Executive Search Consultant

As our new Executive Search Consultant, you will operate at the core of our global, fast-moving organization. By identifying, attracting, and assessing top executive talent, you ensure that Ahold Delhaize has the visionary leaders needed to continue performing at the highest level. With your strategic mindset, strong search expertise, and ability to build trusted relationships, you will directly shape the future leadership of our company.

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• Een aanpakkersmentaliteit
• Een verbindend karakter
• Focus op kwaliteit

Why Ahold Delhaize?

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

How you can make a difference

As our new Executive Search Consultant, you will operate at the core of our global, fast-moving organization. By identifying, attracting, and assessing top executive talent, you ensure that Ahold Delhaize has the visionary leaders needed to continue performing at the highest level. With your strategic mindset, strong search expertise, and ability to build trusted relationships, you will directly shape the future leadership of our company.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

Reporting to the Vice President of Global Executive Search, you will play a key role in identifying and recruiting external VP level and above talent for our brands and corporate functions. You will be joining a highly successful and specialized Executive Search function that manages full-cycle executive recruiting and partners closely with senior stakeholders across Europe and the United States.

In this strategic role, you will combine research, proactive outreach, assessment expertise, and strong relationship-building skills to deliver exceptional quality and value to the business. You will develop tailored search strategies, build target company lists, attract senior-level prospects, and document key insights throughout the process. Additionally, you will provide market trends, industry intelligence, and talent insights to senior leadership, contributing directly to our broader executive talent strategy.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and strategic. You will combine executive search expertise, market intelligence, stakeholder engagement, and strong assessment capabilities to deliver top-tier service. Your key responsibilities include:

• Leading several end-to-end executive searches at VP level and above across Europe and the United States.
• Proactively identifying, engaging, and assessing senior external talent, including passive candidates, for both immediate roles and long-term succession needs.
• Acting as the main contact for executive referrals and managing assessments, progress updates, and candidate documentation.
• Developing and executing tailored search strategies, including market research, talent mapping, and targeted outreach.
• Conducting behaviour-based executive assessments and evaluating cultural and functional fit.
• Building strong, long-term relationships with senior candidates and acting as a trusted advisor.
• Sharing relevant market and talent insights with senior leadership to support executive talent strategy.
• Prioritizing effectively and delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced, confidential environment.

What’s in it for you?

Beyond the impact you will make in this high-visibility, global role, we offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and cross-brand career paths; a full-time (40 hours per week) position in a hybrid way of working: partly from home and partly from our office in Zaandam; the opportunity to influence leadership decisions on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance and the chance to work in an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary of €78K - €88K euro based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12.5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

We believe you will excel in this role if you meet the following requirements:

• 7–10 years of executive-level recruiting within a retained search firm or a large corporate executive recruitment function.
• A strategic mindset and proven ability to build and execute sophisticated search strategies.
• Deep knowledge of modern executive recruiting techniques, sourcing methodologies, referrals, market research, and executive compensation.
• Strong client-facing capabilities and confidence in communicating with senior executives.
• Demonstrated project management skills in a high-performance, multi-project environment.
• Ability to handle confidential information with the highest degree of professionalism.
• A bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree preferred.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an engaging and credible presence, able to quickly build rapport with senior leaders and high-level candidates, strong analytical skills and the ability to assess talent accurately and objectively, a proactive, resilient, and energetic working style, with the ability to work both strategically and hands-on and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Director of Organizational Development

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
HR Payroll Manager

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
HRBP for Support Office

Meet your colleagues

"It brings me great joy to see people build the life and career they want"
Anđela Petrović Director of Organizational Development

"My team honestly feels like my second home"
Efstathia Daskalaki HR Payroll Manager

"Our company culture of striving for excellence aligns perfectly with who I am"
Danilo Grbović HRBP for Support Office

Email for questions: marko.simic@delhaize.rs