Are you looking to join a fast-growing creative events agency delivering exceptional live experiences for major national brands? Do you enjoy building new client relationships, identifying commercial opportunities and shaping growth within a collaborative, ambitious business?
- Hybrid working
- Commission structure
- Excellent career progression
- Supportive company culture
The Company:
This award-winning live events agency specialises in delivering impactful experiences across corporate events, conferences, brand activations and audience engagement projects. Working with a broad portfolio of well-known clients, they are recognised for blending creative thinking, technical production and event delivery expertise to produce memorable experiences that connect brands with their audiences.
The team provide a fully integrated service including event strategy, creative development, technical production, digital content, delegate management and onsite delivery. Their in-house approach enables them to deliver everything from conferences and awards ceremonies through to exhibitions, roadshows and immersive brand activations.
The Role
Due to continued growth, they are now looking for a Business Development Manager to join their expanding commercial team. This role will focus on generating new business opportunities, developing strategic partnerships and driving revenue growth across the live events and experiential sector.
This is a varied role where the Business Development Manager will combine strong commercial acumen, relationship-building skills and sector knowledge, including:
• Identifying and securing new business opportunities across corporate events, conferences and experiential projects
• Building and nurturing relationships with prospective clients across a variety of sectors
• Leading the sales process from initial outreach through to proposal and pitch stages
• Collaborating closely with internal creative and production teams to develop compelling client solutions
• Managing a healthy pipeline of opportunities and reporting on sales performance
• Representing the business at networking events, industry exhibitions and client meetings
• Supporting wider strategic growth plans and contributing to long-term business development initiatives
The Candidate:
Candidates should ideally be working in a similar role as a Business Development Manager, Sales Manager or Account Director within an events or experiental agency. A strong track record in winning new business, developing client relationships and understanding the live events landscape is essential for this role. Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.
As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity. We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Vacancy Ref - LE17492
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