Industrial Tech & IIoT sales recruitment in Burnley
Retained search for industrial-tech commercial leaders, with hybrid industrial / SaaS profiles at the centre of the brief. On the ground in Burnley and across the wider North West industrial tech & iiot cluster.
Burnley's commercial profile is dominated by advanced manufacturing, aerospace and automotive supply, with a long heritage in textiles and engineering that has matured into a serious cluster of precision and aerospace tier-one suppliers. The Burnley Bridge Business Park, the Vision Park development at the University of Central Lancashire's Burnley campus, and the AMS Neve and Safran Nacelles sites anchor a manufacturing-led economy. The On The Banks regeneration scheme around the canal and the M65 corridor has also drawn in B2B services, logistics and a small but growing layer of industrial-tech and IIoT scale-ups serving the surrounding manufacturing base.
Burnley is too small to host an industrial-tech vendor base of its own, but it functions as one of the densest industrial-tech buyer concentrations in the North West thanks to the local aerospace and advanced-manufacturing cluster. Industrial-tech commercial roles based in or commuting to Burnley typically sell into a tight, named target list of local manufacturers.
AMS Neve
Pro-audio engineering with software crossover
Burnley HQ for the global broadcast and studio console manufacturer.
Velocity Composites
Aerospace materials with industrial-tech adoption
Burnley-listed advanced composites business adopting industrial software.
Senior Aerospace Weston
Aerospace tier-one
Major industrial-tech reference customer.
Industrial-tech commercial supply is small but unusually high quality, drawing on hybrid backgrounds that combine industrial-sector tenure with SaaS GTM experience. Most senior candidates are passive and approached on warm referrals.
Industrial-tech commercial salaries broadly track SaaS for equivalent seats, with a mild premium where the role explicitly requires industrial-sector fluency.
Burnley salary nuance
Burnley industrial-tech commercial salaries match the Manchester benchmark for senior seats — most senior commercial leaders working this patch are Manchester- or Preston-resident and operate the East Lancashire cluster as a defined territory.
Burnley Manchester Road and Burnley Central give direct services to Preston (45 min) and onward to Manchester (90 min). The M65 connects directly to Blackburn (15 min), Preston (30 min) and the wider M6 / M61 network into Greater Manchester.
How we work
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We start with a structured kick-off that captures the commercial objective, not just the title. Reporting line, comp envelope, the deal sizes the person will sell, the buyers they will sell to, and the behaviours that will succeed in your environment.
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We map where the right people actually sit, across direct competitors, adjacent industries and proven environments in your region. This becomes the long-list of candidates we approach, not just whoever is on the job boards this week.
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Candidates are approached with a clear commercial narrative, not a job advert. We communicate the opportunity, the leadership environment, the expectations and the growth path, so only genuinely relevant people move forward.
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Two structured commercial screens before a candidate ever reaches you. Track record validation, deal-stage probing, motivation, and a credibility check on the numbers they have actually delivered.
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You receive a considered shortlist, not a CV flood. Each candidate is presented with strengths, potential risks and a fit assessment. We then support the process through to offer, acceptance and the first 90 days.
FAQs
Industrial software, IIoT, MES, predictive maintenance and digital-manufacturing platforms — anything that sells software or a software-enabled service into a manufacturing or process-industries buyer.
For industrial, aerospace, automotive supply and B2B manufacturing-tech businesses, Burnley offers one of the deepest and most loyal technical-sales talent pools in the North West, anchored by Safran Nacelles, AMS Neve, VEKA and a long-standing aerospace tier-one cluster. Cost base sits well below Manchester for equivalent commercial seats.
Aerospace and defence, advanced manufacturing, automotive supply, precision engineering and a growing layer of industrial software (IIoT, MES, predictive maintenance) serving the surrounding manufacturing base.
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Email Rachel Lunn and the team. We will reply within one working day with a Burnley-specific industrial tech & iiot market read for the role you have in mind.
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