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Sales Recruitment Agency Turkey

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

  • Technical sales placements from Istanbul to Ankara, Bursa to Izmir
  • 100% technical sales — machinery, industrial technology & recycling
  • Turkish-language executive search with Turkey-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 Turkish candidates

6–10 weeks

from briefing to signed contract — typical for Turkey

100% focus

technical sales roles — no generalist recruiting

30+ markets

markets covered, Turkey the industrial bridge between Europe and Asia

Sales headhunter Turkey

Your sales headhunter for the Turkish market

Turkey is an industrial heavyweight hiding in plain sight: 85 million consumers, a customs union with the EU, and one of the world’s largest manufacturing bases for automotive, white goods, textiles and machinery. The Marmara region around Istanbul, Bursa and Kocaeli alone out-produces most EU member states — and every plant, mill and processing line there buys equipment.

It is also a market you cannot enter with job adverts. As a specialised sales headhunter for Turkey, we approach proven technical sales professionals directly — people who carry a network of factory owners, OEMs and distributors, and who have sold capital equipment through Turkish decision cycles before. Every search is run in Turkish, 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 Turkish team: our executive search for sales leadership in Turkey is built for one outcome — revenue responsibility in the right hands.

Positions we fill

Sales positions we recruit in Turkey

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 Turkey, each screened for genuine hunter mentality.

Head of Sales Turkey, Middle East & Central Asia

Leads and professionalises an existing Turkish sales organisation — often with export scope into the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia — from pipeline discipline to key accounts.

Sales Manager Turkey

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 Turkey: what employers should know

Recruiting in Turkey follows its own rules — from salary structure to severance obligations. The essentials we brief every client on before a Turkish search starts:

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FX-indexed senior packages

Because of lira volatility, senior industrial sales packages are routinely benchmarked — and often contractually indexed — in euros or dollars. We quote Turkish benchmarks in EUR so your offers stay stable and comparable.

2–8

Weeks of statutory notice

Statutory notice (ihbar) scales with tenure from two to eight weeks. Compared to the German three-to-six-month standard, a Turkish hire can be on board remarkably fast.

1

Month of severance per year served

Employees with over a year of service earn statutory severance (kıdem tazminatı) of roughly one gross monthly salary per year served, payable by the employer on most terminations — a cost factor to plan into any Turkish employment budget.

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Months of probation

The Labour Code allows two months’ probation, extendable to four under collective agreements — shorter than in most EU markets, which makes structured references and track-record checks before signing all the more important.

Salary benchmarks

Sales salaries in Turkey: current benchmarks

What does sales talent cost in Turkey? Annual gross salaries for technical sales roles in machinery, industrial technology and recycling, quoted in EUR because senior Turkish packages are routinely FX-indexed — company car not included:

Position Base salary OTE (on-target earnings)
Country Manager Turkey €70,000 – 100,000 €95,000 – 135,000
Head of Sales Turkey €60,000 – 85,000 €80,000 – 115,000
Sales Manager Turkey €40,000 – 60,000 €55,000 – 85,000
Business Development Manager €35,000 – 50,000 €45,000 – 70,000
Area / Regional Sales Manager €30,000 – 45,000 €40,000 – 60,000
Technical Sales Engineer €28,000 – 42,000 €38,000 – 55,000

Source: JN Recruitment placement and interview data, industrial B2B sales, Turkey. Istanbul and the Marmara industrial belt price 10–15% above the national range.

Turkey Q&A

Sales recruitment in Turkey: frequently asked questions

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As a boutique sales recruitment agency for Turkey, we run the full executive search for technical sales roles: direct approach of proven candidates, structured interviews and reference checks in Turkish, salary benchmarking against the Turkish 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 Turkey: Country Manager Turkey, 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 Turkish market — often with export scope beyond it.

Exclusively industrial B2B niches: machinery and plant engineering, the automotive cluster around Bursa and Kocaeli, packaging and processing technology for food and textiles, automation, industrial components, and recycling and environmental technology. This focus means we already know the candidates, salaries and competitors in your Turkish niche.

Turkey has a huge recruitment market — but it is built around volume hiring. The technical sales talent you need rarely answers adverts. A specialised sales recruitment agency for Turkey 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 Turkey covered from our Eastern Mediterranean base in Larnaca, a short flight from Istanbul. Searches are run by consultants who work the Turkish market daily: direct approach and interviews in Turkish, references checked with Turkish industry contacts, and candidate meetings by video or at the sector’s trade fairs.

You typically receive a first shortlist within 2–4 weeks, and most Turkish positions are signed within 6–10 weeks. Statutory notice periods of two to eight weeks work in your favour — a Turkish hire often starts months earlier than an equivalent hire in Germany or Austria.

A Sales Manager in Turkish industrial B2B typically earns the equivalent of €40,000–60,000 base and €55,000–85,000 on-target, annual gross — senior packages are routinely benchmarked or indexed in euros or dollars because of lira volatility. A Country Manager Turkey reaches €95,000–135,000 OTE, a Technical Sales Engineer €38,000–55,000. We benchmark every mandate before the search starts.

In export-driven industries, senior sales professionals usually speak good English, and German is common thanks to the deep business ties between Turkey and Germany — we verify both in every interview. Day-to-day selling, however, happens in Turkish: factory owners and technical buyers expect negotiations in their own language, which is exactly why we search in Turkish rather than filtering for English CVs.

Yes — that is the typical starting point of a market entry. Your first Turkish hire can be employed through an Employer of Record or a local payroll setup while your Turkish subsidiary or liaison office is being established. We advise on what top candidates in Turkey will accept — including FX-indexed compensation — and structure the offer accordingly.

All of them. Most mandates centre on Istanbul and the Marmara industrial belt around Bursa and Kocaeli — Turkey’s manufacturing heartland — plus Izmir and the Aegean, Ankara and the Anatolian production cities such as Konya, Kayseri and Gaziantep. Turkish 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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