Sales Manager - Education Conference & Exhibition DMG Events

Key Accountabilities:

• Managing a portfolio of key accounts with five and six figure contract value effectively
• Cultivate strong relationships with multiple senior stakeholders with a consultative approach
• Achieving and exceeding agreed show and personal revenue and profit targets
• Undertaking research to understand the market objectives, aims and ambitions of your client base
• To work closely with and within each business to identify its aims, objectives and requirements
• Tailor opportunities available, creating strong partnership propositions
• To identify new sales opportunities and develop them into long-term relationships
• Work closely with other departments, content, marketing, and sales to operate as one team.
• Open to taking on leadership and support of leadership roles on occasion
• Open to mentoring others
• Attend events and liaising with exhibitor and sponsor clients onsite to ensure that their contract is fulfilled and all their concerns and needs are addressed.
• Keep up to date via a wide range of material including various industry publications relevant to the topic areas and audiences of assigned conferences for developments and trends in the industry.

Job Context:

We are looking for an experienced and influential individual with excellent working relationships within both the Education (particularly oil & gas, renewables) and event organisation sectors, with proven event business development skills. We expect the new team member to be a proactive hunter, an ambitious individual to expand dmg Asia s multi-million portfolio, with attractive awards for meeting and exceeding targets. There is also robust opportunity for you to grow into a leadership role, were this your next career objective.

Qualifications, Experience, & Skills:

Key requirements for the role
Extensive experience (6 years) in B2B conference and exhibition sponsorship sales, which should mainly and/or most recently have occurred within the Education sector
Strong knowledge of and familiarity with the dynamics throughout the traditional Education sector and, ideally, in new areas of renewable Education
A solid understanding of the Education market from both commercial and technical perspectives
Previous senior responsibility for ambitious sales targets, demonstrating ability to consistently meet and exceed these targets
Previous experience having trained salespeople and having developed a methodology/material that are instrumental in this process
Ability and proven experience of working with a wide range of cultures
Personal Attributes
Customer Focused put the customer at the heart of everything we do, rapport building, post-sale relationship management, account management
Harding working - Strong work ethic representing our industry leading brands
Studious - Desire to learn and embrace best practice within your discipline
Respectful demonstrate consistency and reliability in all areas
Collaborative display open communication and innovation
Proactive take initiative on opportunities and test your ideas
Efficient display excellent time management and prioritisation
Effective focusing on the right things at the right time to deliver the best results
Entrepreneurial - agile, adaptable, innovative, proactive
Professional accountable, responsible, reliable, consistent, attention to detail, trustworthy
Disciplined time management, drive, focus, organised, work ethic, efficiency
Positive resilient, adaptable, flexible, Education, passion
Technical abilities
Sales ability questioning skills, proposal writing, objection handling, urgency, presentation skills, closing, building value, negotiating
Pipeline management/forecasting
Sales planning lead sourcing, researching, market mapping, positioning
Business Insight market/industry, product, customer
IT Skills MS Office, CRM systems