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About WeAreKeen
WeAreKeen is defining the future of recruitment by providing embedded recruitment solutions that help rapidly growing tech companies across Europe hire top talent. Our skilled talent partners integrate seamlessly with in-house talent teams to accelerate hiring and drive the growth of our fast-moving partners, including Adyen, Bol, Miro, Mollie, Just Eat Takeaway, and many others.
What will you do?
As a Client & Delivery Lead you will take over and grow what has so far been founder-led sales. Above all, we need a closer, someone with a genuine track record of getting deals over the line, not just building pipelines or nurturing relationships that stall before commitment.
Deals here range widely, from a one-off three-month project to a multi-million-euro, multi-year partnership, so you'll need to size up an opportunity quickly and close each kind on its own terms. This is a hybrid role: part hands-on sales grind (prospecting, follow-up, pipeline discipline) and part credible seat at the table with senior Talent Acquisition leaders across both scale-ups and enterprises.
With you joining WeAreKeen we will shift to Eckhart Wintzen's cell theory: small, autonomous teams that each run like their own business, with real ownership over commercial results. You'll be co-founding and co-owning our very first cell, alongside a People & Culture Lead. That means this isn't a role for someone who wants a playbook handed to them, but a genuine entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to make your cell thrive as if it were your own company.
What will you work on?
- Workforce Planning & Utilisation: this is the core of the role. Keep your cell's Talent Partners deployed, plan capacity ahead, manage redeployment, and minimize standby time. Everything else below exists to serve this, new business, account growth, and market expansion are the levers you pull to keep utilization healthy, not goals in themselves
- New Business: build and run your own pipeline, prospect, qualify, present proposals, negotiate, and close, across scale-ups and enterprises
- Strategic Account Ownership: own our existing key accounts and stay close enough that when anything TA-related comes up, you're the first to be called
- TA Partnership: get genuinely curious about how each client's TA function works, where it's stretched, and what "good" looks like for them, then translate that understanding into proposals that land
- Cell Co-Ownership: run the commercial side of our very first cell as if it were your own business, in shared responsibility for its revenue, margin, and utilization targets alongside your People & Culture Lead counterpart.
What you get:
- Salary: range €6500 - €7500, plus competitive commission package
- Full ownership: your own book of new and existing accounts, not a slice of someone else's territory
- 25 paid vacation days and your birthday off
- iPhone + MacBook
- Annual company workation, quarterly outings, and access to the KeenAcademy
- Fresh shared lunches, great coffee, fruit, soft drinks & snacks at the office
- €30 per month + all benefits from our partner Alleo
- A pension plan through Brand New Day
Life at Keen
Our office is located in the heart of the Jordaan, in a beautiful location on Brouwersgracht. From here, we are surrounded by many leading tech companies, making it an ideal and central location for your network.
Our office also serves as a home base for our colleagues. Besides working together, we enjoy spending time together and having fun. Think shared lunches, drinks, and coffee with fresh pastries from the local bakery.
The KeenAcademy
One of our core values is “Keen to learn”, and the KeenAcademy is how we put it into practice. Based on feedback and learning needs, we design a tailor-made program with monthly sessions featuring insights of industry leaders exclusively for Keenies. Additionally, we promote peer-to-peer learning by organizing internal workshops and giving up the stage to our Talent Partners and their topic of choice, and offer 1-on-1 coaching for personal and professional development.
What you bring to the team:
- At least 6+ years of commercial experience in staffing, RPO, or a related B2B services industry, with full-cycle ownership from pitch to close
- A proven closer: you don't just spot opportunities, you get them signed, across various deal sizes
- Comfort and credibility moving between enterprise clients and fast-growing scale-ups, and between founders, people leaders and TA practitioners
- Genuine curiosity about how TA functions work, paired with the discipline to turn that insight into a compelling business case
- A strong sense of ownership, the ability to build trust fast, and lots of positive energy
- Fluent English; Dutch is a strong plus given our Amsterdam base
Keen to be a Keenie? Then apply and join us!
Disclaimer: WeAreKeen is an equal opportunity employer, which means we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
