Business Development Manager – Media

Business Development Manager – Media

£35,000 – £45,000 Base + Uncapped Commission

Award winning, independent media business based in West london seeks talented business development manager to sell bespoke digital and sponsorship led solutions across their education and health portfolio.

Our client is a small, friendly and rapidly growing B2B subscription publisher and professional training company. Their magazines and other information publications, together with its range of conferences, seminars and digital professional training, are widely used by schools, care homes, charities, Early Years settings and dentists, among others.

Business Development Manager

Are you passionate about developing B2B business?Are you looking for a new and exciting role to develop and improve your selling skills?Our client is looking for an ambitious, high achieving business development manager to drive forward their advertising sales, account manage advertisers and shape their advertising marketing strategy.

Primary Aims – Business Development Manager

·Sell advertising space and sponsorship across their B2B magazines and new prospectous magazine and plethora of events.

·Account manage high spending accounts

• Develop and drive an advertising strategy for maximum sales opportunities
• Research and develop new methods of generating advertising revenue

·Manage all advertisers to ensure a good experience leading to re-booking and upselling opportunities

Required Skills – Business Development Manager

·At least two year’s sales experience – ideally sponsorship and advertising sales

• Excellent English speaking, listening and writing skills
• Ability to multiple task, work under pressure and prepared to focus all efforts to meet deadlines and see projects through.
• Ability to organise work in an efficient manner and to develop appropriate systems and procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and motivate advertisers, suppliers and colleagues on all levels.

Required Attributes

·Entrepreneurial and commercially minded with an interest in growing revenues

·Ambitious and eager to develop a career in advertising sales and sponsorship

·Disciplined and conscientious with a strong work ethic

• Positive, outgoing and confident with a good sense of humour
• You must have an existing right to live and work in the United Kingdom.

Lipton Media is a specialist media and tech recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b sales, marketing and creative positions, including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence and technology.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 listed businesses. We work with candidates 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.