SALES & MARKETING MANAGER - EVENTS AGENCY

Posted 12 January 2021
Salary£28000 - £33000 per annum + + OTE + Benefits
Location
Job type Permanent
Reference17637/001_1610444638
Contact NameLive Recruitment

Job description

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THE COMPANY
With an award winning reputation, a passionate and vibrant team and an office full (virtually) of creative and friendly people, this full service agency tend to need no introduction.

Always coming up with original, innovative and engaging solutions for their blue chip clients, it's no wonder this agency have an unrivalled reputation in the events world and has grown strongly over the past 12 months.

They continued to invest in their team, their technology and their services, which has led to a huge increase in new opportunities for them.

Now at an exciting point in their development and with services including production, presentation design, account management and creative they work across a wide variety of events (both live and virtual) including conferences and communication pieces. Covering a diverse range of sectors including financial services, IT, tech and pharma to name a few there has never been a better time to join this award winning agency!

THE ROLE
Due to continued growth and development of the business they are now looking for an ambitious and motivated Sales and Marketing Manager to come on board and help develop relationships with prospective clients. A broad role responsibilities include:

* Working closely with the internal team to deliver the new sales strategy
* Planning, implementing and following up sales campaigns
* Maintaining engagement with warm prospects, and promoting the companies services
* Identifying new leads for the agency
* Booking meetings / calls / demos with prospects
* Working closely with the account management team to develop proposals, RFP and RFI responses
* Driving awareness campaigns of new services
* Generating and developing new relationships
* CRM database management
* Attending industry events

THE CANDIDATE
Candidates must have excellent client facing and account management skills ideally coupled with experience of working within the event sector. An understanding of how to build brand awareness within the event technology sector would be advantageous as would a background in lead generation and qualifying prospects. Experience of maintaining and updating CRM's is essential and any exposure to content creation for email campaigns would be useful.

Presentation skill would be an added benefit but more importantly candidates must have the drive and ambition to join this leading creative agency and help develop the business at this critical time!

Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit www.live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.