Hybrid Delegate Sales Executive, French Speaker

at Clarion Events

• Job title: Delegate Sales Executive, French Speaker
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Delegate Sales Executive responsible for selling EnergyNet’s conferences over the phone in English and French. Building client relationships and meeting sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Selling over the phone to existing, and potential new clients, to meet realistic sales revenue targets both in English and French.
• Creating, developing, and maintaining excellent relationships with clients through a consultative sales approach, demonstrating the value of attending EnergyNet’s conferences.
• Keeping abreast of market developments, identifying, and researching new growth areas for sales.
• Maintaining key customer care objectives.
• Help develop strategies and initiatives with your line manager to ensure the ongoing growth and development of the conferences and your role.
• Liaising with the Marketing Team and Line Manager to follow up on enquiries, upselling, database updates, new business, group sales, and reports.
• Monitoring and evaluation of all competitor activity.
• Ensuring and assisting accounts personnel in the timely payment of all customer payments.

Requirements

• Commercially minded, demonstrating excellent market and product knowledge.
• Fluency in spoken French is essential with an understanding of foreign business cultures being advantageous.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong listening and communication skills.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Confident, resilient, and responding well under pressure.
• Customer focused and able to problem-solve quickly.
• Ability to negotiate and build rapport effectively.
• Strong drive and ambition, displaying confidence and tenacity.
• Demonstrates objection handling skills, trust, and credibility to a potential customer base.
• A tenacious ‘can do’ approach to work with a desire to exceed targets.
• Flexibility to travel internationally when required.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
• Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
• Mentoring Programme
• Subsidised Café
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free on-site gym and shower facilities
• Free eyesight tests
• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees