Our Professional, Consultative Approach

We strive to provide, a truly, consultative, added-value service in a structured and professional way. Our goal is to become a trusted partner for your business.

Our History

Sales Recruit UK was established in early 2009 with a clear objective: to transform the world of recruitment by providing comprehensive and genuinely value-added services to employers seeking the finest sales talent across the United Kingdom.

Unlike many other run-of-the-mill recruitment consultancies that simply peruse job boards and shuffle CVs to potential employers, we take great pride in delivering a distinct and truly valuable service. We firmly believe that sourcing the best sales professionals requires a more refined approach.

At the helm of our organisation are two leaders, Derek Anderson and Robert McGougan, both well-respected figures in the field of sales recruitment. With an impressive combined experience of over forty years, they have honed their expertise through various roles across the UK. Both Derek and Robert are seasoned recruiters who have risen through the ranks from Consultant to Director in various prestigious companies, accumulating an unparalleled reservoir of knowledge in the art of recruiting sales professionals.

Sales Recruit UK’s unwavering commitment to excellence is reflected in our approach to identifying the best sales talent for your organisation. Our professional and value-centric strategy ensures that we delve deeper to connect you with the ideal candidates who will not only meet but exceed your expectations.

When you collaborate with Sales Recruit UK, you’re not just engaging with a recruitment agency – you’re forming a partnership built on expertise, dedication, and a profound understanding of the sales industry. Whether you’re embarking on a quest to find salespeople or eager to hire sales talent, our agency is your trusted ally.

In an era where the demand for sales recruitment agencies is on the rise, Sales Recruit UK sets the gold standard for excellence, ensuring that your search for top-tier sales professionals is both efficient and rewarding. Elevate your recruitment experience with us and discover the difference of a truly value-added approach.

Robert McGougan

With over twenty years recruitment experience across the UK and Ireland, Robert is a well-known and respected executive sales recruiter across a variety of markets including Construction, Industrial, Business Services, IT and Oil & Gas.

With a wealth of management and leadership experience, Robert’s straight talking and honest approach is integral in shaping Sales Recruit UK’s value proposition and service offering.

Robert’s spare time is taken up with his family and he can often be found at various show-jumping events across the country as he proudly supports his daughter. When he has time to himself, he enjoys playing a round of golf and watching most sports.

Derek Anderson

Derek has over twenty years recruitment consultancy experience, preceded by three years working as a commercial sales representative within the insurance market and three years as an engineer.

An engineering graduate, he has worked within recruitment at a variety of levels, from Consultant to Director level for a number of firms across the whole of the country. He offers a direct approach, managing expectations of all stakeholders within the recruitment process.

Married with two children and particularly noisy dog, his spare time is usually filled with family activities and on the rare occasion he has time to himself, if he’s not enjoying a road trip in a car, he usually has his head under the bonnet of one!

At Sales Recruit UK we specialize in business-to-business sales opportunities. Most of the positions that we handle tend to be of a technical nature. Whether these are within Construction products and services, Engineering, or Information Technology, the positions that we cover and the people whom we work with tend to have a technical element to them and involve a problem solving or consultation-based sales process.

Sales Recruit UK is a sales recruitment agency for those who have already started to build up their skills and experience within a sales environment. Our core business centres around territory management, field sales positions, and we also cover sales related positions in UK across a variety of levels from internal sales (or tele-sales) up to managerial posts.

If you are an employer looking for assistance with recruitment for sales people, contact us for an initial consultation.

Unfortunately we do not offer entry level or graduate assistance. If you are someone looking to break into sales from a different career path, (unless you have product experience within a particular sector and are looking to move into a sales role within it) we are sorry, but it is doubtful that we are the best recruitment company to help you.

We are particularly successful at mid-level sales professional positions within niche markets, so if you have a track record in a particular technical space we would be very keen to hear from you.

How we work

We provide nationwide expertise by networking with strong salespeople in various vertical markets throughout the whole of the UK. Expertise in the geographic area, the challenges within a particular market sector, and expertise in properly assessing candidates to make sure that the positions we offer are right for them, as well as making sure that they are right for those positions themselves.

We have strong candidate networks of salespeople at all levels from Sales Director and National Sales Manager through to Regional Sales Team Managers and Salespeople. We are particularly strong in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Wales and the Midlands.

Our Professional, Consultative Approach

Our History

Sales Recruit UK Management Team

Robert McGougan

Derek Anderson

Our Specialisms

How we work

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