Business Development Manager

£50,000 - £60,000 Base + Commission

Hybrid

London

Global events business seeks highly ambitious, results driven Business Development Manager to join their team, working across their flagship life science events portfolio.

This large-scale conference and exhibition has been running for 20+ years and attracts 2,000+ attendees from pharma, biotech, research and their solution providers each year.

Role:
This Business Development opportunity is a great opportunity for an ambitious & enthusiastic individual who enjoys building business relationships with senior professionals in international corporate organisations.

The Business Development Manager will drive revenues through the sale of sponsorship packages for a high-profile international event.

• You will be selling in a consultative & professional manner to key decision makers / C-level contacts in corporate organisations.
• Creating intelligent, needs-based proposals for prospects. 
• You will be working with an established global brand and benefit from a strong database of existing contacts, warm leads, and the opportunity to develop your own new business.
• A large part of the position will be to identify and capitalise on new opportunities to generate revenue at the events - identifying new occasions for sponsorship investment to take place.
• Develop strong sector/discipline knowledge and relationships. 
• Post continually on social media, especially LinkedIn to establish yourself as an expert in the industry.

Requirements:

• Educated to degree level

• 3 years + ideally from an event sponsorship sales background
• Any background in Life Science is highly advantageous
• Loves knowledge and is good at research. 
• Networking and relationship skills. 
• Commercial outlook. 
• Great communication and writing skills. 
• You must be hard-working, committed, and a team player.
• Have an interest in business and enjoy learning new information
• Strong at initiating new business with new clients & comfortable working with new products & services.

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.