Sponsorship Sales Manager - Reuters Events

Sponsorships Sales Manager - Reuters Events

This is a full-time position based in London.

Looking to take your sales career to the next level? Want to help grow communities and learn how world markets and industries work within a world-class company? Want to be part of events that change and shape the future of leading business initiatives? If so, this might be the role for you! We’re looking for a Sponsorship Sales Manager to join Reuters Events, a fast-growing business within Reuters.

If you want real responsibility, to be making a commercial impact from your first day and the opportunity to develop your career quickly, we’re interested in talking to you. Established in 1990 as FCBI, Reuters Events was acquired by Reuters in 2019. We deliver world-class conferences and content across the globe, and work with industry leaders and visionaries to provide the critical intelligence senior level executives need to make strategic decisions.

Reuters Events brings together Reuters globally trusted brand, scale and editorial excellence aligned with domain expertise. We provide content-led conferences for professionals in highly specialized industry sectors  to complement our extensive, in-depth content. Reuters Events exists to deliver the intelligence and foster the relationships that shape strategy and safeguard success at leading companies worldwide.

About the Role

As a Sponsorship Sales Manager, you will:

• Conduct consultative business development selling B2B conference sponsorship packages

• Work on an established brand with a strong database of existing contacts

• Develop and maintain long-term relationships with new and existing global clients

• Identify and capitalise on new opportunities to generate revenue.

• Work as part of a team to hit and exceed revenue targets

• Network with existing and prospective clients at international events

To be our Sponsorship Sales Manager, you will likely be:

• Business development and consultative sales experience

• Experience in event sponsorship not necessary but highly valuable (exhibitions, trade shows, confex)

• Hard working and committed with an excellent phone work ethic

• Pro-active, persuasive & confident

• An ability to understand client’s needs and adopt a tailored approach

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What’s in it For You

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities

• Learning & Development: we have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our employees

• Benefits: we offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits

• Perks:  Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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