Business Development Manager, Africa Tech Festivals
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Job Summary
This role is based in our 5 Howick Place office.
Africa Tech Festival part of Informa Festivals is the continents leading technology event bringing together 15000 attendees and 300 partners each year. We are hiring a pure new business hunter to accelerate sponsorship and exhibition revenue from enterprise and blue-chip technology brands.
This role is about winning new logos. You will be highly proactive commercially driven and comfortable building opportunities from scratch owning the full sales cycle and closing meaningful high-value deals.
What Youll Do
- Identify target and win new business sponsorship and exhibition partners
- Build and execute outbound strategies into enterprise technology accounts
- Own the full sales cycle: prospecting discovery solution design negotiation and close
- Sell high-value ROI-led partnerships across live events and digital products
- Close 56 figure deals with senior decision-makers at global and regional tech brands
- Build and maintain a strong self-generated pipeline
- Forecast accurately and deliver consistently against revenue targets
- Operate at pace within a high-energy high-performance sales team
- Use social selling and Salesforce to manage pipeline and activity
Qualifications :
What Were Looking For
- 3 years experience in new business sponsorship exhibition or solution-based sales
- Proven track record as a hunter winning new logos in a competitive B2B environment
- Demonstrable success closing 56 figure deals ideally with blue-chip or enterprise brands
- High-agency resilient and proactive comfortable opening doors and creating momentum
- Strong commercial instincts with confident value-led selling skills
- Experience using CRM systems for pipeline forecasting and activity logging
Additional Information :
We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. Thats why we work in-person with each other or with customers and partners three days a week or more. When youre not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at an Informa event you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.
We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Heres some of what you can expect when you join us. But dont just take our word for it see what our colleagues have to say
Our benefits include:
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When its time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: 25 days annual leave rising to 27 days after two years plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance mental health first aiders a healthy living subsidy access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
Were not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most although not all of the skills and experience listed we welcome your application.
If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and or in the advertised position please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence. At Informa youll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Sales Experience
- B2B Sales
- Marketing
- Cold Calling
- Account Management
- Territory Management
- Salesforce
- Affiliate Marketing
- CRM Software
- negotiation
- Lead Generation
About Company
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