Sports Recruitment International

RedTorch Ltd provides commercial strategy, sales and marketing services for some of the most prestigious b2b events and projects within the international sports sector.  Our clients include the world’s most renowned annual sports business convention – SportAccord Convention and the original and oldest Sports Awards Ceremony in Great Britain - the SJA British Sports Awards.

The Role

As RedTorch enters an exciting period of growth, a great opportunity for a bright, enthusiastic and self motivated individual has developed within the team based in Farringdon. This is a great opportunity for a candidate to either enter or build upon their business development experience and work within the International Sport Federation environment.

The successful candidate will take on the role of Business Development Executive and work with the commercial team across a growing range of projects, focusing primarily on the SportAccord Convention and other sport business conventions as and when required. 

You will be principally responsible for selling exhibition space and delegate places to both existing clients and new prospects, with whom you will build excellent relationships.  There will be a possibility for early progression to larger, more complex sponsorship sales if you excel in your position.  

The Person

To be considered for the role you must be a results-driven individual with bags of initiative and enthusiasm.  Highly motivated, you are a team player but also capable of self-motivation and effective time management.  You will have an excellent aptitude for learning and be able to adopt an intelligent and consultative approach to client liaison and sales.

Key skills & experience:

The successful candidate will have:

• 6 months to 1.5 year’s successful sales track record (or be a very bright graduate)
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence to liaise and negotiate with senior level decision makers within organisations
• Excellent computer literacy with ability to learn new programmes quickly where required.
• Strong organisational skills
• Excellent self-motivation , ability to work on own initiative AND be a team player
• Familiarity with internet search engines and social media platforms / the ability to learn quickly.

 

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