Job Description

Business:

emap

Brand:

Multiple brands ( Construction News, New Civil Engineer, Nursing Times, Local Government Chronicles and others)

Base Location:

Fleet Street, City of London

Employment Type:

Full-time, Permanent, Hybrid ( 3 days in the office)

Salary:

26,000 + 10k Bonus

As an Event Sales Consultant you are responsible for driving award entries table, and delegate sales revenues across industry leading brands and events. Your key goal is to grow our business sales through world class, award winning events. You will also be expected to exemplify team. standards and behaviours. Driven, with a true desire to succeed in a sales environment. You will be tenacious, resilient, with a true desire to succeed.

Key responsibilities:

Maintain regular telephone contact with your accounts and build excellent working relationships, driving YOY growth. Ensure YOY growth of portfolio through the acquisition of new business, including sourcing your own business leads. Lead trading updates with your line manager and key stakeholders weekly and always have 100% accuracy event numbers and pipelines. Maintain a robust and ambitious sales plan and ensure maximum delivery against sales targets for entire portfolio. To raise and maintain brand profile and become the recognised face of your portfolio, internally and externally. Closely monitor competitor activity and understand the market forces influencing your sector. Be an example to the team and set the standard with regards to KPI's, target performance and behaviours.

Skills and Experience:

Proven and successful track record of a consultative new business approach. Event sales experience is advantageous. Education to degree level or equivalent is desirable. Intermediate Microsoft Office skills. Experienced using CRM.

Core competencies:

Strong commercial awareness. Collaborative team player. Time management and organizational skills. Exceptional customer service standards both internal and external.

Personal Attributes:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated Entrepreneurial and curious. High level of emotional intelligence. Proactive approach to personal development. Representing the brand, you will be an ambassador. High integrity with a strong work ethic.

What we offer

Learning & Development:

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.

Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives.

To support our employees' career development, we have designed specialised programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy

.

Benefits:

emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days. Pro-rata for part-time employees. One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day Health plan Life assurance Private virtual GP access Seasonal flu jabs available at the office Continuous learning & development opportunities In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects Cycle-to-work scheme Discounted gym memberships Retail discount vouchers Rail season ticket loans Pension scheme One paid volunteer day per year Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations Work from home during August Income protection and more

Privacy:

Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 26,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Company events Cycle to work scheme Free flu jabs Health & wellbeing programme Paid volunteer time Referral programme Sick pay Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:

London EC4Y 8DP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):

We'd love to hear about any telesales experience you've had, even if it was in a junior or short-term role. Could you tell us how comfortable you are managing admin tasks and working towards targets, and how these skills would support you in an Event Sales environment?
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London EC4Y 8DP