Sales and Marketing Manager in London

At Vacherin we celebrate diversity and embrace individuality. We genuinely like the people we work with, and love coming together to reset, refresh and have fun. We empower our people through togetherness, giving them the chance to shine and unlock their potential, which fuels our strength and growth.

Are you passionate about food, drink and service? Do you 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 8QT

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, responsible for sales projects involving both proactive and reactive selling.
• Manage 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.
• Create packages for various customer groups and ensure appropriate marketing campaigns are delivered for maximum business gain.
• Update the website daily to ensure visual appearance and content represent the quality of events sold and delivered.
• Oversee all social media accounts including Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Yapster and Facebook, ensuring daily updates with appropriate sales and reputation-driven content.
• Organise and host various client familiarisation events to create new business.
• Manage the marketing budget to ensure maximum return on investment.
• Report on figures and sales marketing activities at the end of each month.
• Chair monthly marketing meetings to ensure strategic marketing plans are achieved with minimal effect to the marketing budget.
• Utilise the site's events software - Rendezvous; contact prospective customers by the appropriate method and handle incoming enquiries to the agreed standard (telephone, mail, letter).
• Have excellent knowledge of the site, its capacities, unique selling points and 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, having worked with colleges and venues.
• Events sales with marketing knowledge.
• Flexible and approachable.

What's in it for you?

• 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.