Sales Recruitment Agencies | Edinburgh
- Edinburgh, the Lothians & Fife
- Senior-led searches, no account managers
- SRUK Fit Score on every shortlist
- Three UK offices — Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham
Sales Recruit UK is a specialist sales recruitment agency. We work across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife for businesses where commercial fit matters as much as sales experience — manufacturers, distributors, service providers and technology businesses hiring salespeople into roles that demand real understanding of how their market actually buys.
Edinburgh sits at the centre of Scotland’s knowledge economy, with concentrations in financial services, technology and SaaS, professional services and healthcare. Our placement work in the area concentrates on Technology & SaaS, B2B Sales and Healthcare — 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.
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 Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife. 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 Edinburgh’s tech and services markets the failure mode is specific: a SaaS Account Executive selling into mid-market customers, a founding AE for a Series A scale-up, and a commercial lead for a regulated services business all look like “sales people who can sell software” on a CV. They are completely different hires with different success profiles. 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, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff & South Wales, Coventry and Leeds. If you are looking for sales recruitment in Edinburgh or further afield, contact our team for an initial conversation.
