Senior Sales Manager - #2095044

Senior Sales Manager / Portfolio Commercial Manager

£55,000 - £60,000 Base + Coms

London

Leading media events business seeks a highly accomplished Portfolio Commercial Manager / Senior Sales Manager to join their Hospitality portfolio, leading the commercial sales strategy and delivery across two flagship brands.

The Portfolio Commercial Manager will operate as a hands-on “player-manager”, responsible for creating and delivering the commercial plan in line with the wider event strategy, while coaching and developing the sales team to drive performance, pipeline growth and revenue delivery.

Alongside team leadership, the role will also retain responsibility for key accounts, sponsorship opportunities and new business generation across the portfolio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Senior Sales Manager / Portfolio Commercial Manager

• Lead, manage and train a sales team of 5 sales & senior sales executives.
• Develop & deliver robust commercial plans that align with wider business objectives, identifying revenue opportunities, setting clear sales targets, and driving strategic initiatives to maximise growth, customer retention, and long-term commercial success.
• Lead & champion the effective use of the CRM system across the sales team, ensuring accurate data allocation, high-quality pipeline management, accurate reporting and driving customer engagement & commercial performance.
• Key account and account management.
• New business development.
• Floor plan management.

KEY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Senior Sales Manager / Portfolio Commercial Manager

• Experience within the events (exhibitions) industry a priority.
• Management of sales team a preference.
• Self-motivated and performance driven, with a desire to achieve goals and attain commercial success.
• Ability to demonstrate advanced objection handling, negotiation and closing skills both over the phone and face to face.
• Great verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise tasks and manage workload with effective sales planning.
• Experience of writing detailed partnership and sponsorship proposals.
• Knowledge and experience using CRM systems (ideally Hubspot).
• Ability to nurture strong key client relationships.

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.

We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.