Event Sales Manager

The Event Sales Manager is responsible for the sale of delegate tickets for events and media business within Australia and New Zealand and/or Southeast Asia. The Sales Executive will grow delegate sales revenue by identifying potential new clients, cold calling prospective customers, managing customer enquiries, conducting sales calls, negotiating, and closing delegate registrations.

**About the Role**
As an Events Sales Manager, you will:

- Build new leads for events with a view of securing additional sales
- Understand key value position in an event agenda, and be able to deliver prepared sales talks in order to persuade potential clients to purchase a delegate ticket
- Deliver a high level of customer service including and not limited to: Explain services and prices, answer questions from customers, follow through the sales process, and support the customers’ requirements until end of the event.
- Obtain customer information such as name, address, and payment method, and enter orders into the registration system.
- Record names, contact details, purchases, and reactions of prospects contacted and manage a pipeline to ensure an adequate number of leads are identified and converted into sales
- Address inbound enquiries from potential customers regarding upcoming classes in a timely and professional manner
- Provide timely, accurate and informative reports to your manager
- Work closely with the event and management teams to consistently improve service offerings, and to ensure that fulfilments are delivered timely
- To meet and exceed all assigned sales targets
- Be onsite at the event if assigned to an in-person event and be present for all virtual events.
- A positive attitude, and a cheerful demeanor in communication with customers

**About You**
As an Events Sales Manager, you should have:

- Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience in telesales with sales targets required.
- Independent, results driven, and customer focused in a fast-moving environment
- Ability to pick up key points in a programme agenda, build rapport with key customers and communicate clearly and fluently.
- Fluency in English is a requirement, fluency in other Asian languages is an advantage.

**What's in it For You?**

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