Fractional sales leadership

Fractional VP of Sales for home service companies

A fractional VP of Sales is a senior sales executive who works with your company part-time. For an established home service business, that means someone who sets the sales strategy, designs how the team is structured and paid, and builds the reporting the owner uses to make decisions — without the cost and risk of a full-time executive hire.

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Symptoms we see most often

Revenue has grown, but the sales team was never designed — it just accumulated
Comfort advisors or estimators are paid in ways that don't match the jobs you want
You're about to hire salespeople and have no hiring profile or ramp plan
You can't forecast next month's booked jobs with any confidence
The owner still makes every sales decision

What a fractional VP of Sales owns

The VP role is about how the sales function is built, not running the daily follow-up. In a home service company, that usually means a handful of decisions that shape everything downstream.

Sales strategy: which jobs, lead sources, and customer segments the team should prioritize
Team structure: who handles leads, estimates, and follow-up, and where handoffs happen
Compensation and targets aligned with margin, not just volume
Hiring profiles, interview steps, and ramp plans for new salespeople
Pipeline stages, forecasting, and the owner-level sales report

Fractional VP of Sales vs. a full-time hire

A full-time sales executive makes sense when there is enough leadership work to fill the role every week. Many $1M–$10M home service companies aren't there yet: the design work is front-loaded, and the ongoing work is review and adjustment. Fractional leadership gets that senior judgment in place now and lets you decide later whether the workload justifies a full-time role.

Starts in weeks instead of a months-long executive search
Scoped to the decisions that matter now
Leaves documented systems your team keeps after the engagement

VP of Sales or Head of Sales?

Choose a VP of Sales when the problem is design: strategy, structure, pay, hiring, and forecasting. Choose a Head of Sales when the design is mostly fine and the problem is that nobody runs the team day to day. Many companies need some of both, and the Pipeline Teardown shows which problem is larger.

How SumRev delivers fractional sales leadership

Every engagement starts with the $500 Pipeline Teardown, so recommendations are based on your actual opportunities and records. Ongoing paid leadership work is delivered through the Sales System Build described on the Services page. Equity Partnerships are a separate arrangement considered only for selected businesses after a Teardown.

Frequently asked

What is a fractional VP of Sales?

A fractional VP of Sales is a senior sales leader who works with your company part-time. They own sales strategy, team structure, compensation design, hiring profiles, and forecasting — the executive layer of the sales function — without being a full-time employee.

Does a home service company need a VP of Sales?

Not always a full-time one. Once a company has several people selling or estimating, decisions about structure, pay, and reporting start costing real money when they're made by default. A fractional VP of Sales makes those decisions deliberately without adding a full-time executive salary.

How much does a fractional VP of Sales cost with SumRev?

Engagements start with the $500 Pipeline Teardown. Ongoing implementation through the Sales System Build starts from From $6,500/mo as a 90-day partnership. Scope is set after the Teardown, based on what the records show.

What's the difference between a fractional VP of Sales and a sales consultant?

A consultant typically delivers recommendations. A fractional VP of Sales works inside your operating rhythm, makes or drives the sales leadership decisions, and stays involved while changes are implemented.

When should we replace a fractional VP of Sales with a full-time hire?

When the sales organization is large enough that leadership work fills a full-time role every week. Documented processes from the fractional engagement make that transition easier for the person you hire.

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Find out what your sales function needs first

The Pipeline Teardown reviews 20 recent opportunities and your pipeline records, then shows whether the bigger problem is sales design or day-to-day management.

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