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his well reputed company are a long-standing business based in the Blackfriars, Waterloo, Southwark area. They are a mid-sized specialist recruitment business focusing on international hires into mainly Europe and North America, they are early stage funded clients up to stock market listed clients and you would have access to partner top scale brands, collaborating across the business and traveling to meet clients internationally. The organisation also own an events business. All directors and managers have been promoted from within and there is a strong focus on organic stable growth as well as strong client partnerships with communities, face to face events and working closely with the events and marketing teams.

The Role

The organisation run around 8-10 events a year aimed at their target audience - CTO's and HRD's. The recruiters gain huge benefit from having the opportunity to sell to clients directly face to face and use this as a great networking tool. So the events business was set up to aid this endeavor. They have however also started to sell to other companies (partners) who would want to make use of the same network to sell to the same target audience. They are making about 200k a year doing this on the side and would like to formalise this into a role. You would pick up existing business and pick up new clients.

The role will involve

* Working closely with the events and marketing team to understand the upcoming schedule of events

* Create a feedback loop between your clients and marketing and events to ensure the events will be of interest to your clients

* Marketing and events will create events of use to the recruitment functions and you will then work out which other companies in the market would make use of the same client base

The B2B Executive will do initial outreach to potential clients about the sponsorship options that you have. Packages will be £5k to £50k and upwards. Clients can sign up to one or more event and occasionally if there is a business case you could create events that would suit potential clients to aid your sales. They are only likely to go ahead if the same target audience could be of use to the recruiters in the business so you will need to be excellent at stakeholder management and making sure all sides are happy

The successful Sales Executive will manage existing clients, continue their sponsorship contracts, ensure they are happy with the service, consult them on the details of the events, the attendees and make sure they have a good experience when they attend

The Event Sales executive will be attending these events and they are most likely in Europe. You will have your travel paid for etc.

You will work with the business to ensure that the events are well attended helping if needed to provide outreach to possible attendees as well as sponsors.

You will receive an account commission for existing business and a new business commission for any new sponsors you enroll

The Package

Basic salary depending on experience. Commission scheme to be designed with the individual in mind as part of the hiring process. 4 days in the office per week, 1 from home

The Benefits

* Work from anywhere scheme meaning you can extend any holidays abroad working internationally for some of the year (12 days)

* Christmas shut down giving 4 more days off a year, Day off for your birthday, 2 days off for volunteering each year

* Very enhanced maternity and paternity leave

* Strong family policy with dependent working hours, flexible working, even support for stillbirth and miscarriage. Very family friendly company!

* Gym allowance, dental

* Onsite gym and onsite showers

* Many internal committees for environmental and diversity programmes

* Pool table, table tennis, darts, board games, chill out areas, books

* Business smart/ smart depending on client meetings

* Quarterly lunch / dinner club

* Team incentives, Company wide events, Company wide team building

* Company all inclusive holidays and Days out with directors

* Quarterly sales meetings/ parties

* Highly diverse, multi-cultural sales floor

* Early Friday finishes

The Requirements

* Experience in B2B sales involving a lot of initial outreach

* Gravitas to work with senior HR and Tech professionals at CEO minus 1 level

* You will likely have around 2 years or more of B2B sales

* You must be willing to attend events internationally

* You must be already living in the UK, with travel access to the office within a reasonable commute

* You must be happy to work in the office 4 days a week

* You must have experience of using LinkedIn as a sales tool

* You will need to be excellent at managing multiple stakeholders

You need to be happy working as an individual contributor, working directly with the owners of the company, you will be in a high profile role with a strong light shone on you, you will not however be building a team this is a stand alone role for now. There will be other routes to develop internally and this can be discussed at interview