Smart Moves Recruitment places permanent sales, BD, account management and commercial leadership talent for UK employers. SaaS, enterprise, field, channel and pre-sales. Vetted on outcomes, not on patter.
30-45 min intake call. Role, comp, OTE, target market, must-haves, deal-breakers.
Active and passive candidates, vetted on actual quota attainment, references and motivation.
Three to six ranked candidates, with our notes on quota record, fit and OTE expectations.
Counter-offer, notice period, start date, plus day 7 / 30 / 90 follow-ups through ramp.
From SDRs to CROs, field reps to enterprise account directors, we place sales talent across the UK who actually carry quota and hit it.
Account Executives, BDRs, SDRs for SaaS scale-ups, fintech, devtools, cybersec.
Enterprise Account Executives, strategic account directors, named-account hunters with 6-7 figure deal experience.
BDMs, business development directors, strategic-partnerships leads, new-market entry specialists.
Inside sales executives, high-volume telesales reps, lead qualification specialists, ISR leads.
Territory managers, regional sales reps, mobile sales executives, distributor reps for FMCG, building products, industrial.
Account managers, senior account managers, customer-facing AMs running renewal and expansion books.
Key account managers, strategic account directors, NAMs and global account leads.
Channel managers, partner-account managers, alliance directors, MSP and reseller-channel leads.
New-logo hunters, net-new ARR specialists, prospect-pipeline owners with documented win rates.
Heads of Sales, VPs of Sales, Sales Directors, CROs and commercial directors building or scaling teams.
CSMs, account directors with renewal targets, customer success leaders running gross-retention numbers.
Solutions engineers, pre-sales consultants, technical sales architects, demo specialists.
We brief properly, vet for actual quota performance, and stand behind the people we send.
For sales roles we screen for documented quota attainment, win rates, deal sizes, sales cycle length, and references that confirm the numbers.
Most live sales briefs receive their first qualified shortlist within a working week. Urgent backfills move to the top.
Every permanent placement carries a free replacement period. If a hire doesn't ramp, we re-run the search at no charge.
Active candidate and client networks across UK SaaS, fintech, B2B services, FMCG and industrial sales.
The consultant who takes your brief is the one who shortlists, briefs candidates, negotiates the offer, and follows up post-ramp.
We follow up at day 7, 30 and 90 to make sure the hire is ramping. Sales placements that don't ramp don't count.
A clear three-step process. No drawn-out kick-offs, no dropped balls.
A 30-45 minute briefing call. We capture the role, the comp plan, the OTE, the target market, the must-haves, the deal-breakers and the timeline.
We approach our network and active candidates, vet for documented quota attainment, interview and rank. You receive a tight shortlist with quota notes.
We handle counter-offer pressure, notice-period coordination, start-date logistics, and check in on day 7, 30 and 90 to make sure the hire is ramping.
The cities we recruit into most often. Remote-first and hybrid sales briefs equally welcome.