Sales and Marketing Manager in London

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Are you passionate about food, drink and service, want to be part of an award-winning hospitality team - and still make it home for dinner? We are looking for a Sales & Marketing Manager to join our amazing team at Royal College of Pathologists in London.

Location: E1 8QTS

Salary: £45,000 - £47,000 per annum plus performance related bonus

Working Pattern: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, working a mix of shifts between 8am to 4pm, 9am to 5pm and 10am to 6pm, flexibility is essential.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Sales and Business Development: Reporting to the general manager, you will be responsible for sales projects that involve both proactive and reactive selling.
• Managing a team of 4 and their training and development.
• Responsible for all email marketing activities including news stories, newsletters and blogging sent to the venue database.
• Regularly creating packages for our various customer groups and ensuring that an appropriate marketing campaign is delivered to ensure maximum business is gained.
• Updating the website daily to ensure the visual appearance and content is representative of the quality of events sold and delivered.
• Overseeing all social media accounts including Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Yapster and Facebook, ensuring that all platforms are updated daily with appropriate sales and reputation driven content.
• Organising and hosting various client familiarisation events in efforts to create new business.
• Managing the marketing budget to ensure maximum return on investment.
• Reporting back on figures and sales marketing activities at the end of each month.
• Chairing monthly marketing meetings to ensure our strategic marketing plan is being achieved with minimal effect to the marketing budget.
• Utilising the site's events software - Rendezvous; contacting prospective customers by the appropriate method, handling incoming enquiries to the agreed standard (telephone, mail, letter).
• Have excellent knowledge of the site, their capacities, unique selling points and their capabilities.
• Achieve higher average spend by effective use of upselling to each client.
• Assist in the organisation and running of promotional events including potential client hospitality activity.

Relationship Management:

• Communicate and provide information to internal departments and colleagues to assist and enable sales activities to run smoothly.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues and clients both internal and external.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Management experience who have worked with colleges and venues.
• Events sales with marketing knowledge.
• Be flexible and approachable.

What's in it for you?

Working with Vacherin has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Access to Healthcare Support App which includes Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy - including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers