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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

To enable our continued trajectory as one of the world’s fastest growing Cyber Security vendors, we are seeking a proactive, creative and tenacious Sales Recruiter to join a hands-on recruitment team supporting business leaders across EMEA.

You will be responsible for attracting and securing outstanding Enterprise Field Sales candidates to work at Proofpoint.  In this role, you will be expected to manage full life-cycle recruiting of sales candidates, from identification and attraction, providing an excellent candidate experience and ultimately securing ‘A’ player talent. With presence in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, UAE, Israel and Spain you will partner with assigned HR business manager and hiring managers to provide outstanding support and guidance across multiple territories.

Your day-to-day

• Full life-cycle recruiting mainly for Enterprise Field Sales positions across EMEA.
• Effective advocate of the Proofpoint business
• Partner with hiring managers in defining a recruitment strategy to source the best talent based on the business needs and goals
• Partner with HR colleagues and stakeholders on HR programs and hiring initiatives
• Identify, attract and hire high quality candidates through the development and implementation of innovative recruitment sourcing programs and strategies
• Communicate recruiting activity, challenges and results with hiring managers and HR Business Partners
• Report on recruiting metrics
• Leverage ATS for required tasks and candidate sourcing

What you bring to the team

• Extensive, proven track record in sourcing and attraction methods, targeting talented sales executives within the technology sector, preferably in security, SaaS or Infrastructure
• Proven ability to project manage multiple concurrent search assignments
• Demonstrate understanding hiring managers’ needs and identifying ‘A player’ sales talent
• Excellent negotiation skills with the ability to deliver a compelling vision and opportunity to prospective candidates
• Collaborative, customer focused, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced result-oriented environment
• Proven track record of delivering recruitment assignments to tight timescales
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System; Process-orientated and good attention to detail
• Influential stakeholder and candidate management skills, including ability to manage internal leadership expectations
• Uncompromising desire to create an outstanding candidate experience

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!