Sales Recruitment Agencies | Manchester
- Manchester & the North West
- 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 Manchester and the North West 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.
Manchester sits at the centre of the North West’s industrial and commercial economy, with concentrations in manufacturing, FMCG, logistics, technology and the businesses that serve them. Our placement work in the area concentrates on Industrial & Manufacturing, FMCG, Logistics & Supply Chain and Technology & SaaS — 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 Manchester and the wider North West. 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. The North West’s mix of manufacturing, FMCG, logistics and tech businesses produces a particularly common failure mode: industries that look adjacent on paper hire for completely different commercial profiles. A Key Account Manager into the grocery multiples is not the same hire as a Key Account Manager into manufacturing OEMs, and a SaaS AE selling into supply chain operators is not the same hire as one selling into manufacturing IT teams. 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, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff & South Wales, Coventry and Leeds. If you are looking for sales recruitment in Manchester or further afield, contact our team for an initial conversation.
