Interim & Fractional Head of Sales · for founder-led B2B SaaS · EMEA & international

You get a sales engine your team owns.

Your own selling got you results, but not a system that compounds. A full-time VP won't get their hands dirty; founding AEs don't build the engine. I embed as your Head of Sales, fix the pipeline, install qualification and forecasting, coach the team, then hand you an engine your team owns and step out.

Currently taking one interim client from September 2026.

Built and scaled revenue at TryHackMe FreshBooks Copla Now Interact StepStone Dell

Sound familiar?

Maybe you're still the best salesperson in the building. Maybe a couple of AEs are in seat with no one building the system, or a team lead is running day to day and needs senior backup. Maybe a sales leader just left and the gap is wide open. The symptoms rhyme.

Your CRM and pipeline live in Google Sheets or Excel.

Your first sales hires aren't producing, and you can't tell whether it's the people or the system.

Pipeline exists, but nothing is forecastable. Deals slip and no one can say why.

The burden of running sales yourself is taking a toll on product and marketing.

Your team are jacks of all trades, masters of none.

New reps take months to ramp, because the playbook only lives in your head.

Two ways to work together

The Method

01 · Days 1–30
Diagnose & stabilise

Hands on your live deals from day one. Pipeline hygiene fixed, qualification installed, deal stages rebuilt around real exit criteria. You finally see what's actually in the pipeline, and what's fiction.

02 · Days 31–60
Build the engine

Forecasting you can take to a board. A repeatable qualification and handoff. Coaching for the reps you have, and a partner channel where it fits your market.

03 · Days 61–90
Hand over

A documented playbook, a forecastable pipeline, and a team that runs the engine without me in the room. Renew on a lighter footing, or exit clean.

Every lever, deliberately set
InboundOutboundAllboundEnterprise vs SMBPackaged vs customICP definitionTooling & CRMHiringTeam structureHuman vs AI SDRsCold email vs human touchSales ritualsPipeline reviewsClosed-lost reviews

The results

I've taken revenue from early or zero to scale five times, across regulated SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity and recruitment tech.

2.1 → 8.4M
TryHackMe · new ARR
0 → 5M
FreshBooks · EMEA from zero
5×
Sales functions built from early/zero

People who've worked with me

“I worked with Gijs in the early days of Now Interact, when we were selling AI in 2014. Back then every AI deal was a Challenger sale. Gijs reads a situation, a tool or a process faster than anyone I have worked with, and he closed our first reference customers himself before he built the team that took it from there. If you need a Sales Leader productive in weeks instead of quarters, that is him.”
Mike Boogaard Mike Boogaard Managing Director EMEA, Winning By Design Worked alongside Gijs at Now Interact, building the first customer base.
“I joined Now Interact with zero SaaS experience and Gijs took a chance on me. What followed was the best on-the-job training I’ve ever had: the customer lifecycle, what good deliverables actually look like at each stage, and above all a sense of commercial ownership that has stayed with me since. Any SaaS business that brings Gijs in, even on an interim basis, is getting someone who builds systems and people at the same time.”
Pascal van Baren Pascal van Baren Head of Onboarding & Customer Success, Effectory Recruited as CSM at Now Interact; now Head of Onboarding & Customer Success at Effectory.
“Gijs built the foundations of TryHackMe’s B2B sales function during the stage where we scaled fastest. He brought in the qualification, opportunity management and forecasting discipline the team needed to grow without breaking, and shaped how we sold rather than just what we tracked. I was an AE when he arrived. The process he put in is the reason people like me could step up.”
Matthew Pedley Matthew Pedley Mid-Market Sales Manager, Sophos Account Executive at TryHackMe under Gijs, promoted to Senior AE and then Sales Team Lead.
Gijs Bos
The operator

Gijs Bos

I'm not a consultant who ships slides. I run the function: I carry deals, sit in the forecast, manage the reps. You get an operator, not a deck. I've taken revenue from early or zero to scale five times across regulated SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity and recruitment tech, then handed each one over. Underneath it all sits an unusually long view on AI: studied in the mid-90s, eight years selling it before the current wave, building with it today.

Let's talk

If your sales engine is the thing standing between this round and the next, let's talk.

Thirty minutes, no deck.

Book a call gijs.bos@compoundgtm.io