Perm - £50 - £60k,
Handle Recruitment is seeking a Business Development Director with experience in event sponsorship/marketing solutions to join a leader in B2B Healthcare Events.
As the Business Development Director your responsibilities will include:
- Proactively and strategically source and secure new business revenue in agreed territory whilst managing and growing existing accounts
- Develop a comprehensive sales plan that exceeds your monthly, quarterly and annual sales target
- Balance consultative selling with selling the range of products in the portfolio
- Forecast effectively - weekly, monthly, quarterly
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with customers
- Feedback customer insights into product creation
- Develop and maintain constructive and collaborative working relationships with sales, event and support functions
- Gather information and analyze previous year activities and results
- Provide guidance in developing the marketing plan based on priorities, partner resources and budgets
- Follow existing, evolve and create new processes to support a timely, quality, streamlined output and performance
- Monitor market and competitor activity and understand the market forces affecting the sector
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Extensive b2b event sponsorship sales experience in an events business or similar
- A successful history of hitting sales targets
- Demonstrable new business development success
- Experience of selling marketing solutions sales
- Good knowledge of SalesForce, Sales Navigator or similar
Please apply now for a further conversation!
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
