Senior Sales Manager (Events and Conferencing)

The Role:

Our Romford based client, a market leader in producing law events and conferences are looking for an experienced Senior Sales Manager to join and lead their expanding team

Duties will include:

• Responsible for all Sales functions
• Managing all of the sales teams including the Business Development and Advertising Executives

• Managing the sales team to ensure they meet their targets. 
• Training, developing and motivating your sales team to maximise their potential 
• Achieving forecasted sales by following your plan of action.
• Making every effort to maximise both present and long term sales and gross profits. 
• Ensure that the sales floor operations functions smoothly.
• Review the performance of your salespeople and motivate them to even greater achievements. 

Candidate Requirements:

The successful candidate MUST be an experienced Sales Manager, ideally in an events or conference sales environment although experienced B2B Sales Managers will also be considered. You should also have/be:

• A proven track record in managing and directing a highly skilled, successful and results-oriented sales force.
• Ability to drive the business to meet agreed objectives and targets
• Strong leadership qualities with good communication and interpersonal skills 
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Self-motivated and target driven
• Good IT and MS office skills
• An excellent command of English both spoken and written

A general knowledge of the legal sector would be advantageous but is not essential as training will be provided

Benefits

A competitive basic salary and uncapped commission. 

Non contractual Benefits:

This company have a very “work hard, play hard” philosophy

On average twice per year the owners take all of the staff away for a few days of partying. For the last trip they hired a Chateau in France.