SaaS & B2B Software gtm recruitment in Warrington
RevOps, Sales Engineering, GTM Engineering, Demand Gen and Enablement hires for B2B SaaS scale-ups. We help scope the seat as well as fill it, particularly for first-of-kind hires. On the ground in Warrington and across the wider North West saas & b2b software cluster.
Warrington's position at the M6/M62 intersection makes it one of the most commercially well-connected towns in the UK. The Birchwood and Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus host a substantial cluster of nuclear, defence and digital R&D employers. The town has a meaningful FinTech back-office presence, plus a growing community of B2B SaaS and managed-services employers around the town centre. Warrington's location pulls regularly from both Manchester and Liverpool catchments.
Warrington's SaaS commercial market sits between Manchester and Liverpool and pulls talent from both. TalkTalk Technology and the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus give the town a credible enterprise-SaaS and deep-tech commercial bench, with M6 / M62 / M56 access making it an unusually flexible base for senior commercial leaders covering both city regions.
TalkTalk Technology
Telco SaaS
Major Warrington-area commercial and product base for the telco group.
SCIEX (Danaher)
Scientific instruments SaaS adjacency
Warrington-based commercial team with growing software-and-services revenue.
Sci-Tech Daresbury (SaaS tenants)
Tech ecosystem
Sci-Tech Daresbury campus anchor for industrial- and deep-tech SaaS scale-ups.
SaaS commercial talent supply at SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager level is now genuinely competitive in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield, with healthy graduate inflow. Senior SaaS leadership (Sales Director and above) is thinner and most strong candidates are passive, equity-locked and approached on warm referrals. Hybrid working two or three days a week is the dominant pattern for senior SaaS roles in the North; full-remote is more common in pure scale-ups than in PE-backed businesses.
SaaS comp in the North runs broadly 10-20% below London for equivalent seats but the gap closes at CRO and VP level where the market is genuinely national. A typical Series A-Series B Head of Sales in Leeds or Manchester earns £90k-£130k base with OTE £140k-£200k. CRO seats in PE-backed Northern SaaS businesses commonly hit £150k-£200k base with OTE of £250k-£400k plus equity.
Warrington salary nuance
Warrington SaaS commercial salaries run broadly in line with Manchester for equivalent seats. Daresbury-based deep-tech SaaS commercial roles attract a modest premium driven by scarcity of senior leaders fluent in scientific and industrial buyer cycles.
Warrington Bank Quay and Central give direct services to Manchester (30 min), Liverpool (25 min) and London (under 2hr). The M6, M62 and M56 intersect within minutes of the town.
How we work
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Before we recruit, we pressure-test the role itself against your GTM operating model. Many businesses ask for a GTM Engineer when they actually need a RevOps Lead, or vice versa. This step saves a six-figure mis-hire.
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We build a role scorecard that captures cross-functional accountabilities (sales, marketing, finance, product) and the systems environment the person will own (CRM, MAP, data warehouse, attribution).
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GTM talent is concentrated in a narrow set of scale-ups and consultancies. We map it deliberately, including in your region, and approach passive candidates with a clear narrative about the problem to be solved.
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Two screens: one commercial (impact delivered, cross-functional credibility, business judgement) and one technical (tooling fluency, data literacy, systems design where relevant).
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Considered shortlist plus a 30-60-90 integration plan. GTM hires fail when they are dropped into an unclear matrix without authority. We build the authority lines into the offer.
FAQs
Yes. We support both pre-Series A scale-ups (often via fractional CRO before a permanent hire) and PE-backed SaaS businesses through retained executive search. Our partners have personally led commercial functions in both stages.
Broadly 10-20% below London at SDR, AE and Director level for equivalent seats. The gap closes materially at VP and CRO level, where the market is national and most candidates compare across regions.
Yes, increasingly so. Hybrid working, the cost-of-living differential and the maturity of the Northern SaaS scene make Leeds and Manchester credible bases for senior London-resident commercial talent. Evara has run multiple successful searches on this model.
Cost base, equal-time access to both Manchester and Liverpool talent pools, and the M6/M62 motorway intersection. For B2B businesses serving the wider North West, Warrington is often a more efficient HQ than central Manchester.
Nuclear and defence (anchored by Sellafield Ltd), utilities (United Utilities), FMCG (Heinz), B2B telco and managed services, and a growing layer of B2B SaaS around Birchwood.
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Email Rachel Lunn and the team. We will reply within one working day with a Warrington-specific saas & b2b software market read for the role you have in mind.
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Sales recruitment, GTM recruitment and revenue advisory for SMEs UK-wide. We reply within one working day.
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