Sales Executive - Education Conference & Exhibition

Job Purpose

Key Accountabilities

• Actively seek new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking, and social media.
• Set up meetings with potential clients to understand their business needs. Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations and proposals on products and services.
• Manage existing accounts to maintain the business relations with them and grow the commercial cooperation.
• Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections.
• Achieving and exceeding agreed show and personal revenue and profit targets
• Collaborate with team members to achieve better results. Work closely with editorial, marketing and ability to operate as one team.
• Attend events and liaising with exhibitor and sponsor clients onsite to ensure that their contract is fulfilled, and all their concerns and needs are addressed.
• Keep up to date via a wide range of material including various industry publications relevant to the topic areas and audiences of assigned conferences for developments and trends in the industry.
• Understand the market trends, changes and overall situation to be able to offer value proposition to the clients.

Job Context

Qualifications, Experience, & Skills

• What we look for in the ideal candidate – You will:
• Have excellent telephones sales manner with consistently high call rates.
• Have minimum 2 years’ experience in B2B exhibition sales and sponsorship
• Be a serial networker and social media savvy.
• Have technical experience with contract management, budget management, and proposal writing.
• Have experience in the use of databases (preferably Salesforce) in both mass and targeted sales campaigns.
• Be able to cross and up sell opportunities and products.
• Focus on the customer needs AND seek win/win agreements.
• This role is an excellent career springboard
• Excellent verbal and written English – other languages will be an advantage.

Personal Attributes

• Customer Focused – put the customer at the heart of everything we do
• Harding working - Strong work ethic representing our industry leading brands
• Studious - Desire to learn and embrace best practice within your discipline
• Respectful – demonstrate consistency and reliability in all areas
• Collaborative – display open communication and innovation
• Proactive – take initiative on opportunities and test your ideas
• Efficient – display excellent time management and prioritisation
• Effective – focusing on the right things at the right time to deliver the best results

Career Progression

• Longer term career progression can lead to becoming a sales manager.
• You will receive on the job coaching, resources to learn and develop your sales skills.
• The onus on learning is on the individual; employees at dmg events own their own performance and development.
• dmg events is an equal opportunity employer.
• If you have not had feedback from us within 14 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful for this round.