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Sales Recruitment Agency Spain

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

  • Technical sales placements from Madrid to Bilbao, Barcelona to Sevilla
  • 100% technical sales — machinery, industrial technology & recycling
  • Spanish-language executive search with Spain-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 Spanish candidates

6–10 weeks

from briefing to signed contract — typical for Spain

100% focus

technical sales roles — no generalist recruiting

30+ markets

European markets covered, Spain among the most requested

Sales headhunter Spain

Your sales headhunter for the Spanish market

Spain is the fourth-largest economy in the European Union — and one of the most rewarding markets for industrial companies that get their first sales hire right. Machinery imports are growing, the recycling sector is scaling fast on EU circular-economy targets, and buyers from Barcelona to Bilbao still decide the traditional way: in Spanish, in person, on trust.

That is why generalist job boards rarely deliver in Spain. As a specialised sales headhunter for Spain, we approach proven technical sales professionals directly — people who carry a network of plant operators, OEMs and distributors, and who have sold capital equipment through Spanish decision cycles before. Every search is run in Spanish, 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 Spanish team: our executive search for sales leadership in Spain is built for one outcome — revenue responsibility in the right hands.

Positions we fill

Sales positions we recruit in Spain

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

Head of Sales Spain & Iberia

Leads and professionalises an existing Spanish sales organisation — often with Iberia scope including Portugal — from pipeline discipline to key accounts.

Sales Manager Spain

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 Spain: what employers should know

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

14

Salary payments per year

Spanish gross salaries are commonly paid in 14 instalments — twelve monthly payments plus two “pagas extraordinarias” in summer and at Christmas. We always quote annual gross so your Spanish offers stay comparable with the rest of Europe.

15–90

Days of notice — not months

The statutory notice period is just 15 days, and even senior sales contracts rarely exceed one to three months. Compared to the German three-to-six-month standard, a Spanish hire can be on board remarkably fast.

6

Months of probation

Indefinite contracts (“contrato indefinido”) are the standard for professional roles, with up to six months’ probation for qualified specialists — enough time to see your new Sales Manager in front of real customers.

70/30

Typical base-to-variable split

Spanish industrial sales packages usually run 70–80% fixed salary, with a company car effectively universal in field sales. Pure-commission models that work elsewhere will not attract serious technical sales talent in Spain.

Salary benchmarks

Sales salaries in Spain: current benchmarks

What does sales talent cost in Spain? Annual gross salaries in EUR for technical sales roles in machinery, industrial technology and recycling — 14 payments consolidated, company car not included:

Position Base salary OTE (on-target earnings)
Country Manager Spain €90,000 – 120,000 €120,000 – 160,000
Head of Sales Spain €80,000 – 110,000 €105,000 – 145,000
Sales Manager Spain €55,000 – 75,000 €70,000 – 100,000
Business Development Manager €45,000 – 65,000 €60,000 – 90,000
Area / Regional Sales Manager €45,000 – 60,000 €60,000 – 80,000
Technical Sales Engineer €40,000 – 55,000 €50,000 – 70,000

Source: JN Recruitment placement and interview data, industrial B2B sales, Spain. Madrid, Barcelona and the Basque Country price 10–15% above the national range.

Spain Q&A

Sales recruitment in Spain: frequently asked questions

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

Exclusively industrial B2B niches: machinery and plant engineering — including the Basque machine-tool cluster and ceramics machinery around Castellón — plus packaging and processing technology in Catalonia, automation, industrial components, and recycling and environmental technology. This focus means we already know the candidates, salaries and competitors in your Spanish niche.

Generalist agencies in Spain cover every function from finance to IT — and the technical sales talent you need rarely answers their adverts. A specialised sales recruitment agency for Spain 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 — and that is deliberate. Searches for Spain are run by Spanish-speaking consultants who work the market daily: direct approach and interviews in Spanish, references checked with Spanish 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 Spanish positions are signed within 6–10 weeks. Spain has a structural advantage here: notice periods are short — 15 days by statute, one to three months for senior contracts — so a Spanish hire often starts months earlier than an equivalent hire in Germany or Austria.

A Sales Manager in Spanish industrial B2B typically earns €55,000–75,000 base and €70,000–100,000 on-target, annual gross. A Country Manager Spain reaches €120,000–160,000 OTE, a Technical Sales Engineer €50,000–70,000. Spanish salaries are quoted in 14 payments and almost always include a company car in field roles — we benchmark every mandate before the search starts.

In export-driven industries, sales leaders usually speak good English — it is a standard requirement in our Spanish searches and we verify it in every interview. Day-to-day selling, however, happens in Spanish: plant operators and technical buyers expect negotiations in their own language, which is exactly why we search in Spanish rather than filtering for English CVs.

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

All of them. Most mandates centre on Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Zaragoza, but we regularly place field-based sales roles in Andalusia, Galicia, Navarre and along the Levante coast. Spanish technical sales is largely home-office and 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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