Association Sales Manager

The Scottish Event Campus (SEC), proud host venue of COP26, is looking for an experienced Sales Manager to join the high-performing Association sales team.

The SEC comprising, SEC Centre, SEC Armadillo and The OVO Hydro, is Scotland's premier venue for conferences, events, concerts, and exhibitions, and enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious conference venues,

Our vision is to be the Best event campus in Europe and every member of our team strives to ensure our customers have the best possible experience, embracing our mission: Best Venues, Best People, Best Events.

We are looking for an experienced business development professional with skills in lead generation and account management. They should be ambitious, and target driven with the capacity to win business and manage their own sales pipeline.

The Association Sales Manager will take responsibility for driving new business, as well as managing existing client accounts to generate new business opportunities. They should be an excellent communicator and keen networker as well as confident, passionate, agile, and self-motivated to achieve and exceed targets.

The Conference Sales team takes pride in their reputation as an honest, innovative, and passionate team. The Association Sales Manager should characterise these principles and contribute to the strong culture of collaboration in the team.

If you have the following skills, we’d love to hear from you:

• Strong sales and commercial acumen
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Unrivalled closing skills
• Excellent ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• Team Player
• Demonstratable experience in working through the tendering/bid process to win new business
• Ability to work across multiple projects at the same time
• Works well both independently and as part of a team
• Willingness to carry out domestic and international travel when required
• An understanding of the association meetings industry is advantageous but not essential.

Our ideal candidate will be committed to our mission; Best Venues, Best People, Best Events. In adopting our core value for teamwork and collaboration they should share our passion for providing excellent customer experience, acting as a role model and setting an ambassador for the Live Entertainment team and wider business.

Does this sound like it might be up your street?