At a Glance
- Tasks: Engage with customers and support live event campaigns to boost brand awareness.
- Company: Join River, a dynamic company expanding in South London with a vibrant team culture.
- Benefits: Base pay plus commission, full training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Opportunities for career growth into leadership and various business areas.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on experience in sales and marketing while making real connections with people.
- Qualifications: No prior experience needed; just bring your confidence and willingness to learn.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 30000 £ per year.
River is growing, and our move into a bright new South London office marks an exciting next step in our journey. We're looking for ambitious, confident, and motivated people to join our Sales & Marketing team as we continue expanding our live event campaigns across the UK.
This is a hands-on role where you'll gain practical experience in customer engagement, brand representation, sales, marketing, and campaign delivery. You'll be working directly with the public at event locations, helping our clients increase brand awareness, build customer relationships, and create memorable face-to-face experiences.
No previous sales or marketing experience is required. We provide full training, ongoing mentorship, and development opportunities for people who are ready to learn, grow, and take ownership of their progression. We work with well-known UK clients, helping them connect with customers through professional, engaging, and high-energy brand representation.
Our focus is simple: create strong customer experiences, deliver results for our clients, and develop people from within. Our new London office gives us the space to grow, train, collaborate, and build the next phase of River.
The Role
As a Sales & Marketing Assistant, you'll support the delivery of client campaigns across pop-up events and promotional spaces. You'll be involved in customer conversations, brand awareness, campaign activity, and sales support. You'll also receive coaching in communication, customer behaviour, sales strategy, leadership, and campaign performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent client brands professionally at live event campaigns
- Engage with customers in a confident, friendly, and informative way
- Share key information about our clients' products, services, campaigns, and values
- Support the set-up and organisation of event spaces
- Help increase brand awareness through positive face-to-face interactions
- Work with the team to achieve campaign goals and customer engagement targets
- Attend training sessions, meetings, and development workshops
- Learn practical sales, marketing, and customer acquisition skills
- Shadow experienced team members to understand leadership, campaign coordination, and performance management
- Contribute ideas and feedback to help improve campaign delivery
Requirements
- Confident and comfortable speaking with new people
- Positive, professional, and self-motivated
- Open to learning, coaching, and constructive feedback
- Able to adapt in a fast-paced event environment
- Goal-focused and willing to take ownership of your development
- A strong communicator with good interpersonal skills
- Organised, reliable, and proactive
- Able to work well as part of a team
- Interested in sales, marketing, events, business development, or leadership
- Previous experience in sales, customer service, hospitality, retail, promotions, events, or marketing can be useful, but it is not required.
What River Offers
- Base pay plus performance-based commission
- Full training and mentorship from day one
- A clear development path based on performance and growth
- Hands-on experience in sales, marketing, events, and customer engagement
- Training in communication, customer behaviour, brand representation, and campaign delivery
- A bright new London office environment
- Professional development workshops and networking opportunities
- Optional team nights, travel opportunities, holidays, and city breaks
- Performance-based incentives
- A supportive team culture where effort, progress, and ideas are recognised
As you develop, there may be opportunities to progress into wider areas of the business, including team leadership, campaign coordination, recruitment, client liaison, marketing, social media, and operations. Your development will be based on consistency, performance, attitude, and your ability to take on responsibility. We're looking for people who want to grow with us as we build the next stage of River from our new London office.
Full-time and part-time available. Work style: No previous experience needed. Training: Full training provided. Pay structure: Base pay plus performance-based commission.
Sales And Marketing Assistant- (Graduates) employer: River NW LTD
River is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture in our new South London office where ambitious individuals can thrive. With full training and mentorship provided, employees have the opportunity to develop their skills in sales and marketing while engaging directly with customers at exciting live events. Our focus on personal growth, team collaboration, and recognition of effort makes River a rewarding place to build a meaningful career.
