Senior Recruitment Consultant

Chapter 1: Monday, 08:47

The canal in De Pijp is still grey when you lock your bike. The office boat rocks in front of the door. Inside, people are already on their first coffee, and the screen on the wall shows what you already know: three final interviews this week, two kick-off calls, and an offer that should land before Friday.

You open your laptop. Your ATS did the boring part overnight. Your AI assistant has prepped a briefing on the VP Sales you are meeting at 10:00. It covers her company’s last funding round, the people they hired this year, and the gap in her team that she has not admitted yet. It takes you four minutes to read. In the meeting, you will need about the same to show her you understand her business better than the last three recruiters who called her.

At 09:15 the stand-up starts. Someone in the Nordics team closed an Enterprise AE role on Friday. A colleague in DACH wants a second opinion on a Head of Customer Success shortlist. You have one. The room laughs at something, then everyone gets back to work.

Chapter 2: The agency you would build if you could start from zero

Since 2017, Nobel has helped B2B tech companies across Europe hire commercial talent. That is all we do. We hire for sales, pre-sales, implementation, customer success, partnerships and marketing, where impact is easy to measure and expectations are high. Our goal is to give our clients an unfair advantage when they hire GTM talent.

In B2B tech, one good commercial hire can decide whether growth speeds up or stalls. Our clients know that, and that is why they come back. A lot of agencies still work the way they did in 2016: cold calls, a pile of CVs and a lot of hope. We chose to build something different. Here is what you get when you join.

A name people know. Founders, CROs and investors in the European SaaS scene know Nobel. When you call, they usually know who you are before you introduce yourself.

Marketing that works for you. We run content, events, a podcast, the ARRtist Summit and a community of revenue leaders. Inbound leads and warm candidates come to you, so you spend more of your day on conversations that count.

Proper tools. You get a top-tier CRM/ATS, a LinkedIn Recruiter licence and our own Nobel AI tooling, which preps your calls and takes admin off your plate. That leaves you more time for the work only people can do.

Clients in three regions. We have hundreds of active clients across the Benelux, the Nordics and DACH, from scale-ups just past their Series A to established software companies.

A team that shares. We are 15 recruiters who swap knowledge, celebrate each other’s wins and push each other to get better. International, ambitious, and good fun on a Friday afternoon.

Chapter 3: Your quest

We are hiring a Senior Consultant or a Lead Consultant. The core of the job is the same. The scope is different.

The Senior Consultant

You own your market. You build a deep network of GTM talent in one country and seniority level, and you become the person everyone at Nobel calls when they need someone from that pool.

About 70% of your time goes to finding and moving talent. You source, pre-screen, present candidates in a way that makes hiring managers sit up, and run the interview process until the contract is signed. The other 30% is on the client side: running kick-off meetings, managing the process with your clients, and winning new jobs off the back of the results you deliver.

You have 3+ years of recruitment or search experience, ideally in tech or GTM roles.

The Lead Consultant

You do all of the above, and more. Half of your time goes to delivering the right talent to our clients. The other half is commercial: building relationships, growing accounts and bringing in new business. You represent Nobel at events, build our name with VCs, communities and partners, and add new logos to the portfolio.

You have 4+ years of experience and a proven track record in both delivery and business development. You are comfortable sitting across from a founder and telling them what their hiring plan is missing.

A week in your story

You run kick-off meetings with founders and sales leaders who want a real partner in hiring. You have long conversations with sales leaders and commercial specialists who are ready for their next step. You send shortlists you are proud of. You try your own ideas for reaching people: video outreach, career workshops, events for your talent pool. And the deal bell rings more often than you expected.

You never walk this road alone

Every hero needs a mentor. At Nobel, you work next to our Partners and Associate Partners. They have more than a decade of recruiting experience, they have built teams, opened markets and placed GTM leaders all over Europe, and they still recruit every day. They join your client meetings when the stakes are high, check your shortlist before it goes out, and tell you exactly how they would handle that tricky negotiation on Thursday.

The structure is simple. A daily stand-up to set your focus. A weekly 1-on-1 on your pipeline and planning. A quarterly deep dive on your skills and your growth. You will learn in months what most recruiters take years to work out alone.

Chapter 4: The hero we are looking for

You do not need a cape, but you do need Nobel DNA. We hire on three values.

Drive. You want to win. You are commercial, resilient and positive, and you think like an entrepreneur.

Ownership. You are reliable and accountable. You treat the business as if it were your own, you do what you say you will do, and you are coachable, because the best people keep learning.

Authenticity. You are humble, curious and sincere. Candidates trust you because you tell them the truth. Clients trust you because you care about their business, and the fee comes second.

You also:

• Know the European SaaS and B2B tech market, or want to learn it fast
• Speak and write excellent English, plus Dutch or German or Swedish language
• Like working with data and new tools
• Want to be part of a close team

Chapter 5: The reward

Now the part most people scroll to first. Growth at Nobel is transparent and based on impact, not on how long you have been here. Our career plan tells you exactly what it takes to reach the next level, and you discuss it every quarter.

Senior Consultant

Base salary from €51.000 to €63.000 per year, across five levels

Lead Consultant

Base salary from €66.000 to €75.000 per year, across four levels

Commission on top, calculated per quarter on your personal revenue and up to 25%.

Quarterly level promotions. To move up a level, you need to hit the bar in personal revenue, improve one skill you agreed on with your manager, and deliver work that matches our values. You do not wait a year for a review. You get a chance for a €3.000 p/y increase, every quarter!

A real path to Partner. At Nobel, Partner is a real goal, and the route is written down. Our career plan sets out every step: Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant, Manager, Associate Partner, and then Partner / Regional MD. At every step you know the mission, the responsibilities, the numbers and the promotion criteria. As a Partner, you run a region as your own business. You build the team, own the P&L and share in the profit you create. Several of the people who will coach you took this exact route. Now it is your turn.

And the rest:

Our office in De Pijp, Amsterdam, with a boat at the front door and our own bar to celebrate wins. Flexible working from home (Mondays and Fridays we are all in the office). Up to two weeks a year of Work From Everywhere, within a European time zone. A budget for a proper home office setup, a fully equipped workstation, a stocked fridge and fresh fruit every day, and a pension scheme. Plus events, dinners, drinks and boat tours with founders, investors and revenue leaders from the European SaaS and AI scene.

Epilogue: Friday, 16:30

The offer came in at 15:00. The candidate called you first, before anyone else. Then your client sent a message: “How fast can you do this again?”

Someone opens the bar. The boat is ready. You look at your pipeline for next week. It is full, and you are already looking forward to Monday.

Your next chapter starts here.

Send your linkedin profile or CV and a few lines on why you are the hero of this story to vsoldat@nobelrecruitment.com, or apply here.