Business Development Manager - Events

£47,000 - £55,000 Base + Uncapped  Commission

Hybrid

London

Leading events business seeks highly ambitious, results driven Business Development Manager to join their team, working across their flagship and highly lucrative Cyber Security portfolio.

Our client hosts a number of the industry's leading Cyber Security conferences both here in the UK and internationally. Due to continued growth across the business, the need has arisen to hire a highly talented, experienced sponsorship sales manager.

This role will be an even mix of new business together with the management of key accounts.  Due to these events being the leaders in their field, the sponsorship sales manager will be responsible for growing a number of the existing key accounts.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to sell across the entire suite of events, cross-selling into a number of conferences.

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.

Requirements:

• 3 years + in event sponsorship sales - ideally within cyber security or tech
• Ideally educated to degree level
• 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.