Business development executive

About us

We’re the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], a marketing technology media company focused on making marketing technology simple. We offer martech events, consultancy and learning. We are based in east London in a vibrant, dog-friendly, free beer providing work space, with a super passionate team.

All arms of our business are growing fast and we are looking for a hungry ambitious business development executive to help accelerate this. Working closely with the founder the new hire will be in a pivotal role responsible for driving a range of commercial opportunities across all arms of the business.

About the role

This is a hands-on role instrumental in driving the business growth. The role will centre around event delegate registrations, event sponsorship sales, consultancy services lead qualification and training course sign ups. Following the business’ sales playbook, the successful candidate will hit the ground running. The fast-paced nature of the role will suit someone determined, keen to learn and incredibly ambitious.

• Build new relationships through prospecting and strategic company targeting
• Generating appointments with key decision makers
• Building PPT proposals
• Closing sales
• Manage live chat
• Manage and qualify all leads across the business
• Social selling through Linkedin
• Creating and sharing videos to sell to individuals and companies
• Drive new partnership and business development opportunities through your social selling.
• Working to monthly targets and KPIs in line with company values

About you

• A people person - you love to meet new people, connecting/chatting comes naturally
• Commercially astute
• Target driven
• Confident
• Articulate
• Sold presentation skills with impact
• Strong presence
• Not afraid of hard work
• Highly driven and persistent
• Ambitious
• Organised and meticulous
• First role / placement year up to 18months+ experience B2B media / publishing / exhibition or event sales experience

About your experience

Your previous role may have been an events sponsorship executive, marketing services business development executive, exhibition sales executive.

You may have worked at a media / publisher / events / tech business in the marketing or tech space.

Cultural fit, positive attitude & a strong work ethic are the core areas that will determine a good match.

How to apply

• Resume / CV
• Bulleted summary of your experience and reasoning for the fit for the role.
• Links to any relevant work.

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