Our Services

We build sales teams and we fill sales roles.

Sales search and executive sales recruiting since 2023, worked passively, because the best person out there is almost never the best person that applied. Our network is deepest in building and home products, construction supply and distribution, and residential real estate.

How We Engage

Two ways to buy a sales hire

Sales Search

For the single hire. Retained, or partly retained

Chief revenue officer, VP of sales, national accounts director, commercial director, sales director, general manager, country manager, and the people who own a distributor, dealer or big-box relationship. This is a passive search: we map the market rather than advertise the role, because the people worth hiring are working and exceeding their number. Difficulty is the assignment, not the exception. Calibration on what a true hunter looks like in the seat, then a market map you actually see, then a shortlist with our reasoning attached, then we stay involved through the offer and the first ninety days. Run with your identity protected until you choose to reveal it.

  • Passive sourcing, not an advertised role
  • Client identity protected
  • Exclusive, fully committed search
  • Executive assessment & referencing

Building a Sales Team

For a population

Field sales, territory representatives and commission-only agents, hired against an agreed profile. A whole desk, a new region, or a commission-only force built from nothing. Success-based and fast. No fee until you hire.

  • No fee until a hire is made
  • A realistic first-slate date, agreed at calibration
  • Full market mapping, worked passively

Construction, finance and insurance, IT and technology, healthcare and legal, contract staffing and augmentation, contract-to-hire, the AI and data science bench, and the design practice are still here, at Other Desks. Each of these has its own page, so you can go straight to the one you need.

Confidential Mandates

Discretion is a capability, not a courtesy

Some searches can't be public: a build the market shouldn't see coming, a replacement the team hasn't been told about, a move a competitor would love to know. We run confidential mandates as a discipline.

Confidential from the first call

We treat what you tell us as confidential before you tell us anything, and we say so up front rather than after.

Protected client identity

Candidates learn who you are when you decide they should.

Blind outreach done right

Compelling enough to move a passive executive, revealing nothing.

Candidate discretion, both directions

The people we approach trust us with their careers; that's why they answer.

What we're trusted with stays trusted, during the search and after it.

Replacing Someone Who Is Still In The Seat

A normal reason to call. An uncomfortable one to explain.

We run those searches without your name attached until the shortlist is real.

Every Engagement Includes

A complete, rigorous search

Full mapping of the market that matters for the role

We identify every credible candidate in the market, not just those who apply. The best person out there is almost never the best person that applied.

Passive-first engagement

Most searches are passive. The people worth hiring are working and exceeding their number, so we go to them rather than wait for an application.

Hunters, named as such

We separate the people who open accounts from the people who hold them, and we tell you which one each name on the shortlist is.

Cultural DNA mapping

Every candidate is vetted for functional excellence and long-term organizational fit.

Curated shortlist

You receive at least three pre-interviewed candidates: a shortlist, never a stack.

Offer & onboarding support

We manage offers, counteroffers, transitions, and the first 90 days.

90-day replacement guarantee

If a placement leaves or is terminated for performance within 90 days, we run the replacement search at no additional fee.

Fees & Engagement

Aligned to your outcome, not ours

Credited
Retainer on a priority search
A focused search carries a per-market retainer, credited in full against the placement fee. It buys exclusivity and sequencing, not admin.
90 days
Replacement guarantee
A replacement search at no further fee if a hire does not stick.

Search is retained, or partly retained: a portion of the fee committed at kickoff in exchange for exclusivity and priority focus, with the balance due on placement. What is and is not covered by the ninety-day replacement guarantee is set out in the engagement letter, and we send that before you commit to anything.

If you are weighing the models against each other, we wrote up the difference in retained, container or contingency.

The Guarantee

What the ninety days actually covers

If the placement leaves, or is terminated for performance, within ninety days of the start date, we run a replacement search at no further fee. The specific terms, including what is not covered, are set out in your engagement letter, and we send that before you commit to anything.

Ready to fill a hard role?

Tell us about the seat. We'll come back with a market read and a plan, at no cost and no obligation.

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