Events Sales Manager

£35,000 - £45,000 Base Salary + Uncapped Commission

Hybrid

London

Are you a foodie? Do you enjoy live music? Experienced in selling exhibition space and sponsorship packages?

If so, this is genuinely a brilliant opportunity!

Our client runs the leading food and music festival in the UK and the need has arisen to hire a brilliant events sales person to join the team.

Think industry leading chefs, great food stalls, top DJ’s and music artists….

The Role

Reporting to the head of commercial partnerships, you will be responsible for selling exhibition space for the events to both previous and new business. In addition you will create bespoke sponsorship opportunities for brands to invest. You will also have latitude to come up with new revenue generating ideas and opportunities that will grow both the sales revenue and in conjunction with the marketing team, ticket revenue.

Quite simply this is a unique and rare opportunity to work on some of the best events in the world! You will be pushed hard and expected to grasp responsibility as soon as it comes your way and you will learn faster than you ever thought possible. You will work with some fabulous people, including your colleagues and a good smattering of celebrities.

If you have a great event idea you might have the opportunity to develop and launch it with them. Essentially there are no barriers. If you’re good and you want it, you can have it; sales executive to event director in 3 to 4 years isn’t unheard of.

Key Profile Requirements:

• A strong background selling exhibition and/or sponsorship packages
• Initiative - proactive and able to work independently
• Self-sufficient, self-motivated, resilient, determined, assertive, good objection handler, capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines
• Strong planning, organisation and time management skills
• Assertive team player capable of dealing and working with strong personalities
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent communicator, authoritative and credible diplomat/ambassador
• Resilient and determined; problem solver and decision-maker
• New business generation
• Strong at managing key accounts
• An all-rounder, able to transfer seamlessly from major account handling one minute to cold calling smaller clients the next

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.