Account Director, The Beauty Show

We’re looking for an Account Director to join a growing events team, working as part of the event sales team on an exciting new event in the beauty sector - The Beauty Show. This new event is taking place in September 2024, attracting some of the best brands who wish to showcase their products to our affluent audiences.

What you’ll be doing…

As Account Director, you’ll be responsible for selling stand space, building up a new client base and developing key business relationships. You’ll be required to generate revenue by contacting prospective new clients, focusing on customers interested in our new beauty event.

You’ll also manage a Sales Executive who will support you achieving the stand sales target.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• Ideally, experience within a sales role on consumer events or exhibitions.
• Track record in a sales environment, preferably within the exhibition sales environment.
• Excellent communication skills to manage your own workload to ensure exhibitors receive a consistent, high level of customer care from contracting through to the event.
• Demonstrable success in sales.
• Organized with good time management.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good negotiation and objection handling skills.
Demonstrable Beauty industry knowledge and client contact base is highly desirable.

What’s in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

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  Internal job family level P4.

The expected range for this role is £35,000 - £60,000.

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

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Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness. Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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