Business Development Manager, The Experience Studio Germany (Temporary role)

American Express Global Business Travel; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express Global Business Travel seeks a results-driven sales professional for the Experience Studio in the DACH region, Germany. This maternity cover focuses on new business development and cross-selling with potential long-term opportunities for the right candidate.

The role requires researching prospects, building a high-value pipeline, and delivering compelling proposals to win targets. Remote-first with optional Frankfurt office access.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in sales negotiations and closing in the corporate events marketplace.
• Minimum 2 years in a Business Development role, preferably in event production.
• Experience of the live events industry.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken Business German and English; third language is a plus.
• Excellent client communication and presentation skills.
• Independent and highly motivated, target driven.
• Willingness to travel by air, rail, sea or road.

Responsibilities

• Identify, manage and drive prospects through the sales lifecycle in the Germany live corporate events market environment.
• Contribute toward profitability by focusing on high revenue opportunities.
• Promote and present the Experience Studio portfolio: Sourcing, Event Management, Group Travel & Creative Production.
• Lead cross-selling from Strategic Meeting, Business Travel, and other Amex GBT areas.
• Proactive outreach; maintain high prospecting activity to generate new leads and conversions.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and networks.
• Represent the company in industry communities and events.
• Collaborate with the creative team on sales material and high-quality pitch responses.
• Own RFI and RFP responses, pricing, negotiations, proposals and contracting.

Skills

Sales negotiations

Business development

Negotiation skills

Live events experience

German English fluency

Presentation skills

Networking

Job description

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We're here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

Job Summary

This exciting role delivers growth to The Experience Studio at Amex GBT in the DACH region with a focus on Germany. This is a temporary position for a maternity leave cover, with potential for other long term career opportunities for the right candidate.

Key focus of this role is new sales as well as cross selling from other areas business within GBT Group. The role requires effective researching and qualifying of prospects, and creating win strategies to build a high value pipeline to ensure successful achievement of targets.

To be successful in this role, we believe that the ideal candidate has a genuine curiosity in understanding our client’s businesses and how our Experience Studio can elevate their events and deliver on objectives.

What You’ll Do:

• Identify, manage and drive prospects through the sales lifecycle in the Germany live corporate events market environment
• Contribute towards the profitability of the company by focusing on high revenue generating opportunities
• Confidently promote and present our whole Experience Studio portfolio of services – Sourcing, Event Management, Group Travel & Creative Production
• Lead cross selling opportunities from Strategic Meeting clients, Business Travel clients and other areas within Amex GBT
• Proactive outreach; Prospect calls and meetings - this role is expected to keep a consistently high prospecting activity to generate new business leads and client conversions
• Successfully build relationships and engage at key stakeholder level
• Network and represent the company in industry communities and events
• Work with creative team to deliver sales material and produce high quality pitch responses to win new business
• Own RFI and RFP responses and processes acting as bid captain, leading the work on pricing, negotiations, proposal building, pitch presentations and contracting.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven track record in sales negotiations, new business results and closing skills in the corporate events marketplace
• Minimum 2 years experience with a successful track record from a Business Development Role, preferably within event production
• Experience of the live events industry
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Comfortable liaising with stakeholder spectrum; C-level, Marketing, Heads of Department, procurement, internal operations & event managers
• Fluent in written and spoken Business German and English, any level fluency in a third language would be advantageous
• Excellent client communication and presentation skills
• Excellent networker and relationship builder
• Independent and highly motivated, target driven
• Ability to travel by airplane, boat, rail and/or car.

This role is remote, but we do offer access to the office in Frankfurt as option.

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Location

Frankfurt, Germany

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