Senior Commercial Manager - Food/Drink Expos

Overview

Leading media events business seeks a highly talented senior Commercial Manager to join its sales team. The role involves selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at a flagship food and drink expo while managing a small junior sales team.

Responsibilities

• Sell exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the flagship expo.
• Develop a small team of commercial executives.
• Engage with key accounts and pursue new business through regular face to face meetings at industry events.
• Lead and support part of the sales team by providing guidance, training and professional development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of exhibition sales experience.
• At least 2 years of line management experience.
• Proven track record of developing team members and driving sales results.
• Consistently meeting and exceeding targets in exhibitions and sponsorship sales.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise to maximise productivity.
• High emotional intelligence with strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Personable, enthusiastic and a proactive, solutions oriented team player.

Salary & Benefits

£30,000 - £35,000 + excellent benefits.

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London, specialising in B2B media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.