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Senior Sponsorship Sales Manager
£40,000 - £60,000 + £40k Bonus Approx (Uncapped Commission) + Excellent Benefits
Leading independent events business is looking to hire a super talented and highly driven Senior Business Development Manager/ Key Account Manager to join their highly successful sponsorship sales team working across their leading tech and innovation division.
The Senior BDM will act as the first point of call for the clients they manage. You will be selling high value, bespoke sponsorship packages across conferences and exhibitions.
This role demands a highly articulate, sales-driven individual who enjoys building relationships and has real hunger to close high value yielding sales. This person will manage a number of high value accounts, therefore a strong track record in consultative sales across events or a similar b2b sales role is a must. It is imperative you can display strong account management experience within a sponsorship sales role.
Senior Sponsorship Sales Manager
The Role
- Grow relationships with key accounts by planning and tailoring their marketing activities using a consultative approach with the intention of growing YOY spend
- Generating new business, increasing pipeline and bringing on new prospects
- Sell high-value sponsorship and digital packages as well as membership opportunities
- Pitch clients over the phone and through face to face meetings
- Attend competitor events - Travel to the US
- Act as a market specialist and make sure you have the knowledge to do so via internal and external resources
Senior Sponsorship Sales Manager
Profile of Candidate
- 4 years + in b2b sponsorship sales - This can be from a conferences / exhibition background
- Strong account management capabilities
- Degree educated ideally
- 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.
