Industrial Tech & IIoT sales recruitment in Warrington
Retained search for industrial-tech commercial leaders, with hybrid industrial / SaaS profiles at the centre of the brief. On the ground in Warrington and across the wider North West industrial tech & iiot 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 is the most credible single industrial-tech commercial base in the North West outside Manchester thanks to the combination of Sellafield supply chain, United Utilities in-house programmes and the Sci-Tech Daresbury vendor cluster. Cleared-nuclear industrial-tech commercial profiles concentrate here in a way that no other Northern town can match.
Sellafield Ltd (digital programmes)
Nuclear industrial-tech
Substantial Warrington-based nuclear digital and industrial-tech commercial roles.
Sci-Tech Daresbury (industrial-tech tenants)
Industrial-tech ecosystem
Daresbury campus anchoring a growing industrial- and deep-tech vendor base.
United Utilities (digital programmes)
Utilities industrial-tech
Warrington HQ with substantial in-house industrial-tech and IIoT commercial roles.
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.
Warrington salary nuance
Warrington industrial-tech commercial salaries match Manchester for equivalent seats, with cleared-nuclear and utilities industrial-tech roles attracting a 10-15% retention premium driven by scarcity and security-clearance lead times.
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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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.
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.
Email Rachel Lunn and the team. We will reply within one working day with a Warrington-specific industrial tech & iiot 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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