Executive Sales Recruitment

Executive Sales Recruitment is an award winning recruitment agency that has been established since 1994.

As our name suggests, we specialise in sales & marketing positions, recruiting personnel across the UK at all levels - from entry level staff right up to senior sales & marketing directors.

We pride ourselves on our longevity within the business, and we have an enviable client list of SMEs and PLCs right across the UK.

Some of the household names that we hold PSLs with include Dixons Carphone, Trip Advisor, Bank of Scotland, Virgin Media and the Institute of Directors to name just a few.

We offer a professional, confidential and cost effective recruitment service to companies and candidates nationwide - placing Telesales, Field Sales, Sales Support, Customer Service, Business Development, Sales Management and all disciplines of marketing staff.

We're proud that during our time in business, we've placed in excess of 7,500 candidates!

Our client was a long established family business, which had been supplying packaging materials to the trade since the 1960s.  Having recently been passed down a generation, and with some significant investment on the cards, they were looking to expand a client base which had been fairly static for a number of years.

They’d had an Assistant Sales Manager position advertised for over a month, but found they weren’t attracting the right candidates, and that endless phone interviews and searching through CVs was eating in to valuable resources.

After a conversation with Adrian, our lead consultant, it was apparent that the job description needed tailoring to include the company’s family ethos and future expansion goals, in order to attract applications from more experienced candidates.

We set about searching through our database looking for candidates who had experience in similar previous roles, and specifically with a track record of working to sell new product lines.

Having spoken to one candidate, we felt they’d be perfect for the client. Whilst they didn’t have any experience in the packaging industry, they had spent 5 years working in a sales and marketing role in a similarly sized family-run company, increasing turnover to £15 million and introducing several new product ranges and a new e-commerce sales channel.

We recommended the candidate to our client, and following an interview they were offered the position, with the whole process completed in less than 2 weeks.

They continue to be very happy with their new team member, and we’ve since been asked to recruit some part-time telesales operators as well.