SOLUTION

Sales
recruitment

You have a commercial role open. As a sales recruitment agency we work across the Netherlands. Our clients grow 35 percent faster than the market, and not because we hire faster. It is because the people we place keep selling.

A 30-minute conversation. No obligations, we first see whether it fits.

They had us search

  • Amac
  • Campina
  • Hotelchamp
  • IKEA
  • Mammoet
  • Munro

WHAT WAITING COSTS

An empty commercial seat does not cost you a salary. It costs you revenue.

An open developer role delays a project. An open sales role delays your pipeline, and a pipeline does not catch up.

The deals that were not worked this month do not arrive next quarter after all. Your colleagues cover the existing clients and no one new comes in. Meanwhile your competitor is talking to that prospect.

The problem is not that there are no salespeople. The good ones are at a competitor, hitting their target there, and not looking.

WHERE IT GOES WRONG

The first three months always look good.

Your new salesperson starts, has meetings and reports a full pipeline. That is true, too. Plenty is happening.

Around month four the first deals should have closed. That is when the explanations start: the sales cycle is longer than expected, the decision maker keeps pushing it back. Around month five or six, at the first real review, the forecast turns out to be air.

Nearly always the same cause

  • At the previous employer the work was already laid out. Marketing delivered the leads, an inside sales desk had the first conversation, and that is how target was hit there.
  • On paper that is a beautiful number. At your company that same person has to go into the market alone, and that was never needed there.
  • So in the intake we do not ask how much revenue someone carried, but what percentage of target was hit and how much of that revenue they brought in themselves.

A CV that only names a large number says nothing about either.

Discuss your open role Discuss your role

OUR APPROACH

We approach the salespeople who are hitting their target right now
and built their own pipeline.

They are not looking. We are: we map your market and approach them directly.

First the market: who is selling in your segment right now and hitting their number there. Then the approach, with a story that holds up for someone doing well. And only after our own interview do we call someone a candidate.

HOW IT WORKS

From briefing to hire. No detours.

Five steps, no layers in between.

  1. Intake and briefing.

    Which role, what someone has to come and do, where it went wrong before. After that we start within two working days.

  2. Map the market and approach.

    Around the intake you see a first list of profiles we have found. Your response steers the search, and then we approach.

  3. Screening.

    We interview everyone ourselves. Only after that conversation do we call someone a candidate.

  4. Candidate by candidate.

    Whoever fits, we introduce to you straight away. One at a time, not once there are three.

  5. Guidance through to the signature.

    Until the contract is signed, without silences that cost you the candidate.

Discuss your open role

WHAT YOU GET

What you are buying for that commercial seat.

One assignment, no hours and no subscription.

  • The same recruiter from intake to contract.

    One person who knows the role and stays your contact, in Dutch.

  • A team that calls every day.

    A dedicated sourcing team working the market full-time. More approaches per week than one recruiter ever manages.

  • A write-up per candidate, not a pile.

    The interview, the motivation and the CV, one candidate at a time, with the self-sourced revenue included.

  • Every week where it stands.

    Where the search stands and what the market says back, including when the salary does not match the market.

WHY SENNASEARCH

We count placements.

Thirty commercial roles a year.

Not a total and not a record: that is what we did last year, and the year before that.

Sales, marketing and customer success since 2006.

That is where we know the market, the candidates and what a good account manager earns in your segment.

An answer the same day.

No account manager in between. Call, and the recruiter doing your search responds the same day.

Discreet when someone does not know yet.

If you are replacing a salesperson who does not know yet, the search goes anonymous. Your name only with your consent, and what is confidential is agreed up front.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Our clients grow 35 percent faster than the market.

As a growing company, finding the right people quickly is crucial. Sennasearch really understood our needs and helped us identify strong candidates who could hit the ground running.

Victoria Sweeney Chief Operating Officer · Hotelchamp
Read the Hotelchamp case

The combination of continuous sourcing and job marketing gives excellent results. The fact that you also sit down every week to go through progress makes working together not only very effective, but also very pleasant.

Pieter de Vrieze Managing Director · Advion
Read the Advion case

WHAT YOU PAY

You choose when the invoice comes.

Where you fall in the range depends on the role, and you hear it in the first conversation. You pick the model yourself, and what you pay and when is set out in writing before we start.

If your salesperson leaves during the trial period, you choose: we keep searching at no cost, or you get your money back. The arrangement for your assignment is in the quote, before you sign.

18 to 25% of the gross annual salary, on a successful placement
  • A down payment at the start, with a lower success fee
  • Or no down payment, and then an invoice only once the contract is signed
  • Set out up front in the assignment confirmation
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

NO SMALL PRINT.
JUST CLEAR ANSWERS.

No, but it is where our weight sits. Beyond that we fill IT, finance and HR roles, and if your role is not among them, put it to us.

Then you pay no success fee. If you choose the model without a down payment, there is no invoice at all; with a down payment, only that remains.

Respond promptly to the candidates we put forward: a good salesperson has options and is gone when things go quiet. And tell us what you hear in the interviews and what offer you make.

Tell us which role
you want to fill

Tell us what is going on in a 30-minute conversation. Together we look at whether the role is realistic, how we would approach it and what you can expect.

No sales pitch. Straight to the substance.

  • 92% of the people we place are still there after a year.
  • If your salesperson leaves during the trial period, you choose: we keep searching at no cost, or your money back. The conditions are in your quote.

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