Talent Acquisition Partner
Sumup•4h ago
Berlin, GermanyOnsite€200Full-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
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- Talent Acquisition Partner – Field Sales
- 🕐 Fixed-term (1-year) contract · Full-time
- About SumUp
- We believe in the everyday hero — those who have the courage to follow their passion and the determination to realise their dreams.
- Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a team-first attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America
- the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.
- About the Team
- You’ll join our Global Talent Acquisition team, dedicated to finding and empowering the best talent across SumUp. This role will focus on the Sales hiring stream, one of the fastest-growing and most business-critical areas at SumUp.
- As a Senior TA professional, you’ll work day-to-day with Sales leaders across Europe and help strengthen how we hire through process, data, stakeholder coaching
- disciplined execution. Depending on your experience and team needs, you will take part in leading initiatives and mentoring other TA team members.
- You’ll be based in one of our main hubs, Berlin and collaborate closely with colleagues across multiple European markets.
- What You’ll Do
- Own the end-to-end recruitment process for Field Sales roles across primarily Germany and other European markets.
- Partner with Sales leaders to define scorecards, interview loops, and SLAs, ensuring Act as a trusted advisor to Sales leaders: clarify priorities, sense-check asks, and drive alignment on what “good” looks like.
- Build and run structured hiring: scorecards, calibrated interview loops, interviewer guidance, and consistent decision-making.
- Create persona-based sourcing and attraction plans, partnering with Employer Branding when needed.
- Run weekly funnel and pipeline reviews, turning data into decisions
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and drive improvements that raise hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience.
- Bring strong offer and closing partnership: manage trade-offs, expectations, and decision-making to land hires effectively.
- Maintain process discipline and ensure hiring practices remain compliant, fair, and consistent across markets.
- You’ll Be Great for This Role If You
- Have strong experience owning Sales hiring in a fast-paced environment; you can manage complexity across multiple markets.
- Are excellent at influencing senior stakeholders; you can challenge unrealistic or low-value requests constructively, without becoming a blocker.
- Have a track record with structured hiring (scorecards, evidence-based assessment, calibrated decision-making).
- Use data naturally to run your desk: you’re fluent in funnel metrics, trade-offs, forecasting.
- Combine hands-on execution with a system mindset: you improve the machine while running the process.
- Communicate with clarity and pace, and you create trust through follow-through and high standards.
- Fluency in English and German is a must, an additional European language is a plus (e.g. French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish).
- Why You Should Join SumUp
- 🌎 Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an office-first setup
- 🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced
- 📚 A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
- 🌴 Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
- At SumUp, we’re on a mission to empower small businesses around the world with simple, affordable tools to help them start, run
- grow. More than 4 million merchants across 36 markets trust us as their financial partner — and we’re just getting started.
- We’re a global team of 3,000+ people from over 90 nationalities, united by curiosity, collaboration, and care. Our core values and culture shape everything we do, fostering inclusion, learning, and belonging.
- SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, committed to building a safe, respectful, and diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.
- 👉 Explore more about our culture on our careers site , or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram .
- Job Application Tip
- We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. If you don’t tick every box, it’s ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.