Commercial Sales Executive - Food & Drink

Commercial Sales Executive - Events

£25,000 - £30,000 + Uncapped Commission + Excellent Benefits

Hybrid Working

• Interested in working for an innovative and high growth media events company?
• With a friendly, relaxed, and supportive culture?
• Clear career paths and professional development opportunities?
• Lots of face to face meetings with clients

Fantastic opportunity for a junior sales executive to get their foot in the door into the exciting world of b2b events!

Our client is looking to hire a junior sales executive to join a fast growing team selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities across a leading food & hospitality event.

The successful candidate will ideally have some b2b sales experience under their belt or at least have the drive and hunger to create new business opportunities.

You will be working with a number of existing clients but there will be a key emphasis to bring in new business too.

What you'll do:

• Source and identify new companies that could be a fit for the exhibition, selling exhibition and sponsorship solutions to clients.
• Engage new companies by telephone and face to face to assess whether they are a good fit.
• Network with existing and prospective clients at events
• Pitch to senior level decision makers

What we're looking for:

• Ideally degree educated
• Ideally some phone based sales experience - 6 months
• Hard working and committed with an excellent phone work ethic
• Pro-active, persuasive & confident
• Sales driven
• An ability to understand client's needs and adopt a tailored approach
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What our client can offer you:

• Excellent commission structure!
• First-rate training, support and guidance with daily exposure to management
• Flat structure with excellent career progression - promotion is invariably internal
• Fun environment, family owned business
• Prospect of international travel

Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities. We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs.

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.