Sales Managers Recruitment

#1 RECRUITING SYSTEM FOR Sales Managers

There’s a reason why some of the largest companies in the world trust HyperHired to handle their sales manager recruitment – and it’s because our system works.

Build Your Winning Team: How our Recruiters Help With Sales Manager Hires

Selecting a sales manager stands as a vital business decision that companies must carefully consider. The appropriate leader enables team members to grow and establish a dependable revenue stream. An inappropriate leader selection creates demotivation among top performers, while simultaneously damaging team morale, which could result in the complete destruction of a sales team within months. 

Such a critical situation presents severe business risks, which result in extensive multi-dimensional business failure when the choice is incorrect. 

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How HyperHired Works

Our sales recruiting system has been proven to work across over 300 unique sales organizations.

1

Marketing The Opportunity

We take a deep dive into your company, then strategically advertise your sales opportunity across multiple job platforms and leverage executive search strategies to ensure the highest reach possible.

2

Pre-Qualification Screening

After generating a high-volume of applicants, we review every candidate for your exact requirements.

From there, our Recruiting Team makes direct contact with qualified candidates in order to ensure their fit for the role.

3

Scheduling of Interviews

For sales positions, we typically decline around 80% of all applicants during the screening process.

This means that you’re only meeting with the very best – we schedule them direct to your calendar and even follow up with them and provide continued support in order to minimize no-show rate.

Key Attributes of a Top-Tier Sales Leader

A sales manager who achieves excellence does not rely on their personal sales ability, but on their capacity to improve team members’ performance. Our candidate sourcing process targets specific leadership competences which distinguish superior leaders from ordinary ones. 

  • A Master Coach: Their coaching method involves both data analysis and observation to deliver precise feedback instead of generic instructions. Their expertise includes delivering coaching to calls as well as developing strategies and guiding the career growth of their team members. 
  • Process-Driven and Data-Fluent: They build and enforce a scalable sales process. Leaders who understand CRM functionality track essential metrics including conversion rates, pipeline velocity, and activity level to base their choices on data instead of personal instincts. 
  • Talent Magnet: Top leaders attract and retain A-players. Leaders who excel at developing their team members maintain a history of winning achievement and develop environments that keep their best performers both satisfied and committed to advancement. 
  • Strategic Thinker: They understand the big picture. They have strong forecasting abilities, maintain financial control, and connect daily team work to achieve company-wide revenue targets. 

Common Mistakes When Hiring a Sales Manager in the US

Companies tend to repeat the same hiring errors with sales manager hires, leading to expensive bad hiring decisions. 

  • Promoting the #1 Rep: This is the most common mistake when recruiting sales leaders. Elite sales abilities do not guarantee the same level of leadership capabilities. The assertive nature of a top closer typically opposes the necessary patient and process-oriented mindset required for leading a team. 
  • Overvaluing Industry Experience: Great industry knowledge is beneficial, yet it cannot compensate for insufficient leadership potential. It is more straightforward to train an exceptional leader about your industry rather than instruct an industry specialist to become an excellent leader. 
  • Running a Passive Process: Simply posting a job ad attracts active, often unemployed or unhappy, candidates. The most effective sales leaders maintain employment positions at success levels so hiring specialists need to proactively target them for engagement. 
  • Failing to Define a Scorecard: Organizations that fail to define their scorecards end up making hiring decisions through intuition, which leads to biased choices and poor recruitment results. 

The High Stakes When Hiring a Sales Manager

Companies persistently make unnecessary mistakes when they hire sales managers. Companies typically select their top sales performer for leadership roles under the false assumption that selling success equates to management expertise, while also using untargeted hiring procedures that miss essential traits of successful sales leaders. 

At HyperHired, we focus on helping organizations hire better sales managers. Our comprehensive, expert-led assessment process evaluates candidates beyond their resumes to discover strategic leaders who construct organizational culture and develop talent for lasting business expansion. 

How to Identify True Sales Leadership

The evaluation of these characteristics needs a complex assessment method that exceeds traditional interview techniques. True leadership emerges from actual behavior rather than impressive spoken words that an excellent individual contributor might display. 

Our evaluation process has been developed to accomplish this precise goal. Our interview process incorporates behavioral and situational questions that require candidates to demonstrate specific real-life situations. 

We ask our candidates to demonstrate their coaching abilities through questions such as: ‘Walk me through a time when you coached an underperforming rep to success’, instead of ‘Are you a good coach?’.

The interview is designed to ask candidates to show their key performance indicators they used to supervise their previous teams. This methodology allows us to separate the talkers from the true leaders, ensuring the sales leader hires we present have a proven history of building, not just selling. 

Our Proven Process for Hiring Better Sales Managers

Our hiring process aims to minimize risks while delivering exceptional leadership talent to the market. 

  • Leadership Discovery and Scorecard: The process begins with discussing your company culture, team requirements and business objectives. 
  • Proactive, Targeted Sourcing: Our team develops an exhaustive ‘Success Scorecard’ for the role after the consultation. 
  • Intensive Leadership Vetting: Our proactive recruitment strategy avoids waiting for candidates to seek us out. Our recruitment team works to discover and attract experienced sales leaders who remain passive about job opportunities among competitors and parallel industry professionals. 
  • Curated Shortlist Presentation: The carefully selected shortlist includes only a few resumes instead of numerous applications. Our presentation brings forward a restricted group of suitable candidates who have undergone extensive evaluation and match the established scorecard requirements. Our process eliminates extensive candidate screening so you can dedicate your time to evaluating top prospects. 

Frequently Asked Questions

The most common and costly mistake is promoting the top-performing salesperson to a management role without assessing their aptitude for leadership. Management requires different abilities than those needed for individual performance, so the best salespeople sometimes lack the competencies necessary to guide and build teams. 

Our assessment process depends on behavioral interviewing. Candidates must present precise stories about their coaching experiences with high-performing and underperforming representatives. The assessment includes questioning about their methods, data usage, feedback provision, and measurable results to validate their coaching skills. 

The exclusive use of internal promotions restricts your access to new potential candidates. The recruitment service provides organizations with access to multiple experienced leaders who maintain their current roles and do not actively seek new positions. Our ability to compare internal talent with market leaders allows you to choose the most qualified sales manager candidates. 

The ROI of Partnering with a Sales Manager Recruitment Firm 

A poor sales manager appointment could create massive financial losses, which include revenue reduction and team member departures, as well as recruitment expenses and cultural deterioration that can reach above $500,000 in the first year. 

Investing in specialist recruitment firms for critical positions delivers a definitive business advantage. Your organization will receive a superior candidate selection through our process which takes less time and presents reduced recruitment risks. The hiring process serves to find more than a candidate, since it determines your sales team’s long-term success. 

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