Sales and Partnerships Executive

Job purpose:

To source new commercial partners.

Duties and responsibilities:

To be committed to ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of all staff, customers and clients of the Club;
To build a pipeline of new sales opportunities through proactive calling and networking;
Maintain a full understanding of our product inventory and offerings to the market;
To source and close new business;
Plan sales activities to achieve key performance indictors (KPI’s) and targets;
To create bespoke sales and partnership proposals as well as selling existing inventory;
To work closely with the Hospitality Department to assist with growth of revenue attached to this area;
To identify profitable sales and commercial opportunities to grow revenue/income at the Club;
Respond to and follow up sales enquiries and leads;
Generate reports to feedback on sales performance;
Attend networking events;
Log all information in a CRM;
To make commercial recommendations to the Head of Commercial;
To contribute to marketing and commercial communications strategy including direct mail, digital, e-comms and social media; and
Work with customers and internal partnerships team to ensure their needs are met to ensure excellent customer service is achieved and build strong customer relationships,

Skills required:

Commercially astute and customer focused approach with desire to sell;
Ability to negotiate and influence with a proven strategic aptitude;
Inquisitive nature that wants to learn more about people’s businesses;
Self-motivated with the ability to work proactively using own initiative;
Excellent and strong presentation and IT skills including the use of Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook;
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Excellent social media skills and understand how to maximise sources such as LinkedIn to generate interest and sales;
Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection; and
A high degree of self-motivation and ambition.

How to Apply

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