interim and permanent)
  • Based on market observations you develop strategies to identify and fully exploit potential, and you are responsible for their implementation
  • You manage our existing clients, continuously expand cooperation at management level and are responsible for developing and servicing key accounts, focusing on the upper mid-market and corporate clients
  • You lead recruitment mandates for (inter)national assignments, work hand in hand with our research specialists and conduct targeted interviews with managers
  • You are a brand ambassador for KEYPLAYER in your segment and inspire our clients by placing high-profile roles at well-known brands and hidden champions at first- and second-line management levels
  • You are responsible for expanding our advisory board for the segment and for coordinating and collaborating with the advisers

Requirements

  • You have at least five to ten years of operational professional experience from industry or management consulting, or you are recognized in your sector as a top manager with strong networks and a personal affinity for business development
  • Alternatively, you bring many years of experience from a senior recruitment consultancy (interim and/or executive search) in your segment, with deep understanding of operational perspectives and requirements for roles and candidates
  • You possess strategic foresight for expanding the segment
  • Business development, people and client satisfaction are your passion, and achieving targets and successfully managing demanding mandates is a fulfilling task for you
  • You bring a structured, conscientious working style and entrepreneurial thinking and acting
  • A professional, representative manner is your trademark, enabling you to be valued and recognized by our clients at top level as a partner and solutions provider
  • Highest standards of quality and client orientation are a natural expectation in your daily work
  • As an innovative problem-solver your view goes beyond the obvious and you inspire others with your entrepreneurial spirit and commitment
  • A professional and resilient decision‑maker network at executive level in the upper mid-market or within corporations completes your profile

Benefits

  • Responsibility and autonomy to build your own segment, participate in its growth and have the support to realize your ideas
  • An open, collegial working atmosphere with a high level of trust and freedom
  • Targeted, individual training and career development planning
  • Attractive compensation package with an uncapped remuneration model
  • Pleasant working environment, a dynamic team and a values‑driven culture
  • Short decision-making paths and flat hierarchies
  • An already established, strong premium brand in the market with the highest reputation
  • A permanent employment contract and full flexibility regarding workplace location
  • Training and professional development opportunities
  • Access to a unique network of managers, advisers and top clients
  • Additional benefits, e.g. company phone with personal use, high-caliber corporate and team events, state-of-the-art infrastructure
  • The opportunity to become a unique and highly sought-after player in the industry with KEYPLAYER as a practitioner-led recruitment consultancy

Job title

Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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