Business Development Manager – Life Science
Job Overview
- Salary £28,000 - £35,000 + Uncapped Commission + Benefits
- Award-winning, independent B2B media/events company is looking to hire a super talented and highly driven Business Development Manager to join their rapidly growing Life Science events sales team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a genuine global market leader in b2b events. You will have the opportunity to sell across two flagship events within an 11 year, exceptional track record in terms of their success, this really is a rare opportunity.
Business Development Manager – Life Sciences
£27,000 – £35,000 + Uncapped Commission
Award-winning, independent B2B media/events company is looking to hire a super talented and highly driven Business Development Manager to join their rapidly growing Life Science events sales team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a genuine global market leader in b2b events.
You will have the opportunity to sell across two flagship events within an 11 year, exceptional track record in terms of their success, this really is a rare opportunity.
The successful Business Development Manager will be selling a mix of bespoke sponsorship packages, digital advertising and rich content offerings to senior level executives globally within the Life Sciences space. There will be scope for international travel once restrictions are lifted further into next year.
This role demands a highly articulate, sales-driven individual who enjoys building relationships and has real hunger to close high value yielding sales.
Business Development Manager
The Role
- Generating new business, increasing pipeline and bringing on new prospects
- Sell high-value sponsorship and digital packages
- Grow relationships with key accounts by planning and tailoring their marketing activities using a consultative approach with the intention of growing YOY spend
- Pitch clients over the phone and through face to face meetings
- Attend competitor events
- Act as a market specialist and make sure you have the knowledge to do so via internal and external resources
- Consultative selling is a key part of this role, the right candidate should be able to sell creatively, through solution led selling
Business Development Manager
Profile of Candidate
- 1- 3 years in b2b sales, ideally from a Ad sales, IT sales, recruitment or event sales background, crucially it must be within b2b.
- 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.