Sales Support - Events

                                                     Sales Support – Events

£35,000 - £38,000

Hybrid

London

Global events business seeks a highly talented Sales Operations Executive to join their team.

Our client has customers in over 14 countries globally and over 2000 employees worldwide.

The Sales Operations Executive is a critical role within the business, supporting the high performing events sales team with administrative and invoicing support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

SALES PROCESSING

• Process sales and raise invoices using Salesforce and NetSuite, ensuring data is accurate at all times
• Keep track of customer payment & debt status and work with Credit Partners to flag issues to sales teams, suspending access to products if required Issue credit notes when required and work with accounts payable to ensure refunds are processed
• Setup & renew access to paywalled sites for users

BRAND PARTNERING

• Be a data guardian for your brand, proactively validating accurate sales, account and billing information
• Run regular reports for sales and finance teams, analysing the findings to spot issues and inconsistencies with data
• Hold regular meetings with heads of sales to review and maintain accuracy of Salesforce
• Partner with brand leaders to provide analytics and identify areas on concern

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Ideally similar experience of working in a media business – supporting the sales team with administration, invoicing and data.
• Strong planning, organizational and multitasking skills
• Good communicator, able to liaise with business stakeholders
• Ability to analyse and document complex business processes, should be a problem solver
• Must be self-managed, responsive, and able to work in a virtual team environment
• Hands on mentality, proactivity, follow through and great attention to detail
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, esp. Excel is required, Salesforce is a plus
• Motivated, energetic and highly numerate
• Problem solving skills and willingness to take the initiative
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with a diverse set of internal constituencies including senior level executives, technical, finance, legal, sales and marketing

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.