Flexible working arangements offered - Are you looking for a fantastic step in your events career, joining some of Birmingham's most iconic venues?

THE COMPANY

This iconic Birmingham based venue hosts a varied range of large-scale events such as conferences, dinners, weddings and meetings - with the opportunity to make events as bespoke as possible for both private and corporate clients.

Continually growing their portfolio, they have a broad base of interesting clients. The multi-purpose venue offers a versatile backdrop for a wide range of business, as well as having an exciting in-house event programme! 

THE ROLE

With a growing number of events and clients, there is now the opportunity for a Senior Business Development Manager to come onboard as part of the management team in delivering a successful events calendar. 

This is a broad role that includes:

• Lead the team to drive business growth, maximising income and profitability for the venues
• Develop new commercial opportunities and improve revenue generation from conferences and events
• Working closely with the Managing Director to create the Business Plan, Sales and Marketing Plan and Annual Budgets
• Working closely with the Catering and Operations team
• Work in partnership with the Managing Director to ensure the selling prices, reflect the operational delivery costs to ensure that the profit expectations are delivered
• Lead the sales team in the day-to-day delivery of the sales and marketing plans, reporting on the monthly sales activity plans of team members
• Receiving and responding to incoming enquires into the venue
• Upselling the events space and offerings of the venue
• Strengthening and developing relationships 
• Plan, organise and attend promotional and networking events

THE CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate will ideally have previous experience of working within an events venue from a sales and business development perspective. Previous team management or mentorship would be beneficial.

In return they offer a whole host of excellent employee benefits including tickets to events, discounts across various outlets, generous pension, as well as the chance to be a part of a nationally recognised venue with a friendly and sociable team! Due to the nature of the role, there may be occasions where weekend and evening work is required - however this will be limited.

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