Sales Executive Recruitment
- Field sales, account executive and business development hires
- Shortlists built around how your business sells
- SRUK Fit Score on every shortlist
Sales Executives are the engine of most sales teams, and the hire most often made in a hurry. Two candidates with the same title and the same quota history can be completely different hires: one built for long specification-led sales cycles, the other for high-volume transactional selling.
Sales Recruit UK recruits Sales Executives, Field Sales Executives, Account Executives and Business Development Executives for manufacturers, distributors, service providers and technology businesses across the UK. We build every brief around your customers, route to market and sales cycle before we approach a single candidate.
Roles we have advertised this year include a Field Sales Executive, a Sales Executive in the construction trade and a Trainee Account Executive.
Pay for sales executives varies far more by sector and sales motion than by region. Our 2026 UK Sales Salary Guide breaks it down by sector, seniority and region.
We build shortlists around how your business actually sells — your customers, your route to market, your sales cycle and your buyer. Three or four candidates who fit, each one delivered with the SRUK Fit Score that scores them against your specific brief.
We work with sales executives and business development professionals across the UK. Live vacancies are listed on our jobs board, but most of our placements come from conversations with candidates we already know. Send your CV and we will be in touch when something fits.
Most sales hires fail because the role was never properly understood — by the recruiter, by the hiring manager, or both. We work differently. Before we approach the market, we build a brief around how your business actually sells, then run a structured search against that brief. Every shortlisted candidate is scored against six brief-specific dimensions and arrives in the SRUK CV — a single document combining the candidate’s career history, the SRUK Fit Score, and consultant commentary on each scoring dimension. Three or four candidates who fit, all comparable like-for-like, all read in thirty minutes rather than an afternoon.
Hiring at leadership level? See our sales director recruitment. Hiring for a SaaS or tech business? See our SaaS Account Executive, SDR and BDR, GTM Engineer and RevOps recruitment. In Scotland, see our pages for sales recruitment in Glasgow and sales recruitment in Edinburgh. To talk through a sales executive brief, contact our team.
