Senior Sales Manager – Food/Drink Expos

£45,000 - £50,000 + Commission + Excellent Benefits

Hybrid

Leading media events business seeks a highly talented senior Commercial Manager to join their sales team both selling across an industry leading food and drink expo as well as managing a junior sales team.

You will be tasked with selling exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at a flagship expo together with developing a small team of commercial executives.

This position involves a large mix of key accounts and some new business with regular face to face meetings at industry events.

You will lead and support part of the sales team, providing guidance, training, and development to enhance team members’ performance and professional growth.

Candidate Profile:

• Minimum of 5 years of exhibition sales experience and at least 2 years of line management experience, with a proven track record of developing team members and driving sales results.
  
  
• Demonstrated success in achieving results within exhibitions and sponsorship sales, consistently meeting and exceeding targets.
  
  
• Highly organised, with the ability to effectively prioritise and manage time to maximize productivity and achieve goals.
  
  
• High emotional intelligence, skilled in building and sustaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
  
  
• Personable and enthusiastic, with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach—a true team player committed to collective success.
  
  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