Business Development Manager – Events

  Business Development  Manager – Events

£40,000 – £50,000 Base Salary + (Uncapped Commission) + Excellent Benefits

Hybrid

Leading events business in the ecommerce space seeks a super polished sponsorship sales candidate with circa 3 years + experience to join their fast growing event sales team.

This role will focus on selling high end sponsorship opportunities to clients within the highly lucrative technology space.

We are keen to hear from candidates with a minimum of 2 years in either event sponsorship sales, recruitment, advertising sales etc.  

Role: Business Development Manager – Sponsorship Sales

Generating new business, increasing pipeline and bringing on new prospects
Managing some key spending accounts
Sell high-value sponsorship opportunities
Pitch clients over the phone and through face to face meetings
Attend events – lots of face to face meetings
Consultative selling is a key part of this role, the right candidate should be able to sell creatively, through solution led selling 
Profile of Candidate:

2 years + in b2b event sales (sponsorship) or recruitment, IT sales, Ad sales 
Consistently high achiever in delivering revenue
Highly consultative sales ability
Strong desire to sell
Degree educated 
Excellent communication skills
Successful track record achieving revenue targets
Someone with a consultative sales approach is a necessity here 
Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

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.