Corporate Sales & Events Manager

Big Belly Bar & Comedy Club – London Southbank

Help us build a £1m+ corporate events business.

Big Belly is an award-winning independent comedy, entertainment and events venue on London’s Southbank.

Following a major expansion of the venue, we're looking for an ambitious Corporate Sales & Events Manager to take ownership of and significantly grow our corporate, private hire and business events division.

This isn't a role where you'll simply inherit a diary and process incoming enquiries.

You'll convert the inbound opportunities already coming into the business, but you'll also be expected to proactively develop new corporate accounts, build relationships, open doors and create a serious pipeline of new business.

In just 7 months of trading, our repeat corporate clients have already pushed us way ahead of our Year 1 targets. We're doubling down on outreach to hit £1M+ annually and we need an ambitious candidate to help capture this demand and own the sales pipeline.

For the right person, there's an opportunity to help build this into a £1m+ annual corporate events business — and our uncapped commission structure is designed to reward you as it grows.

WHAT YOU'LL BE SELLING

Big Belly is a flexible multi-room venue capable of hosting everything from a £300 team drinks booking through to major corporate events for 450+ guests.

Our corporate offering includes:

• Christmas & summer parties
• Team socials and work nights out
• Private venue and room hire
• Drinks receptions & networking events
• Awards and company celebrations
• Karaoke and entertainment packages
• DJs, AV and bespoke entertainment
• Daytime meetings and events

We're independent, which means you won't be restricted to selling from a rigid corporate brochure. We want someone who can listen to what clients need and work with us to create packages that sell.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

You'll be responsible for the corporate sales journey from prospecting and initial enquiry through to confirmed booking and repeat business.

That includes:

• Converting inbound corporate and private-hire enquiries
• Proactively prospecting new corporate clients
• Building relationships with EAs, PAs, Office Managers, HR and People teams
• Developing relationships with event agencies and professional bookers
• Conducting venue tours and client meetings
• Creating proposals and commercial packages
• Negotiating and closing bookings
• Growing existing accounts and securing repeat business
• Increasing average booking values through relevant upselling
• Maintaining a strong CRM and qualified future pipeline
• Reporting on pipeline, conversion and confirmed revenue
• Working closely with operations to ensure what we sell can be delivered brilliantly

• Commercial Focus: Your primary job is pipeline generation, closing deals, and long-term account management. You sell the vision; our dedicated operational team delivers the event on the night.
• Seamless Handovers: You’ll lead clear, structured event briefings to operations, ensuring client expectations are met and every event is executed flawlessly.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're particularly interested in people with a proven sales background across:

• Event agencies

You should be commercially minded, comfortable prospecting and confident closing significant bookings.

You’ll ideally have an existing understanding of the London corporate events market and how EAs, workplace teams, event planners and agencies buy events.

An established London corporate network would be a major advantage.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who is entrepreneurial, proactive and genuinely motivated by building revenue.

THE PACKAGE

£40,000–£45,000 basic salary depending on experience and track record.

Plus a genuinely performance-led uncapped commission structure.

Our aim is to create a package where your earnings grow materially alongside the business you build.

Uncapped beyond this

If you can help us build a £1m+ corporate events division, we want you to share meaningfully in that success.

Tiered commission structure paying out on both new business generated and high-value account repeat bookings.

WHY BIG BELLY?

We're not a large hotel group or corporate venue operator.

We're independent, ambitious and able to move quickly.

Big Belly brings together comedy, bars, food, DJs, karaoke, private spaces and live entertainment in one Southbank venue.

You’ll have the autonomy to shape our corporate proposition, develop new packages, build relationships and have a genuine impact on how this side of the business develops.

For someone who wants ownership rather than simply another sales job, there's a significant opportunity here.