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Sales Recruitment Agency Ireland

JN Recruitment is the boutique sales recruitment agency for Ireland trusted by machinery, industrial technology and recycling companies. We find the Country Managers, Heads of Sales and Sales Managers who turn Ireland’s dense pharma, medtech and food-processing landscape into revenue — one strong hire, the whole island.

  • Technical sales placements from Dublin to Cork, Galway to Limerick
  • 100% technical sales — machinery, industrial technology & recycling
  • Executive search benchmarked against Irish salary reality — Dublin premium included
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Our niches
  • Machinery & plant engineering
  • Industrial technology
  • Recycling & environmental technology
2–4 weeks

to your first shortlist of qualified Irish candidates

5–9 weeks

from briefing to signed contract — Irish notice periods are short

100% focus

technical sales roles — no generalist recruiting

30+ markets

European markets covered, Ireland the English-speaking gateway

Sales headhunter Ireland

Your sales headhunter for the Irish market

Ireland is a small market on the map and a large one on the order book. Few countries pack this much capital-equipment demand into five million people: pharmaceutical plants around Cork, the medtech cluster in Galway, food and dairy processors across the country — all investing continuously in machinery, automation and environmental technology. Since Brexit, Ireland is also the only English-speaking gateway left inside the EU, and international buyers treat it accordingly.

The catch is the talent pool. Ireland’s labour market is one of the tightest in Europe, and the sales engineers who understand validated processes and long capital-equipment cycles are being courted by pharma and medtech suppliers every week. As a specialised sales headhunter for Ireland, we don’t wait for applications — we approach proven technical sales professionals directly, people who already hold relationships with the plant managers, project engineers and contractors your machines are sold to.

And Ireland rewards getting it right: the geography is compact enough that a single well-chosen Country Manager can credibly cover the whole island — Dublin to Cork in under three hours, often with Northern Ireland in the same brief. One search, one hire, national coverage.

Positions we fill

Sales positions we recruit in Ireland

From the first commercial hire on the island to a full Irish sales organisation — these are the technical sales roles our recruitment agency fills in Ireland, each screened for genuine hunter mentality.

Head of Sales Ireland & UK

Leads and professionalises an existing sales organisation — Irish teams frequently carry UK scope too — from pipeline discipline to strategic key accounts.

Sales Manager Ireland

Hunts new OEM and end-customer business nationwide: plant visits, contractor and distributor relationships, and direct sales of machinery and industrial technology.

100+ companies expanded successfully with our placements

Market knowledge

Hiring sales talent in Ireland: what employers should know

Recruiting in Ireland follows its own rules — from bonus culture to notice periods. The essentials we brief every client on before an Irish search starts:

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Month of notice — typically

Statutory notice in Ireland is measured in weeks, and one month is the contractual standard for professional roles — three months only for genuinely senior contracts. Compared to the German three-to-six-month norm, an Irish hire can be selling for you remarkably fast.

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Salary payments — no 13th month

Irish gross salaries are paid in twelve monthly instalments; there is no 13th-month tradition. Instead, Ireland runs on performance bonuses — an annual or quarterly variable tied to targets is what candidates expect, so we structure OTE rather than extra fixed instalments.

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Months of probation — standard

Six months’ probation is the Irish norm for professional hires, extendable to a legal maximum of twelve in exceptional cases — comfortably enough time to see your new Sales Manager in front of real plant managers and purchasing teams.

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Unemployment — a seller’s market for talent

Ireland’s labour market runs near full employment, and pharma and medtech multinationals compete hard for anyone with technical sales credentials. Offers need to move quickly and include the expected extras — a car allowance is standard in Irish field sales, alongside pension contribution and health cover.

Salary benchmarks

Sales salaries in Ireland: current benchmarks

What does sales talent cost in Ireland? Annual gross salaries in EUR for technical sales roles in machinery, industrial technology and recycling — twelve monthly payments, car allowance and pension not included:

Position Base salary OTE (on-target earnings)
Country Manager Ireland €100,000 – 130,000 €130,000 – 175,000
Head of Sales Ireland €90,000 – 115,000 €115,000 – 150,000
Sales Manager Ireland €65,000 – 85,000 €85,000 – 110,000
Business Development Manager €55,000 – 75,000 €75,000 – 100,000
Area / Regional Sales Manager €50,000 – 70,000 €65,000 – 90,000
Technical Sales Engineer €50,000 – 65,000 €60,000 – 85,000

Source: JN Recruitment placement and interview data, industrial B2B sales, Ireland. Dublin prices 10–15% above the national range; pharma-adjacent roles around Cork trend toward the upper band.

