Five-Stage Sales Team Scaling System©

You don’t just need a hire — you need a sales team that closes.
We go beyond recruitment — we build high-performance sales teams.
At The Sales Experts, our team of expert headhunters — each with over a decade of experience — works alongside proprietary AI Agents to deliver stronger, faster results. Our proven five-stage process doesn’t just fill vacancies — it fuels growth.

1. Stage One: Establish Search Parameters

We begin by digging deep into the realities of your business and role:

• What outcomes truly define success?
• Where are your current challenges?
• Which skills and competencies matter most?

We create a tailored role and candidate blueprint that aligns with your objectives, success metrics, and company context, and we’re not afraid to challenge assumptions if it leads to better outcomes.

2. Stage Two: Determine Search Strategy

We don’t just search — we strategically map the market:

• Targeted outreach based on track record and potential
• Cross-sector insight to expand the pool
• Tap into off-market referrals and hidden talent

This approach creates a high-quality, tightly matched longlist, giving you real options from day one.

3. Stage Three: Conduct an Exhaustive Search and Assessment

We assess, not just screen. Every candidate undergoes:

• Structured, competency-based interviews
• Proprietary Sales Hunter Intelligence Evaluation©
• Culture and performance alignment scoring

Only those who meet the brief and show exceptional potential make the shortlist, saving you time and increasing the chance of a successful hire.

4. Stage Four: Present Finalists for Client Interviews

You receive:

• A curated shortlist with full Sales Assessment Profiles
• Original, unedited CVs for full transparency
• Informed references and third-party market insight

We make your decision process easier and smarter.

5. Stage Five: Complete Search & Onboarding Support

We stay with you beyond the hire:

• Manage the offer and contract stages
• Provide onboarding support and regular check-ins (30/60/90 days)
• Deliver post-placement reviews to ensure lasting success

With us, you get a partner, not just a placement.

Ready to Scale Your Sales Team? Let’s talk. No obligation, just expert advice on how to move forward — fast.

What Makes Us Different?

Experienced Experts Only

Every search is led by senior headhunters who specialise in sales and have worked with us for 10+ years.

AI-Augmented Search Power

Our proprietary AI Agents speed up research, targeting, and shortlisting — so you get results faster..

Zero Fluff, Real Results

Every candidate is assessed, reference-checked, and presented exactly as they are. No edits. No spin.

The Sales Experts delivers expert global sales recruitment on five continents and more than 30 countries. We are headquartered in Canary Wharf, London with satellite offices in Manchester, Paris, Madrid, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sydney and Melbourne.

Our core philosophy is that the best salespeople are rarely, if ever, looking for work – they are working.

So, if you want to hire the best sales talent, placing job advertisements or searching résumé/CV databases won’t get results.

We headhunt. We go directly to the top performers in your industry and enthusiastically pitch them on your opportunity.

The clear difference is our focus is headhunting mid-level to senior Sales Professionals, Head-of-Sales and Sales Director roles with a proven track record of success.

Our head-hunting recruitment approach targets salespeople with:

• A proven track record of measured success
• A background that aligns with the defined role
• Solid career without red flags
• A sales-hunter personality

Our direct to candidate approach also speeds up our search results.

We deliver:

• Search of the best available candidates providing you with as many candidates as you need
• In-depth assessment
• Telephone, Video and in-person screening interviews before presenting CVs
• Sales Management aptitude and personality assessment (on request)
• Checking of all references
• Credit checks and criminal checks if required (fees may apply)
• Scheduling of all interviews
• Present all offers
• A three-month guarantee if the candidate leaves for any reason, whatsoever, within three months of active employment we will deliver a new search at no cost.

At The Sales Experts we manage all aspects of the recruitment process to help you hire your industry’s best performers.

That is why our success rate is 99% – contact us today!

Sales Headhunting

• The strongest sales talent simply don’t apply for jobs
• The best sales talent will be only found by disciplined head-hunters prepared to research the market and actively target the best available sales talent.
• We headhunt the best mid-level to senior salespeople, head-of-sales and sales directors.

Sales Process Consulting

• When a business understands who is the ideal customer, where to find them, and how to sell to them the result is success.
• We leverage years of experience working with hundreds of businesses – including a number of Fortune Global 500 companies – to help find the ‘sales sweet spot’ in your business. This ‘sales sweet spot’ is key to developing your business and scaling opportunities.

Bespoke and Program Sales Training

• Sales training developed by professional presenters is mostly a waste of time. Your strongest sales people will mostly ignore the message and your weakest salespeople lack the tools to implement the lessons.
• The motivation is great and will result in short-term bumps in productivity but salespeople need real strategies and tools that they can actually use.
• We  have decades of real sales experience both on the telephone and in the field. Our Cold Call training was created after we invested months on the telephone booking real appointment for our clients in a variety of sectors. We tested our strategies by selling and when our success rate approached 100% we built our sales courses.
• All salespeople with the full spectrum of sales skills will benefit from our programs. Updated programs will soon be available. Watch for details.