Ben Watkins

Intrinsic Executive Search

Co-founded Intrinsic in 2006, to support B2B SaaS and tech firms by finding them new senior leaders and Senior Sales executives who drive growth. 

→ Assisting Hiring Managers in sourcing exceptional commercial talent, particularly in regions where they may have a limited network or need confidential replacements. 

→ Providing high-quality candidate shortlists within 3-4 weeks

→ Supporting clients who have tried advertising or contingency searches without success.

→ Closed more than 1,000 placements across 10+ European countries with a network of over 30,000 tech executives, in regions like the UKI, Germany/DACH, Nordics, Benelux, Spain and France.

→ Become a go-to headhunting partner for startups, scale-ups, turnaround, and corporates.

→ Expertise covers B2B software areas from Customer Experience, Business Analytics, Big Data, Compliance, ESG, Retail/CPG Software to Market Research, Open Source, Fraud/AML, and more.

SaaS Executive Recruiter

Salt - Previously Enigma Resources International

Hired to sell retained searches across new territories like Germany, France and  Benelux. 

→ Sourced and placed VP and Senior level Executives for B2B Tech firms.

→ Clients including FAST (Microsoft), Spotfire TIBCO, Human Inference, Lycos Europe, MicroStrategy, Watchfire, Vitria, Truition, FICO & Skype.

→ Grew revenue in mainland Europe from zero to 1 Million Euro +

Executive Recruiter Europe

eBay

FairMarket, Boston (NASDAQ - FAIM) Selling B2B and B2B2C, SaaS based Pricing Software into Travel, Telco, High-Tech and Manufacturing market spaces.   Acquired by eBay in 2003.

→ New Logos included: Mitel Networks, De Vere Hotels and Starwood Group Inc.

Senior Sales Executive

HALL KINION & ASSOCIATES INC

(NASDAQ - HAKI) Senior Recruiter, UK / Germany, France, Benelux, Nordics

→ Hall Kinion were one of the largest High-Tech Recruitment companies with 56 offices worldwide and a turnover of approximately $400 million.

→ Qualified for 3 x Club Trips, Won the Largest Company Deal and Top Recruiter in Europe Awards

→ Customers included: BroadVision, ATG, Commerceone, Ariba, Zygon, Interwoven, OpenMarket, JCP, Intershop, Misys

Headhunter, Enterprise Software

SaaS Recruiter / Helping SaaS firms hire senior talent from a network of 30k+ SaaS Execs

Are you struggling to hire great SaaS talent in Europe? Let’s change that.
► UK - Germany - Nordics - Benelux - France.
► A-Players from £90k to £250k base salaries.   
► CEO, CRO, COO, VP Sales, Director, Senior Sales, Marketing, Customer Success.
► Retained Executive Search.

FOR JOB SEEKERS:

► Receive CV feedback and a high-quality CV and LinkedIn Profile.  
► Check out my offers >>> bit.ly/executivesupport

SaaS Sales Executive Recruitment business.

We help SaaS firms attract and hire the Best Senior Commercial Talent into their businesses!  

UKI, DACH, NORDICS, BENELUX, FRANCE, USA

Intrinsic is a leading Global Boutique Enterprise Software Headhunting company which helps scale emerging High Growth Software / SaaS firms.

We cover Software areas such as Customer Experience, Voice of the Customer, Business Analytics, Big Data, Retail / CPG Software, Market Research, Surveys, Procurement, Open source, Fraud/AML, Integration, Trade & Risk Management, Content Management, Business Process Management and eCommerce market places

Ikano Insight

Responsible for new business of Ikano's ESG solutions (advisory services & software), ensuring alignment with my marketing, operations and delivery counterparts, and growing the sales team.

Head of Sales

Measurabl

Measurabl is the world’s most trusted ESG data management solution

Account Executive

NTT Ltd.

Successful and innovative Enterprise New Business salesperson.
Multiple Presidents Club Winner.
2020-21 European BDM of the Year
2020-21 European NTT Deal of the Year

Enterpise New Business Account Executive

Unily

Providing SharePoint intranets to companies in the retail, communications, media, property and CPG sectors.

New Business Account Executive at Unily

Marketing automation, analytics and decision making solutions and consultancy.

SDL Tridion / SDL plc

Specialising in providing SDL Tridion's Web Content Management Systems (CMS) to enable businesses to maximise conversions and revenue by providing highly personalised visitor journeys through dynamically publishing content and simultaneously radically improving the efficiencies of website publication.

Account Manager

Infor

Compuware

Responsible for selling Performance Management, Testing & Developer Support tools to Insurance accounts.

Sales Executive

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Responsible for selling Application Performance Management and Testing tools to FSI accounts.

Successful, innovative and award winning in new business sales, sales optimisation, and coaching.  

At Ikano Insight we enable Enterprises and Mid-market businesses to leverage ESG software as a contributor to revenue, cost savings, compliance, reputation, and of course, helping our planet.

At the heart of this are services and software to enable your organisation to be compliant with all major ESG standards including CSRD, GRI, UN SDGs and CDP.

What is different about Ikano Insight's approach:
- We address ALL elements of ESG - environmental, social and governance
- Our heritage in data analytics means we bridge the gap between ESG consultancy and ESG software, meaning we can help you understand and specify exactly the ESG software solution requirements to support your business outcomes
- A complete and comprehensive range of ESG advisory services including: Sustainability needs definition; Providing CSRD readiness services including Climate Transition planning, ESRS Gap Analysis and Training workshops for stakeholders; Delivering end-to-end service to scope, implement and advise on sustainability platforms; Science-Based Targets advice; and Climate scenario analysis (CSA) and physical and transition risk modelling
- We are IBM's best partner in Europe for Envizi ESG software: recognised as rich in functionality and consistently in the top-right quadrant
- We are an expert and agile team, headquartered in London, and ready to work with you wherever you are in Europe
- A heritage of providing ESG to the biggest and most iconic companies in the world

So if you work in finance or sustainability, and you need to deliver CSRD in 2025, then now is the time to talk with Ikano Insight.

I'd be delighted to connect on LinkedIn and to talk with you about your ESG and sustainability ambitions and initiatives.  Please feel free to connect and contact me.

#CSRD #SECR #ESG
#sustainability #decarbonisation
#sustainability #decarbonization #doublemateriality
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