Business Development Manager - Sponsorship
£40,000 - £50,000 Base Salary + (Uncapped Commission) + Excellent Benefits
Hybrid
Award winning media events business seeks a highly talented Business Development Manager to join their high growth media business selling high value, bespoke sponsorship and exhibition packages to a global client base.
This role will focus on selling bespoke sponsorship and exhibition opportunities to clients globally, within the life science and tech space, a high growth area for the business.
We are keen to hear from candidates with 1-3 years b2b sales experience ideally from a sponsorship sales background. We would also consider candidates from a recruitment background, software sales, event sales or media sales.
Role: Business Development Manager - Sponsorship
- Generating new business, increasing pipeline and bringing on new prospects
- Manage a number of existing accounts
- Sell high-value sponsorship packages and exhibition opportunities
- Pitch clients over the phone and through face to face meetings
- Attend competitor events
- 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:
- 1-3 years + in b2b sales - ideally events, recruitment, media, sponsorship, exhibition or software sales
- Strong desire to sell
- 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.