Sales Executive

Informa PLC; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Informa PLC is seeking a motivated sales professional to join their dynamic Hospitality, Food & Beverage team. You'll sell exhibition space and drive business growth within an experienced team. The role involves significant international travel, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to build long-term customer relationships. Ideal candidates have 1-2 years' sales experience with a passion for the food and hospitality sector.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years sales experience preferred.
• Proven track record in hitting individual and team revenue targets.
• Ability to communicate at senior level.

Responsibilities

• Develop & grow sales across multiple global regions.
• Generate new business, close existing leads, and service customers.
• Travel frequently to international food and hospitality events.

Skills

Relationship building

Sales experience

New business generation

Excellent organisation skills

Team player

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

Informa Markets , a division within Informa, creates global platforms for industries. We organise over 500 large-scale branded and transaction-oriented events in 14 specialist markets. These are typically not-to-be-missed annual events where buyers and sellers build relationships, see and show products and do business.

Informa’s Hospitality, Food & Beverage program of B2B trade events is considered the most prodigious global food and hospitality trade show portfolio. With over 30 industry leading events in 13 countries, the portfolio is the industry standard for quality food, drinks, hospitality, foodservice and bakery exhibitions for over 40 years and includes the market leading brands FHA, FHC, HOFEX & Natural Products Expo.

Job Description

You will sell exhibition stand space & added value products across the food & hospitality portfolio of events, handling existing accounts, driving new business growth and generating new leads.

You will be working within an experienced, passionate and dynamic team with a hard-work ethic. You will be expected to develop and manage your own pipeline by phone, email and face-to-face selling and will therefore need to be tenacious and enthusiastic

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop & grow sales across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East
• Generate new business and close existing leads through telephone canvasing, research, face to face sales and implementing sales campaigns
• Service existing customers to Informa standards and maintain & build long-term customer relationships
• Work to targets with accurate reporting to management and keeping detailed sales records
• Liaise with overseas offices and international representatives of Informa
• International travel to food and hospitality events around the world

Qualifications

You will be a well-motivated, ambitious and successful sales professional, ideally with 1-2 years sales experience. You must show a determination and ability to deliver and exceed sales results with a proven track record.

• Proven track record in hitting and exceeding individual and team revenue targets
• Professional telephone sales manner
• New business generation
• Sales experience including telephone canvasing, researching/sourcing potential new leads and proposal writing
• Relationship building
• Self-sufficient, self-motivated, resilient, determined, assertive, good objection handler, capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines and prioritizing
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Team player, capable of dealing with strong personalities and being assertive
• Strong work ethic
• Detail-oriented, flexible, energetic and methodical
• Resilient and determined; problem solver and decision-maker
• Ability to communicate at senior level, authoritative
• Numerate/Literate
• Professionalism, integrity, must be well-presented
• Administration skills - organised – planner

Additional Information

Working hours from 8am - 4.30 pm

Working mimium of 2 days at 240 Blackfriaris office (Monday & Wednesday)

Ability to travel frequently to a number of international destinations essential

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Our benefits include: (Talent Partner to complete with regionalised benefits list)

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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