Senior Account Manager / BDM - Leading portfolio of tech events!
Posted 7 hours 2 minutes ago by Media IQ Recruitment Ltd
Job Sector
Contract Type
Permanent
Location
3 Days a week in Putney, 2 days a week at home
£40k - £45k basic (neg) plus commission and benefits
Job Reference
Media IQ-Events15Tech
Do you have multiplatform advertising or event portfolio sales experience?
Like the idea of working for a global event business, selling event and digital sponsorship solutions to international tech firms like Google, AWS, IBM and similar?
Excited at the prospect of selling a wide variety of commercial solutions spanning physical and virtual event sponsorship, digital advertising and content, bespoke events, roundtables, 1-2-1 meetings and much more?
If yes, please read on
The Company
A leading global events business operating across a multitude of sectors. They pride themselves on training and fast track career progression for talented sales professionals.
This role sits within one of their fast growing tech divisions. Since 2014, and throughout the pandemic, this portfolio of events has continued to grow revenues by 14% per year!
The Role of Senior Account Manager
As a Senior Account Manager, you will be selling a wide variety of solutions across their portfolio of tech events, including exhibition opportunities, bespoke events, speaking opportunities, 1-2-1 meetings packages, roundtable sponsorship, feature spaces, virtual event solutions, hospitality sponsorship, digital advertising and content and much more.
You will be selling opportunities across 4 large exhibitions and conferences as well as a number of smaller physical events, virtual events, 1-2-1 meetings and more. This is very much a client-centric, bespoke sell where you will put together partnerships which span a number of events and different commercial opportunities.
You will be part of a team of 6 working on this specific event portfolio.
The role is 60% account management and 40% new business/targeting lapsed clients. You will be looking after clients across the cloud computing, network data, AI and dev Ops sectors. They include the likes of Google, AWS, Dell, IBm and similar.
Requirements for thisSenior Account Manager position
- Multiplatform media sales or event sales experience (3+ years)
- Polished, confident and driven
- Sharp, eager to learn and self-motivated
- Good education
- Strong presenter
- Naturally good at socialising with new people - you will be going to social events to network
- Interest in tech would be desirable
- Stable career history
If you think that you could be the Senior Account Manager our client is looking for, please apply and a consultant will be in touch should you make the shortlist.