Area Manager jobs in United States

Job Sector

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

Crawley (Monday/Tuesday) + Working from Home

Job Reference

Do you have exhibition sales experience?

Like the idea of selling exhibition and sponsorship solutions to large clients?

Can you commute to Crawley 2 times a week?

If yes, please read on....

The Company

A global media and events business operating across the b2b food, retail and hospitality sectors. They have a friendly, dynamic and collaborative culture with plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

The Role of Commercial Manager

As Commercial Manager you will be managing a team of 2 junior sales people, whilst also selling exhibition, sponsorship and thought leadership opportunities across an annual large scale event for the b2b hospitality sector. You will be selling to any and every type of supplier who is targeting restaurants, caterers and similar.

These would include FMCG brands (such as Coca Cola), artisan food producers and manufacturers of specialist kitchen equipment through to delivery providers (such as Uber Eats).

You will manage the largest spending clients with 80% of your revenue coming from existing clients and 20% from new business.

Although the role includes management, the client will consider people without managerial experience, who are keen to learn.

Requirements for this Commercial Manager position

• Confident, articulate and outgoing
• Strong at networking and relationship building
• Eager to manage others
• Stable career history
• Able to work from Crawley offices twice a week
• Able to drive

If you think that you could be the Commercial Manager we are looking for, please apply.