COMMERCIAL
Commercial Recruitment for Growth & Investment-Backed Businesses
COMMERCIAL ROLES WE RECRUIT
Building the commercial teams that turn opportunity into growth
Growth creates different commercial challenges at different stages. A business may need its first senior sales leader, an experienced CRO to build a scalable revenue function, or marketing leadership capable of sharpening positioning and accelerating demand.
We recruit commercial professionals who can build, lead and develop the functions responsible for revenue and customer growth.
Chief Revenue Officer Recruitment
Revenue strategy
Scaling commercial teams
Go-to-market
Board and investor environments
Sales Director and Sales Leadership Recruitment
Marketing Director and Marketing Leadership Recruitment
Marketing requirements often change substantially as a business grows: what begins as a relatively tactical function may need to develop into leadership across brand, positioning, demand generation and go-to-market strategy.
We recruit marketing leaders who understand how marketing needs to support the wider commercial strategy, whether the priority is building brand, generating demand, entering new markets or supporting a scaling sales function.
For growing businesses, that often means finding people who combine strategic thinking with a willingness to stay close to execution.
Partnerships, Business Development and Commercial Strategy Recruitment
Business Development
Strategic Partnerships
Commercial Strategy
Go-to-Market
Customer Growth
Revenue Operations
WHO WE WORK WITH
Commercial recruitment across different business environments
Finding commercial leaders who aren't actively looking
The strongest commercial candidates are often successful where they are. High-performing sales, marketing and revenue leaders may have strong teams, valuable relationships and significant incentives to stay. Many are unlikely to appear in an advertised candidate pool.
Direct headhunting lets us identify people based on the markets they know, the teams they've built and the growth they've actually delivered, then approach them directly, giving clients access to a much broader market than candidates who happen to be actively looking.
Understanding the person behind the numbers
Commercial CVs naturally contain numbers: revenue growth, targets, pipeline, market share. The context behind them matters. Someone who grew revenue with an established brand, a mature team and a significant marketing budget may face a very different challenge in a founder-led business building its commercial infrastructure from scratch. Success in one sales model or market doesn't automatically transfer to another.
We look beyond headline performance to how results were achieved and the role candidates personally played. The objective isn't finding someone with impressive numbers. It's finding someone capable of delivering commercial growth in this particular business.
Executive search
Contingent recruitment
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Why Fram Professionals
Fram Professionals specialises in recruitment for VC-backed, AIM-listed, PISCES and founder-led growth businesses. Our sister company, Fram Search, has worked across UK financial services and investment markets for more than sixteen years, giving us access to an established network across investment and venture capital, alongside our own relationships with growth businesses and senior professionals.
Our approach is deliberately headhunting-led. Rather than limiting a search to candidates actively applying for roles, we identify and directly approach people whose experience fits the particular circumstances of the business.
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Retained search completion rate
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