Exhibitions Sales Executive, Tunbridge Wells - £30K + Commission + Benefits

The Company

Well-established and entrepreneurial exhibitions company operating in 5 x interesting and buoyant B2B markets. This is a family-owned business with a multinational and multilingual office environment. The company encourages personal growth and development with lots of opportunities to take responsibility and ownership.

The Role of Exhibitions Sales Executive

You’ll be working with the event manager and event director to ensure the success of two key events as well as helping develop new exhibitions.

  • Responsible for selling exhibition stand space and sponsorship via phone, virtual meetings and business meetings

  • Managing a sales pipeline to maximise new business opportunities

  • Developing existing accounts and seeking out opportunities to upsell and cross sell

  • Building excellent relationships with exhibitors, sponors and partners

  • Collaborating with the events and marketing teams to ensure the success of your events

  • Monitoring and reporting on sales activities

  • Keeping up to date with industy developments and identify new areas of growth for the sales team

  • Helping deliver successful events

  • Being an excellent ambassador at your events

The Ideal Candidate for the Exhibitions Sales Executive Role

  • Proven sales ability

  • Effective communications skills

  • Resourceful - able to find and develop leads

  • Determined - keen to achieve targets and take stakeholders with you

  • Self motivated

  • Able to multitask

  • Confident, outgoing, persuasive and articulate

  • Happy to travel internationally

  • Takes on responsibility and ownership

  • Keen to progress

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing events business in a sales role!

For more information please email derek@escapehatchmedia.co.uk.