Events Senior Account Manager

About the Company

A fantastic opportunity to join a successful and fast-growing Events/Tech company located in Sussex on a twelve-month fixed term contract basis as a Senior level Account Manager. The company are a three-pillar agency combining event management, venue sourcing and event technology. This allows the business to deliver a full events solution to their clients.

From finding the right events venue, to designing and delivering the guest experience and delivering a high-quality service. The technical side of the business has grown significantly and provides a high-end bespoke technology service to their clients. The full experience is very personal to each client.

About the Role

You will possess demonstrable experience, ideally from an Agency background and have a mix of project managing and leading projects for and behalf of larger clients along with identifying any new business opportunities.

An Account Manager with some business development experience would be the ideal mix as you will have the opportunity to pitch to new clients and to have a business/sales perspective of growing existing clients. You will be passionate about working with the technical arm of the business and assist in promoting the bespoke event registration booking App.

You will be the conduit between the experienced technical team and the client. The role is client facing and some national and international travel will be required on occasions and full travel expenses are provided. The role is mainly based remotely, however there is a requirement to work occasional days in the office when required that is located in East Sussex.

The company is very much growing and this is a good chance to work with some amazing and well-known clients! There is a competitive salary on offer, great company benefits and a positive, professional and friendly working environment.

Required Skills and experience

• Minimum of four solid years experience at a Senior Account Manager or Client Director level for an Events business/Agency working with larger clients
• Experience of working with an Events Registration app
• Knowledge of Cvent is highly desirable
• Knowledge or experience of working with Jira or Figma is highly desirable
• Highly professional with a personable and warm nature
• Highly organised, ability to think on your feet and reactive
• Strong problem solver
• Strong relationship building skills and a good listener
• Outstanding communication skills, face to face, verbally and written
• Experience of people management and work delegation
• A natural passion/interest in Tech
• Solid experience of Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint are all essential
• Business development, pitching/presentation experience
• Loves to be part of a close-knit team and work collaboratively
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and accountable for own workload