Commercial Executive - Food & Hospitality
Posted 11 days 21 hours ago by Lipton Media
Our client is looking to hire a junior sales executive to join a fast growing team selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities across a leading food & hospitality event.
Hybrid Working
Interested in working for an innovative and high growth media events company with a friendly, relaxed, and supportive culture? Clear career paths and professional development opportunities? Lots of face to face meetings with clients? This is a fantastic opportunity for a junior sales executive to get their foot in the door into the exciting world of b2b events!
The successful candidate will ideally have some b2b sales experience or at least have the drive and hunger to create new business opportunities. You will be working with a number of existing clients but there will be a key emphasis on bringing in new business too.
What you'll do:- Source and identify new companies that could be a fit for the exhibition, selling exhibition and sponsorship solutions to clients.
- 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 decision makers.
- Ideally degree educated.
- Some phone based sales experience - 6 months.
- 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.
- Excellent commission structure!
- 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.