Sales Management Support. Outsourced sales director on a part-time, embedded basis
Strategic Sales Support acts as your outsourced sales director, embedded in your business on a recurring, part-time cadence. We install strategy, run the weekly leadership rhythm, coach deals, govern the pipeline and lift your team's commercial output. Senior sales leadership without the full-time cost.
Who benefits.
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Founders carrying sales themselves.
You're selling alongside running the business. Pipeline slips between rounds. The hat doesn't come off.
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Businesses with reps but no leader.
Sales staff are working but no one is setting strategy, running cadence or holding the team commercially accountable.
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Post-revenue-plateau businesses.
Growth has flatlined. The team is busy but win rate, deal size and forecast accuracy aren't improving.
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Pre-hire stages.
You know you need a Sales Director eventually but the cost or the risk isn't right yet. You want the leadership now and the hire later.
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Businesses post-acquisition.
Two teams, two operating styles, two pipelines. You need someone independent to install one commercial system.
The patterns we see.
No leadership cadence.
No weekly rhythm. Deals drift. Forecasts get built in the last hour before the board meeting.
Optimistic forecasting.
Every deal is at 80% in someone's head. Nothing lands when the forecast says it will.
Hiring without strategy.
Reps brought on without a defined territory, ICP, target list or commercial framework around them.
Founder burnout.
The founder is the bottleneck, every deal, every pursuit, every escalation. Capacity is gone.
Inconsistent messaging.
Every conversation pitches the business differently. No coherent positioning across the team.
What changes.
Commercial outcomes, not activity outputs.
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Predictable commercial output.
Pipeline reviewed weekly, forecasts you can take to the board, deals progressed with discipline.
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Founder time back.
Day-to-day commercial leadership lifted off the founder. You stay strategic; we run the cadence.
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Lifted team performance.
Coaching, accountability and structure visibly raise the team's commercial output inside a quarter.
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A handback in 12–18 months.
When the time is right, the business is ready for its own full-time Sales Director. We've built the operating system they inherit.
How an engagement runs.
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Diagnose.
Two-week assessment: pipeline, team, deals, cadence, deal quality. Honest read-out of what's working and what isn't.
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90-day plan.
A commercial plan tied to revenue and margin. What we'll change, in what order, with what milestones.
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Install cadence.
Weekly leadership rhythm, pipeline review, deal coaching, forecast call, stand-up, set up and running by week 4.
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Coach and govern.
Live deal reviews, accountability for stage hygiene, hiring input, performance management coaching for managers.
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Review and reset.
Quarterly recalibration of strategy, ICP, target list and team. The system flexes as the business grows.
Sales Management Support, answered.
What does an outsourced sales director do?
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Who fits Sales Management Support?
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When is Sales Management Support not the right fit?
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Book a 30-minute call. We'll figure out if Sales Management Support is the right fit, and if not, where to start instead.