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SalaryBusiness Development Executive - Events
£25,000 - £28,000 + Uncapped Commission + Excellent Benefits
Hybrid Working
- Interested in working for an innovative and high growth media events company?
- With a friendly, relaxed, and supportive culture?
- Excited by a career in sales?
- Clear career paths and professional development opportunities?
- Lots of face to face meetings with clients
- Are you an academic graduate with ambitious career objectives?
Fantastic opportunity for a super smart graduate to get their foot in the door into the exciting world of b2b events!
You will have the opportunity to bespoke solutions to delegates as well as to sell sponsorship opportunities to clients within a number of leading b2b markets.
The successful candidate will be degree educated with a minimum of a 2:1 and will ideally have some phone based experience.
You will be working with a number of existing clients but there will be a key emphasis to bring in new business too.
What you’ll do:
- Source and identify new companies that could be a fit for the event, selling delegate and sponsorship solutions.
- Engage new companies by telephone and face to face to assess whether they are a good fit.
- Network with existing and prospective clients at events
- Pitch to senior level decison makers
What we’re looking for:
- 2:1 degree
- Ideally some phone based experience
- Hard working and committed with an excellent phone work ethic
- Pro-active, persuasive & confident
- Sales driven
- An ability to understand client’s needs and adopt a tailored approach
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What our client can offer you:
- Excellent commission structure!
- Market leader, winner of a prestigious AEO Award
- First-rate training, support and guidance with daily exposure to management
- Flat structure with excellent career progression - promotion is invariably internal
- Fun environment, family owned business
- Prospect of international travel
Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities. We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs.
Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.
