Salespeople
that sell.
Hiring for sales is high stakes. Get it right and the revenue follows. Get it wrong and you feel it for quarters. We take the time to find people who deliver, not just people who interview well.
The hardest hire to get right
Sales is one of the toughest roles to recruit for, and one of the most costly to get wrong. Everyone reads well on paper. Everyone says they smashed target. The hard part is working out who genuinely did, who can do it again in your market, and who just tells a good story. Most agencies send over a stack of CVs and leave you to sort it out. That isn’t how we work.
How we recruit salespeople
We start with your numbers, your product and your sales cycle, not a generic brief. Then we go looking for people who’ve done the job you actually need doing, whether that’s opening new accounts, running a region, or closing complex deals. We ask for evidence, not claims. We look at the story behind the target. And we’ll tell you honestly when someone looks good on paper but won’t last.
What we screen for:
- Real, verifiable performance, not just a headline figure
- The right kind of selling for your market: new business, account growth, or long-cycle deals
- Motivation and stability, so the hire is still delivering a year in
- Genuine fit with your team, culture and the way you sell
A snapshot of the permanent sales roles we recruit for:
- Sales Executive and Business Development
- Internal and Inside Sales
- Account Manager and Key Account Manager
- Regional and Area Sales Manager
- National Sales Manager
- Sales Engineer and Technical Sales
- Commercial Manager
- Sales Director and Head of Sales
We've placed high-performing salespeople across manufacturing, PPE distribution, healthcare, professional services and training. Founded in 2019, we've grown almost entirely on referrals and repeat business, much of it from sales leaders who trusted us with one hire and came back for the next.
Looking for your next sales role?
If you’re good at what you do, you get approached a lot. Most of it is noise. We’re different. We’ll only call you about roles that genuinely fit what you want and what you’re worth. You’ll get the real picture on the company, the product, the earnings and the team, and we won’t push you toward something just to close a deal. Your next move matters. We treat it that way.
Area Sales Manager
Midlands/South Wales/Norwich
up to 50k
Business Development Manager
UK & Ireland
up to £65k
We dig into the detail: what they sold, to whom, at what value, and how much of the pipeline they built themselves. We check the context behind the numbers, so you’re not just taking a headline target on trust.
We work on contingency, exclusive and retained terms, and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits the role. For hard-to-fill or senior sales positions, a committed search usually gets you a better result than spraying the brief around.
Fast when the right person is out there, and honest when they aren’t. We’d rather tell you a search will take a bit longer than send you someone who won’t stick.
Need to hire in sales?
Tell us who you’re looking for and what good looks like. We’ll take it from there and come back with people worth meeting.
Ready for your next move?
Browse our latest sales roles, or send your CV and tell us what you’re after. A real person will come back to you.
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