Delegate Sales Executive

Location
GU7 1EY, Godalming
Salary
Starting salary £26,000 per annum, plus benefits
Posted
20 Sep 2018
Closes
18 Oct 2018
Ref
FAM0918
Contract Type
Contract

Role: Delegate Sales Executive 

Location: Godalming (near Godalming train station)

Salary: £10 - £15 per hour (dependent on experience), including an individual bonus scheme

Hours: 20 hours per week, flexible hours considered

Contract: Fixed term contract from early October 2018 to end of May 2019

Reporting to: Marketing Manager, VET Festival

Role overview: Responsible for sales of delegate places to vets/vet nurses/practice managers to VET Festival, 7-8 June 2019.

Do you want to promote a unique outdoor life style event whilst maintain your work life balance?  If so, the role of Delegate Sales Executive could make this possible. 

VET Festival is now in its 5th year and is a CPD conference for the veterinary industry with a difference.  It takes place outdoors in a field in Surrey and is unique as it’s a music festival and conference combined with a chilled and relaxed atmosphere.

Key responsibilities for VET Festival:

  • Telesales to all previous delegates to encourage event attendance
  • Conducting new delegate list research and update and enhance the database accordingly reaching out to vets that haven’t been previously
  • Report delegate sales achieved  and pipeline prospects accurately and promptly for weekly reports and keep the Pipeline updated
  • Be aware of all ticket offers and the ability to offer discounts if appropriate
  • Increase the number of group booking and develop strong relationships with key personnel responsible for group bookings 
  • Ensure all delegate bookings are tracked to develop year on year comparisons
  • Understand the events speakers and conference programme to gain better insight for selling the tickets
  • Ensure strong customer service focus at all times dealing with any delegate queries promptly and efficiently
  • Update the database daily and use it to track all conversations etc.

Other responsibilities:

  • Ad hoc admin tasks to support the other Fitz All Media events as and when required – database work and general admin in quieter periods of sales for VET Festival

Skills and experience required

Essential

  • Confident  and concise telephone manner and proven ability to communicate on email and telephone
  • Good written and verbal communication skills and client service intuition
  • Resilient, highly organised, self-starter 

Desirable

  • Developed IT and system skills and experience, in particular Excel and databases 
  • Telesales experience

Applications

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@fitzpatrickreferrals.co.uk

stating which role you are applying for, by Monday 1st October 2018 at 12 noon. 

Early applications are welcome and we reserve the right to close for applications before the closing date.