Business Development Manager – Sustainability

Lipton Media; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Business Development Manager – Sustainability

Award winning media events business seeks a highly talented Business Development Manager to join their high growth media business selling sponsorship and exhibition opportunities across a leading renewable energy event.

We are keen to hear from candidates with 12-24 months ideally from a B2B sales background and degree educated ideally. Any experience in delegate sales or exhibition/sponsorship/sustainability would be a great advantage.

Role: Business Development Manager – Sponsorship Sales

1. Generating new business, increasing pipeline and bringing on new prospects
2. Manage a number of existing accounts
3. Sell high-value sponsorship opportunities
4. Pitch clients over the phone and through face to face meetings
5. Attend competitor events
6. Consultative selling is a key part of this role; the right candidate should be able to sell creatively, through solution led selling

Profile of Candidate:

1. 1-2 years + in B2B sales – ideally conferences and ideally some experience within sustainability
2. Strong desire to sell
3. Degree educated ideally
4. Excellent communication skills
5. Successful track record achieving revenue targets
6. Someone with a consultative sales approach is a necessity here

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of B2B media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.