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.