Sponsorship Sales Executive

Position: Sponsorship Sales Executive
Location: Oxford (OX1) - with hybrid working
Salary: £35k - £40k per annum (£100k OTE)
Hours: Monday – Friday (09:00 – 17:30)
Experience: Sales, Sponsorship Sales, Event Sales, Event Sponsors, Account Management, Negotiation, Events, Event Cycles, Tech, Technology, Conferences, Marketing, Planning, Communication, CRM

The Opportunity

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working alongside a world-leading technology events business who are setting up brand new central Oxford offices, and looking to recruit a team of driven and self-motivated Sponsorship Sales Executives to sell bespoke high profile media sponsorships.

On a day-to-day basis, this role will require involvement with the entire sales cycle from initially researching and sourcing commercial sponsors to reaching out and closing new sales, securing sales from existing partners, managing the internal CRM system and developing relationships long-term to encourage and ensure repeat sponsorship and engagement for years to come.

The successful Sponsorship Sales Executive should be driven to hit targets and innovate in their approach with existing experience selling in the events/conference space, but also with a real passion to innovatively and creatively work with every clients to ensure their objectives from the sponsorship are met.

Being a technical organisation, Thompson & Terry Recruitment’s client are also preferably looking for candidates with an understanding of selling within the tech sector however the most important attribute will be the hunger to push boundaries and ability to track and exceed revenue targets.

The biggest thing to stress is whilst our client are absolute global leaders within their space they are ethically motivated to really ensure you have unrivalled progression opportunities.

The Company

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are excited to be exclusively working with a world-leading technology events business, who work mainly within STEM, education, healthcare and government who are setting up their brand new UK offices in Central Oxford.

As a global brand our client boasts a track record of delivering the biggest and most high-profile events in their space, with ambitious plans to continue pushing the status quo, so this is an amazing time to join.

Alongside offering a real work-hard, play-hard environment to succeed and grow long-term, our client also provides staff with an amazing and achievable commission package, strong benefits pack and a track record for really support their people to progress.

Requirements

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Experience of working within event/conference sales with the drive and self-motivation to meet and exceed revenue targets

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The confidence and ability to approach new businesses, create new opportunities and communicate with global organisations via the telephone, email and video call

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Highly organised and great attention to detail when using internal systems

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Adaptable to new sales methods and techniques

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Experience of working within ‘tech’ or indeed a genuine interest

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in the sourcing of Sales, Marketing and office administration candidates in Oxfordshire. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, gender, age or sex.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time