Sales & Commercial Recruitment
Permanent Sales & Commercial Recruitment
Evans Sales Consultancy recruits permanent sales and commercial professionals for manufacturers, engineering businesses, building-products companies, technology businesses and specialist B2B organisations — starting from what the hire must commercially achieve, not from a template job description.
Recruitment that starts with the commercial requirement
Unlike a generalist recruitment agency, Evans approaches sales recruitment from the commercial requirement first. What must this person sell? Into which market? Through which channel? To which customers? Against what target? With what level of autonomy? And what should success look like in the first 12–24 months? The role specification follows the commercial requirement, rather than the other way around.
- What must this person sell?
- Into which market?
- Through which channel?
- To which customers?
- Against what target?
- With what level of autonomy?
- What should success look like in the first 12–24 months?
The role specification follows the commercial requirement, rather than the other way around.
The roles we permanently recruit
Each role below is a genuinely different commercial mandate. Where an appointment is genuinely board-level, it sits within Executive Recruitment — linked below and never duplicated.
Business Development Director
Directs senior new-revenue strategy, high-value partnerships, and entry into new market segments.
Business Development Director recruitmentNational Sales Manager
Standardises and leads sales performance across regional territories to ensure consistent national execution.
National Sales Manager recruitmentExport Sales Manager
Manages multiple export markets from the UK through distributors, agents and overseas accounts.
Export Sales Manager recruitmentInternational Sales Manager
Direct international sales and account development across territories and cross-border pipelines.
International Sales Manager recruitmentKey Account Director
Strategically important accounts: senior relationships, growth, retention, commercial negotiation and multi-site development.
Key Account Director recruitmentBusiness Development Manager
Winning new customers: prospecting, pipeline creation, opening doors and early-stage account development.
Business Development Manager recruitmentSales Manager
Leads a sales team to deliver against target: coaching, activity, pipeline discipline and execution.
Sales Manager recruitmentSales Engineer
Provides technical credibility and application expertise to the sales process in engineering and manufacturing.
Sales Engineer recruitmentSpecification Sales
Recruiting the professionals who influence architects, engineers and consultants to get building products and systems specified.
Specification Sales recruitmentCountry Manager
Recruiting commercial leaders to own revenue, team performance and operations in a specific national market.
Country Manager recruitmentSenior and executive commercial appointments
Where the mandate is board-level ownership of the sales or commercial function, the appointment sits within Executive Recruitment.
Sales Director
Board-level ownership of the sales function: target market, pipeline, team, forecasting and conversion.
Permanent Sales Director recruitmentCommercial Director
Senior ownership of the whole commercial agenda — sales, marketing, pricing and key customer relationships.
Permanent Commercial Director recruitmentHead of Sales
Senior sales leadership below or alongside director level — team performance, execution and the number.
Permanent Head of Sales recruitmentWho we recruit for
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Building products and construction
- Technology
- Specialist B2B
Specialist, not generalist
Evans does not provide volume recruitment across unrelated disciplines. Recruitment is focused on executive, sales, commercial and technically commercial appointments where Evans has genuine commercial expertise — and where the appointment is connected to growth, territory development or market entry.
What do you need to hire?
Evans recruits across three distinct propositions. The difference is not the title on the advert — it is the commercial situation the appointment has to solve.
Senior executive leadership
Board-level and senior functional leadership — permanent, interim and fractional: CEO, Managing Director, CRO, Sales Director, Commercial Director, CFO, COO and Technical Director roles.
Executive RecruitmentA sales or commercial professional
Permanent sales and commercial appointments for established businesses — the people who build pipeline, win customers, manage territories and run national sales teams.
Sales & Commercial RecruitmentSomeone to build or lead a new international market
Commercial and technical recruitment connected to market entry, territory development and overseas expansion — first hires in a new market, in either direction.
International RecruitmentQuestions employers ask
Common questions
Permanent commercial appointments: Business Development Directors and Managers, National Sales Managers, Sales Managers, Export and International Sales Managers, Key Account Directors, Sales Engineers, specification sales roles and Country Managers. Board-level Sales Director, Commercial Director and Head of Sales appointments sit within Executive Recruitment and are linked from this page.
No. Evans does not provide volume recruitment across unrelated disciplines. Recruitment is focused on executive, sales, commercial and technically commercial appointments where Evans has genuine commercial expertise. We do not recruit for HR, administration, generic finance, IT support, warehouse or general office roles.
Executive Recruitment covers board-level and senior functional leadership — the people who own the commercial strategy. Sales & Commercial Recruitment covers the permanent hires who execute it: winning customers, managing territories, developing accounts and running sales teams. Where a role could sit in either, we will tell you which proposition fits the actual mandate.
International Recruitment covers appointments where the defining requirement is the target geography — a first hire in a new market, a Country Manager to establish a territory, or a technical hire connected to a market-entry plan. A UK manufacturer recruiting an Export Sales Manager to manage established overseas territories belongs here; a German manufacturer appointing its first UK Country Manager belongs in International Recruitment.
Manufacturers, engineering businesses, building-products and construction companies, technology businesses and specialist B2B organisations — the sectors Evans works in commercially. We recruit where we understand what the person will actually have to sell, and to whom.
Our work is employer-led. Commercial professionals can register with the Sales & Commercial Talent Network so we can consider them for relevant permanent appointments, but we are not a job board and do not advertise live vacancies on this site.
Sales & commercial recruitment enquiry
Discuss a sales or commercial hire
Tell us what the person must commercially achieve, and we will tell you honestly how we would approach the search — including if a different proposition fits the requirement better.
For commercial professionals
Looking for your next commercial role?
Register your profile with the Sales & Commercial Talent Network and we will consider you for relevant permanent sales and commercial appointments as they arise.