Business Development Manager - Media & Sponsorship

CDM Media Inc.; Newport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commission bonuses

Holiday allowances

Birthday day off

Travel opportunities

Training & development

Promotion opportunities

Job summary

CDM Media Inc. is seeking a dynamic sales professional to drive sponsorship revenue across our media offerings. You will build relationships with technology brands, present high-impact opportunities, and manage end-to-end sponsorship deals in the EMEA region.

The role offers an attractive commission structure, long-term career progression, and opportunities to travel to Europe and the USA. You will join a high-energy team focused on quality conversations with senior executives.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of sales experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A strong prospecting mindset.
• A can-do and will-do attitude.
• Enthusiastic, energetic and passionate about personal success.
• A true determination to succeed in a business development role.
• Self-motivated with real passion for sales.
• Fast learner with an outgoing personality.
• Strong presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Selling Sponsorship opportunities across a wide range of Media offerings.
• Opportunity to become a product specialist and own direction and development of events in the portfolio.
• Create and manage a pipeline of prospects to grow the sponsorship client base and ensure target attainment.
• Achieve both new and repeat business revenue targets for each event you work on.
• Establishing and nurturing of key accounts and new business within the technology market.
• Attendance and delivery of events across the EMEA region.
• Sourcing and developing sales leads to prospect.
• Preparing sales proposals for sponsorship investments.
• Identify and propose custom-marketing solutions to CEOs and VPs.
• Develop new business clients into key accounts across CDM Media's portfolio of products.
• Implement efficient key account management strategies to maximize client relationship value.

Skills

Sales experience

Communication skills

Prospecting mindset

Can-do attitude

Enthusiastic

Determination

Self-motivation

Fast learner

Presentation skills

Job description

CDM Media operates at the intersection of global enterprise transformation and the technology leaders driving it.

We partner with the world’s most recognized technology brands — including AWS, IBM, Google, Dell, Microsoft, Okta, and Salesforce — to deliver high-impact executive engagement platforms. Through curated Live & Virtual Events, VIP Executive Dinners, Digital Marketing Services, Custom Experiences, and Advisory Services, we connect senior enterprise decision-makers with innovative technology partners.

Our focus is quality over volume — strategic conversations with senior executives inside large-scale enterprises.

Our live events/summits, virtual gatherings, digital marketing services, VIP dinners, and other custom marketing services let C-Level executives cut through the noise and get down to business. If you want to be a part of the fastest-growing sector of the global economy, on the cutting edge of the next wave of game-changing technologies and spend your days speaking to the most successful and brilliant executive in their fields, let’s have a chat.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Selling Sponsorship opportunities across a wide range of Media offerings
• Opportunity to become a product specialist and own direction and development of events in the portfolio
• Create and manage a pipeline of prospects to grow the sponsorship client base and ensure target attainment
• Achieve both new and repeat business revenue targets for each event you work on
• Establishing and nurturing of key accounts and new business within the technology market
• Attendance and delivery of events across the EMEA region
• Sourcing and developing sales leads to prospect
• Preparing sales proposals for sponsorship investments
• Identify and propose custom-marketing solutions to CEOs and VPs
• Develop new business clients into key accounts across CDM Media's portfolio of products
• Implement efficient key account management strategies to maximize client relationship value

Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• 2 years + of sales experience
• Excellent communication skills
• A strong prospecting mindset
• A can-do and will-do attitude
• Enthusiastic, energetic and passionate about personal success
• A true determination to succeed in a business development role
• Self-motivated, with real passion and fire in the belly
• Fast learner with an outgoing personality
• Strong presentation skills

CDM Media offers you:

• A very competitive salary based on experience
• Fantastic commission & bonus structure
• 20 days’ holidays, plus bank holidays
• an additional day of holiday for your birthday when it falls on a weekday
• Sales incentives & prizes throughout the year
• Opportunity for both Europe and USA travel
• Ongoing Training & Development
• Promotion opportunities outlined from day one