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Talent Executive

EXECUTIVE SEARCH BRUSSELS

Taking Turns is growing. For our Executive Search team in Brussels, we’re looking for a Talent Executive who combines a strong interest in people with a sharp business mindset.

Are you someone who enjoys building relationships, engaging with senior stakeholders and understanding what drives a business? Someone who sees the potential in relationships and knows how to turn them into lasting partnerships and business opportunities?

The offer

At Taking Turns, you’ll manage Executive Search projects from start to finish, working closely with clients and management teams. You’ll develop your own network, strengthen client relationships and gradually take ownership of your book of business.

But there’s more to it. You’ll be part of a growing business where initiative matters, ideas can shape the way we work and your contribution can make a real difference. This is an opportunity to help build the next chapter of Taking Turns!

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Your responsabilities

As Talent Executive, you work on Executive Search assignments for senior management and C-level positions.You are in control of the entire process.

  • Together with the Business Director, you participate in client intakes and develop a thorough understanding of the company, its business challenges, culture and the profile it needs.

  • From there, you translate the assignment into a smart and targeted search strategy. Which industries should we explore? Which companies are relevant? Where could the right profiles be hiding?

  • You will be supported by our researchers, but you remain hands-on in the search yourself. You map markets, identify potential candidates and approach people directly. And finding them is only the beginning.

  • You conduct in-depth interviews in which you look beyond experience and titles. You want to understand what someone has achieved, how they think, what drives them and whether there is a genuine fit with the client and the role.

  • Throughout the process, you act as a trusted sparring partner for candidates and clients, ensuring a high-quality candidate experience from first contact to final placement.

  • Executive Search is a relationship business. Growing into the role, you will build and manage your relationships with clients, candidates and prospects. You are involved, follow up and stay close to what is happening in your network, enabling you to be a trusted business partner.

  • Together with the Business Director, you contribute to business development and build your own client relationships.

Your background

  • You probably have around 4 to 8 years of professional experience, ideally within Executive Search, search and selection, recruitment or another relevant service and people-oriented environment. More importantly, you recognise yourself in the combination we are looking for.

  • You are analytical and curious. You enjoy understanding businesses, markets and people and can quickly make sense of complex information.

  • You are driven and persistent. A difficult search motivates rather than discourages you.

  • You are people minded. You connect naturally with others, listen carefully and know how to ask the question behind the question.

  • You are commercially minded. Building a network, developing relationships and identifying opportunities comes naturally to you.

  • You are hands-on. Even with research support around you, you want to know the market yourself and are happy to pick up the phone and approach the right person.

  • You are a native Dutch speaker and communicate professionally in French and English.

Ready to take your next turn? Let’s get in touch below!

Let’s work together.