DO you want to work for a professional football club?

Here's a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated individual with experience in sales or account management to join the team at Crewe Alexandra.

The sought-after role is for a Hospitality & Events Sales Manager at the Alexandra Stadium.

The football club is looking to recruit a highly efficient and competent sales manager to drive the hospitality matchday, seasonal sales and venue hire business at this sporting event venue.

As this is an established venue you will also be responsible for managing the existing client relationships, maintaining strong relations, ensuring regular contact and in turn driving repeat business, both in terms of matchday hospitality customers as well as venue and event clients.

The club says it is looking for someone to take the venue forward, creating new relationships, generating enquiries and building up a local network of new corporate clients.

Key duties are

• To proactively source new business in conference and event sales, as well as matchday hospitality
• Build strong relationships and develop new client accounts
• Manage events booking diary for function hire
• Manage the delivery of in house club events, such as Christmas party nights
• Maintain strong working relationships with matchday hospitality customers
• Work with both corporate clients and agencies to deliver new business
• Produce and deliver high value proposals at a senior level to potential clients
• Achieve KPI's as set and agreed with commercial manager
• Work as a team player with all departments
• Ensure all leads and activities are continuously followed up to maximise revenue conversion
• To demonstrate the ability to negotiate rates and secure business, by understanding the needs of the customer and deliver them in a commercial and practical manner
• Matchday and event working, which will be agreed in advance

For this role you will need:

• A minimum of two years' experience in a sales or account management environment ideally in the venue sales or hospitality industry
• Proven experience of meeting and exceeding targets and KPIs
• Resilient mindset
• Ability to build strong and long-lasting relationships
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal
• A self-motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to work flexibly with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Outgoing personality, with an interest in hospitality and a desire to progress within the events and stadia industry

Salary: Dependent on experience + highly incentivised sales commission + benefits