Sales Recruit UK — long known across Scotland as Sales Recruit Scotland — is a specialist sales recruitment agency. We work across Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland for businesses where commercial fit matters as much as sales experience — manufacturers, service providers and engineering businesses hiring salespeople into roles that demand real understanding of how their market actually buys.
Aberdeen sits at the centre of the UK energy industry, with concentrations across oil and gas, offshore wind, decommissioning and the engineering supply chain that serves them. Our placement work in the area concentrates on Energy & Renewables and Engineering — sectors where the recruiter needs to understand the route to market, the buyer, the sales cycle and the technical content as well as the salesperson does. We hire from individual contributors through to Sales Director and Country Lead level, across field sales, key accounts, business development, technical sales and commercial leadership.
Every brief is run by Robert McGougan or Derek Anderson personally. The fifty-plus years of combined sales recruitment experience in the firm sit on the search itself, not on the introduction call. A research function supports the sourcing work, but the consultant who scopes your brief is the consultant who shortlists. There are no account managers and no junior researchers between you and the senior consultant on the brief.
Aberdeen leads our energy and renewables sales recruitment in Scotland.
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 professionals across Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland. 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. In Aberdeen’s energy supply chain that gap is expensive: a salesperson who’s spent twenty years in upstream oil and gas reads as a perfect fit for an offshore wind business until you realise the buyer is a developer rather than an operator, the procurement cycle is different, and the technical content is only half-relevant. 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.
We work across the UK and run searches into other major commercial cities including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff & South Wales, Coventry and Leeds. If you are looking for sales recruitment in Aberdeen or further afield, contact our team for an initial conversation.
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