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Sophie Loyau

Recruitment🧨Sales & GTM | SDR → Head of Sales

€600/day
3 projects
Lyon, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Sophie

đź”­ Need targeted sourcing, help managing your applications, or end-to-end recruitment management?

Specialized recruiter in **Sales & Go-To-Market**, I support startups, scale-ups, SMEs, and large corporations in their strategic sales recruitment:
SDR, BDR, Business Developer, Account Executive, Sales Manager, Head of Sales, Sales Director.

From the first SDR to sales leadership.

🔹 Services tailored to your needs
Not all companies need the same level of support. I offerflexible solutionsbased on your internal organization and objectives:

- Targeted sourcing of Sales profiles,
- Application screening and qualification,
- Pre-interviews,
- Recruitment process management,
- Coordination with managers,
- Decision-making support,
- Full end-to-end recruitment.

You can reach out to me for a specific need or to manage the entire recruitment process.

🔹 What I truly assess:

- Pipeline generation ability,
- Understanding of sales cycles,
- Sales organization level,
- Resilience and ownership,
- Ability to perform in your environment.

🔹 My approach
Few profiles. But targeted profiles. With special attention to:

- Quality of communication,
- Responsiveness,
- Candidate experience,
- Business/culture alignment.

🔹 Environments
SaaS • Tech • B2B • Retail • Services • Industry • SMEs • Scale-ups


đź”­ Need targeted sourcing, help managing your applications, or end-to-end Sales recruitment?
Let's talk.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 15km)

Experience

  • Leader Interim digital
    Talent Acquisition Manager (Part-time)
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    November 2025 - June 2026 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Managing strategic recruitment missions for expert profiles in the sector (senior sales, management, key functions), with a direct impact on team growth and structure.

    Identifying needs, defining recruitment challenges, and proposing adapted solutions in high-demand contexts.

    Targeted sourcing of expert profiles: direct approach of high-value talents, often inactive, with a strong emphasis on skills/culture/potential fit.

    Strategic consulting for executives: support in defining roles, market benchmarking, offer positioning, and securing sensitive recruitments.

    Contributing to the structuring of recruitment practices in a rapid growth context: process improvement, shortlist quality, and decision-making efficiency.
    Recruitment Consulting Direct Approach Recruitment process Sourcing Recruitment
  • AVIARY CONSULTING
    HEADHUNTER
    REAL ESTATE
    September 2024 - July 2025 (10 months)
    Londres, United Kingdom
    • Headhunter – Aviary

    Recruiting sales and management profiles: managing missions for high-impact business roles (Business Developer, Account Executive, Head of Sales, Operational Managers), with a performance and cultural fit oriented approach.

    Sourcing hard-to-find candidates: identifying and directly approaching inactive profiles through advanced sourcing (LinkedIn Recruiter, multi-channel approach), enabling access to talents invisible in the market.

    Supporting executives on hiring challenges: defining needs, calibrating roles, advising on positioning and compensation packages, securing decision-making in growth or transformation contexts.

    International assignments: collaborating with English-speaking teams and clients, managing recruitment in multicultural contexts, and understanding European scale-up challenges.
    Talent Acquisition Headhunting Linkedin Recruiter Boolean Search Boolean Searches
  • OpenmĂ©dias
    Talent Acquisition
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    June 2024 - September 2025 (1 year and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Context:Implementing a recruitment strategy to strengthen sales teams.

    Objective:Recruit 8 Business Developers specialized in the media and digital marketing sector.

    Achievements:
    • Precise definition of the profiles sought (skills, responsibilities, compensation package).
    • Multi-channel sourcing via professional networks (LinkedIn) and specialized job boards.
    • Conducting telephone and video conference interviews for pre-selection.
    • Organizing in-depth interviews with managers.
    • Following up on candidates from the final offer to their integration.

Reviews

5.0

Out of 1 rating

S

Sophie

PAPETERIES PICHON

Reviewed on 3/12/2024

We greatly appreciated Sophie's support in our recruitment for the field sales team. She successfully understood the intricacies of our organization and thus identified the right profiles to strengthen our teams.

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Education

  • MBA Business Management and Law
    Paris School of Business
    2008
    Management, Droit des contrats, Droit des Société, Droit social, Droit Fiscal

Certifications

  • Test Profil Pro 2 (personality and motivation test)
    Central Test
    2024
    Ability to assess candidates using Test Profil Pro 2
  • Non-discrimination in Hiring
    CEFDP European Center for Training and Personal Development
    2024
    Non-discrimination

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