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Senior Commercial Sales Executive

Lipton Media
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 16 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£48,000 - £57,600 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for a Senior Commercial Sales Executive with a salary range of £30,000 - £35,000 plus commission and benefits.
  • The role involves selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities for a flagship hospitality event within the food, drink, and hotel sectors.
  • Candidates should have approximately 2 years of B2B sales experience, ideally in event sales or a related media background.
  • Strong communication skills and experience in face-to-face client meetings are highly desirable, with hospitality sales experience being particularly relevant.
  • The role also offers the opportunity to develop industry knowledge through networking and collaboration with various teams.

Senior Commercial Sales Executive

£30,000 - £35,000 + Commission + Benefits

Hybrid

C London

Leading events business seeks a highly ambitious Commercial Sales Executive to join their events sales team selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities across a flagship hospitality event. These events sit within the food, drink and hotel space.

You will be fully integrated into the close-knit team delivering on personal sales targets for exhibition space and sponsorship to both previous and new customers/partners over the telephone and face to face and via social media.

Supporting the Event Manager with accurate floorplan management and ensuring that the CRM is always up to date and prospect database is constantly updated and fit for purpose. Your close relationship with the show team: Operations, Marketing and project co-ordinators will develop the event for the industry.

By attending industry networking events and competitor events you will immerse yourself in your market to understand the trends and be able to identify commercial opportunities, gain industry feedback as well as increasing your sector knowledge.

Profile Required:

  • B2b sales experience circa 2 years +, ideally from an event sales background or related to media.
  • Hospitality sales experience is highly relevant for this role
  • Any second language a major plus
  • Interest in aesthetics/design a plus
  • Experience closing deals and working to targets
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience of face to face client meetings highly desirable

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.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.