Ireland Q&A

Sales recruitment in Ireland: frequently asked questions

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As a boutique sales recruitment agency for Ireland, we run the full executive search for technical sales roles: direct approach of proven candidates, structured interviews and reference checks with Irish industry contacts, salary benchmarking against the Irish market including the Dublin premium, and support through offer negotiation and signing. Every mandate is handled end-to-end by the consultant who took your briefing — no CV databases, no job-board reposting.

We fill technical sales and sales leadership roles across Ireland: Country Manager Ireland, Head of Sales, Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Business Development Manager and Technical Sales Engineer. Typical mandates are the first or leading commercial hire of a machinery, industrial technology or recycling company entering the Irish market — often a single national role covering the whole island.

Exclusively industrial B2B niches: machinery and plant engineering serving the pharmaceutical cluster around Cork and the Galway medtech belt, food and dairy processing technology, packaging, automation, industrial components, and recycling and environmental technology. This focus means we already know the candidates, salaries and competitors in your Irish niche.

Ireland has no shortage of generalist agencies — Dublin is full of them — but they recruit everything from accountants to developers, and the capital-equipment sales talent you need rarely answers their adverts. A specialised sales recruitment agency for Ireland starts every search with an existing network of Country Managers, Heads of Sales and Sales Engineers in your niche, knows what an Irish package must contain to compete with pharma and medtech employers, and can judge a track record in long-cycle equipment sales rather than just matching keywords on a CV.

Our offices are in Germany, Poland and Cyprus — and for Ireland that costs you nothing. Irish searches run in English, the language our consultants work in daily, so there is no translation layer anywhere in the process: direct approach, interviews and reference calls all happen natively. Candidate meetings take place by video or at the sector’s trade shows, and you get specialist depth in industrial sales instead of local-agency generalism.

You typically receive a first shortlist within 2–4 weeks, and most Irish positions are signed within 5–9 weeks. Ireland then delivers a second advantage: notice periods are short — one month is the contractual standard, three months only for senior roles — so your new hire often starts months earlier than an equivalent hire in Germany or Austria.

A Sales Manager in Irish industrial B2B typically earns €65,000–85,000 base and €85,000–110,000 on-target, annual gross. A Country Manager Ireland reaches €130,000–175,000 OTE, a Technical Sales Engineer €60,000–85,000. There is no 13th salary in Ireland — packages are built on performance bonus, car allowance, pension contribution and health cover, and Dublin prices 10–15% above the national range. We benchmark every mandate before the search starts.

Usually, yes — and most clients structure it that way. The island is compact, customers in Belfast and Derry are a day trip from Dublin, and experienced Irish sales managers are used to all-island territories. Post-Brexit there are practical differences — Northern Irish customers buy in sterling and under UK rules — so we specifically screen for candidates who have sold across both jurisdictions when the mandate calls for it.

Yes — that is the typical starting point of a market entry. Your first Irish hire can be employed through an Employer of Record, a local payroll setup or an existing EU entity while your Irish subsidiary is being established. Ireland is a popular post-Brexit base for exactly this reason, and we advise on what top candidates in Ireland will accept and structure the offer accordingly.

All of them. Most mandates centre on Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick — the capital and east, the pharma and process cluster in the south, the medtech west, and the mid-west manufacturing base around the Shannon region. Irish technical sales is largely home-office and territory-based, and distances are short, so we recruit where your customers’ plants are — which in Ireland can genuinely mean the whole island.

Across Europe

One sales recruitment playbook, every European market

The same specialised technical sales search opens every market on the continent — pick the country you are expanding into.

Hiring in several markets at once?

Hiring at leadership level? Our executive search practice:

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Fill your key sales roles across Europe — now.

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Jonas Strambach – Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
Our mission is simple: placements that open new markets.
Jonas Strambach Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
Jonas Strambach – Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment

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