Professional Services sector
Leeds is the second-largest professional services centre in the UK by employment, with Manchester close behind. Together they host a deep base of legal, accounting, advisory and consulting employers, alongside a growing community of professional-services-tech vendors. Commercial roles in this market combine partnership-style relationship management with increasingly structured BD and account-management functions.
Professional services commercial roles are increasingly being professionalised. Evara's partners have placed Heads of BD, Marketing Directors and Client Service Directors into legal, accounting and consultancy firms across the North.
Addleshaw Goddard
Legal
Major Leeds legal employer.
Eversheds Sutherland
Legal
Substantial Leeds legal commercial team.
PwC
Accounting / Advisory
Major Leeds and Manchester employer.
Deloitte
Accounting / Advisory
Major Leeds and Manchester employer.
Professional services commercial supply is deep in Leeds and Manchester at Head of BD and Marketing Director level. Senior commercial leadership in this market is heavily passive and tends to move on long incentive cycles.
Professional services commercial salaries in the North run slightly below SaaS for equivalent seats but include longer-tenure incentive structures.
Yorkshire
Leeds is the gravity centre of Yorkshire professional services commercial roles, with York adding a smaller specialist layer.
North West
Manchester anchors North West professional services commercial roles, with Liverpool and Chester adding regional specialist depth.
Services
Retained search for senior professional services commercial leaders, with partnership-firm fluency as a standard part of the profile.
Bid management, RevOps and marketing operations hires for professionalising firms.
Strategic Revenue Audit and fractional commercial leadership for firms professionalising their BD function.
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Yes. Head of BD and Marketing Director roles in legal, accounting and consultancy firms are a recurring part of our work, particularly in Leeds and Manchester.
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