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Sales Recruitment Agency Romania

JN Recruitment is the boutique sales recruitment agency for Romania trusted by machinery, industrial technology and recycling companies. We find the Country Managers, Heads of Sales and Sales Managers who open the Romanian market — searched in Romanian, closed on Romanian terms.

  • Technical sales placements from Bucharest to Cluj, Timișoara to Constanța
  • 100% technical sales — machinery, industrial technology & recycling
  • Romanian-language executive search with Romania-specific salary benchmarks
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Our niches
  • Machinery & plant engineering
  • Industrial technology
  • Recycling & environmental technology
2–4 weeks

to your first shortlist of qualified Romanian candidates

6–10 weeks

from briefing to signed contract — typical for Romania

100% focus

technical sales roles — no generalist recruiting

30+ markets

European markets covered, Romania the largest in South-East Europe

Sales headhunter Romania

Your sales headhunter for the Romanian market

Romania is the largest market in South-East Europe and one of the EU’s fastest-growing industrial economies. Dacia and Ford build cars here, Timișoara, Cluj and Brașov have grown into dense engineering clusters, EU funds are financing waste, water and energy infrastructure at record scale — and Constanța is the Black Sea’s most important port. Every one of those developments buys machinery and environmental technology.

That is why generalist job boards rarely deliver in Romania. As a specialised sales headhunter for Romania, we approach proven technical sales professionals directly — people who carry a network of plant managers, municipal operators and distributors, and who have sold capital equipment through Romanian decision cycles before. Every search is run in Romanian, every candidate is interviewed against your niche, and every shortlist comes with verifiable track records.

Whether you need a first Country Manager to enter the market or a Head of Sales to professionalise an existing Romanian team: our executive search for sales leadership in Romania is built for one outcome — revenue responsibility in the right hands.

Positions we fill

Sales positions we recruit in Romania

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

Head of Sales Romania & South-East Europe

Leads and professionalises an existing Romanian sales organisation — often with regional scope including Bulgaria and Moldova — from pipeline discipline to key accounts.

Sales Manager Romania

Hunts new OEM and end-customer business nationwide: trade fairs, distributor management and direct sales of machinery and industrial technology.

100+ companies expanded successfully with our placements

Market knowledge

Hiring sales talent in Romania: what employers should know

Recruiting in Romania follows its own rules — from salary structure to notice periods. The essentials we brief every client on before a Romanian search starts:

12

Salary payments per year

Romanian salaries are paid in twelve monthly instalments in RON — a 13th month is not customary. Senior packages are often informally benchmarked in euros, and meal vouchers plus a company car are standard extras in field sales.

20–45

Working days of notice

When an employee resigns, statutory notice is capped at 20 working days for execution roles and 45 for management. Compared to the German three-to-six-month standard, a Romanian hire is on board remarkably fast.

90–120

Days of probation

The Labour Code allows up to 90 calendar days of probation for execution roles and 120 for management positions — enough time to see your new Sales Manager in front of real customers.

10%

Flat personal income tax

Romania taxes personal income at a flat 10% — the lowest headline rate in the EU. Net pay is high relative to gross, which matters when you benchmark a Romanian offer against Western European packages.

Salary benchmarks

Sales salaries in Romania: current benchmarks

What does sales talent cost in Romania? Annual gross salaries in RON for technical sales roles in machinery, industrial technology and recycling — twelve monthly payments, company car not included:

Position Base salary OTE (on-target earnings)
Country Manager Romania RON 300,000 – 420,000 RON 400,000 – 550,000
Head of Sales Romania RON 260,000 – 360,000 RON 340,000 – 470,000
Sales Manager Romania RON 180,000 – 250,000 RON 230,000 – 320,000
Business Development Manager RON 150,000 – 210,000 RON 190,000 – 280,000
Area / Regional Sales Manager RON 140,000 – 200,000 RON 180,000 – 260,000
Technical Sales Engineer RON 130,000 – 180,000 RON 160,000 – 230,000

Source: JN Recruitment placement and interview data, industrial B2B sales, Romania. Bucharest, Cluj and Timișoara price 10–15% above the national range.

Romania Q&A

Sales recruitment in Romania: frequently asked questions

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As a boutique sales recruitment agency for Romania, we run the full executive search for technical sales roles: direct approach of proven candidates, structured interviews and reference checks in Romanian, salary benchmarking against the Romanian market, 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 Romania: Country Manager Romania, 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 Romanian market.

Exclusively industrial B2B niches: machinery and plant engineering, the automotive supply chain around Timișoara, Brașov and Craiova, packaging and processing technology, automation, industrial components, and recycling, water and environmental technology — sectors Romania is building out with EU funding. This focus means we already know the candidates, salaries and competitors in your Romanian niche.

Generalist agencies in Romania concentrate on IT and volume hiring — and the technical sales talent you need rarely answers their adverts. A specialised sales recruitment agency for Romania starts every search with an existing network of Country Managers, Heads of Sales and Sales Engineers in your niche, knows the realistic salary for each role, and can judge a track record in capital-equipment sales rather than just matching keywords on a CV.

Our offices are in Germany, Poland and Cyprus — with Romania covered from our CEE base in Poland. Searches are run by consultants who work the Romanian market daily: direct approach and interviews in Romanian, references checked with Romanian industry contacts, and candidate meetings by video or at the sector’s trade fairs. You get local-market depth without paying local-agency generalism.

You typically receive a first shortlist within 2–4 weeks, and most Romanian positions are signed within 6–10 weeks. Romania has a structural advantage here: resignation notice is capped at 20 working days for execution roles and 45 for management — so a Romanian hire often starts months earlier than an equivalent hire in Germany or Austria.

A Sales Manager in Romanian industrial B2B typically earns RON 180,000–250,000 base and RON 230,000–320,000 on-target, annual gross. A Country Manager Romania reaches RON 400,000–550,000 OTE, a Technical Sales Engineer RON 160,000–230,000. Field roles almost always include a company car, and the flat 10% income tax keeps net pay attractive — we benchmark every mandate before the search starts.

Yes — English is standard among Romanian professionals, and as a Romance language Romanian gives many candidates working Italian or French as well; German is common in Transylvania. We verify languages in every interview. Day-to-day selling, however, happens in Romanian: plant operators and municipal buyers expect negotiations in their own language, which is exactly why we search in Romanian rather than filtering for English CVs.

Yes — that is the typical starting point of a market entry. Your first Romanian hire can be employed through an Employer of Record, a local payroll setup or an existing EU entity while your Romanian subsidiary is being established. We advise on what top candidates in Romania will accept and structure the offer accordingly.

All of them. Most mandates centre on Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara and Brașov — home to most importers and industrial buyers — but we regularly place field-based sales roles in Sibiu, Iași, Craiova and along the Black Sea coast around Constanța. Romanian technical sales is largely territory-based, so we recruit where your customers are — not just where the airports are.

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:

Candidate found — and now need a compliant way to employ them?

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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