Recruiter (SaaS)

Location: Hybrid, at least three days per week in the Amsterdam city center office, Netherlands.

Company

Simvia is a rapidly growing SaaS scale-up helping the food and consumer goods industry build safe, compliant, and sustainable supply chains through automation and AI.

What you will do

• Source and approach candidates across sales, customer success, product, and engineering through LinkedIn, referrals, and cold calls.
• Build the recruitment process from scratch, including process steps, interview templates, and scorecards.
• Manage multiple hiring processes from role profile through signed offer while keeping candidates informed.
• Hold hiring managers and senior leaders accountable for agreed timelines and prompt feedback.
• Track time to hire, source effectiveness, and funnel conversion to improve recruitment outcomes.
• Support the People & Culture team with in-house events and office life during quieter hiring periods.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of recruiting experience, in-house or agency, including hiring for SaaS or technology roles from sales through R&D.
• Strong direct sourcing and cold-calling skills, with examples of personally sourced hires.
• Ability to build recruitment processes, templates, and guardrails where none currently exist.
• High level of organization when managing multiple roles and recruitment steps simultaneously.
• Ability to work at speed and be assertive with senior stakeholders while remaining warm with candidates.
• Experience using AI and automation in recruitment and curiosity about new tools.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• German and/or Dutch, with German being the most useful.
• Experience in a start-up or scale-up.
• Experience with an ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter.

Culture & Benefits

• Driven and kind culture built around ambition, frankness, openness, and trust.
• Career growth opportunities in a high-paced organization.
• Meaningful mission focused on improving food and consumer goods supply chains.
• Training and support, pension contribution, and travel reimbursement.
• Fresh daily lunch, monthly social events, hackathons, boat parties, and an annual dance event.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with the People & Culture team, followed by a hiring manager conversation.
• Assignment, culture conversation, and offer; every process includes an assignment.
• The process moves quickly, with updates provided at every step.