Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager– Events

£40,000 - £50,000 + Uncapped Commission + Excellent Benefits

London

Globally renowned media events business seeks a highly driven, results focused Business Development Manager to join their sales team.

Our client’s events bring together senior leaders from some of the most prominent companies in the world including Barclays, Shell, Unilever, Tesco and GSK to share insights and benchmark strategies.

Partnership revenue is the commercial engine at their events, and they are looking for a Business Development Manager to help grow their partnerships across the portfolio.

This is a high-impact commercial role focused on building relationships with senior decision-makers and selling partnership opportunities (bespoke sponsorship) to companies looking to connect with their executive audience.

Key skills

• 1–3 years’ experience in a sales or business development role - Ideally recruitment, media sales or software sales.

• Degree Educated

• Confidence speaking with senior decision-makers

• Strong research and prospecting skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• High levels of organisation and attention to detail

• The ability to work in a fast-paced, target-driven environment

• A collaborative mindset and positive attitude

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.

We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.