About the Role
Play a key role in building world-leading business conferences by securing the attendance of senior professionals. Receive training, tools, and responsibility to develop commercial skills and accelerate your career.
Responsibilities
- Drive revenue by selling delegate passes to senior professionals for international conferences.
- Proactively reach out to prospective delegates and convert them into paying attendees.
- Take ownership of ambitious monthly revenue targets and consistently work towards exceeding them.
- Make 60+ calls per day and create approximately 10 qualified sales opportunities or proposals in a fast-paced outbound sales environment.
- Manage prospects from initial conversation through to closing, ensuring opportunities progress.
- Develop a strong understanding of conferences, audiences, and industries to effectively communicate value.
- Collaborate with marketing, content, and conference teams to enhance campaigns and delegate experience.
Requirements
- Strong work ethic, high sense of urgency, and a genuine desire to succeed.
- Enjoy competing against ambitious targets and are motivated by performance improvement.
- Enjoy the sales process, from chase and conversation to closing deals.
- Highly motivated, competitive, and driven to excel.
- Excited by targets, revenue, and the opportunity to influence earnings through performance.
- Comfortable with a high volume of outbound activity and persistent in overcoming objections.
- Confident in speaking with new people and communicating professionally and persuasively.
- Genuinely curious about people and able to build rapport quickly with senior professionals.
- Able to prioritize effectively and manage a large number of prospects, conversations, and follow-ups.
- Actively seek feedback and continuously look for ways to improve performance.
- Demonstrate a history of setting ambitious goals and pushing to achieve them.
- Previous sales experience is an advantage but not a requirement.
- Exceptional graduates and early-career candidates with demonstrated drive, communication skills, and a competitive mindset are encouraged to apply.
- Must have a UK work permit.
Skills
- Sales
- Outbound sales
- Pipeline management
- Communication
- Relationship building
- Organization
- Commercial mindset
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Early-career candidates
- Graduate
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
- Attractive commission structure
Benefits
- Uncapped earning potential
- Rapid development opportunities
- Continuous coaching and feedback
- International exposure
- International travel opportunities
- Unlimited growth potential
- Internal promotion opportunities
About the Company
- Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum, strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking.
- Connects over 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.
- Retail Insights is part of United Media, which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors like insurance, HR, private equity, and retail.
- United Media has organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.
