Graduate sales executive

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with motivated and extremely driven people? Are you curious or passionate about creating events? If so, you might be our Graduate sales executive.

About us

"Private Equity Insights is the world’s leading Private Equity community. We connect and develop more than 240,000 investment professionals across the world, through our platforms, which include conferences, webinars, magazines and news reports.

For more than 10 years, PEI has helped Investors, Fund Managers and CXOs rethink what it takes to fundraise, invest, operate and exit in Private Equity, and does so via online engagement and cutting edge conferences in Singapore, UK, France, Poland & CEE, Benelux, Switzerland, Iberia, Germany, Italy, Nordics and DACH."

Private Equity Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Graduate sales executive, you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building the greatest global conferences by providing you with exceptional training and products. We want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• A competitive salary and generous OTE
• An opportunity for getting operational experience in a scale-up business where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the businesses
• A chance to work closely together with our leadership team on conference strategies
• Unlimited growth potential in our group - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally

Your Responsibilities

Your mission would be towork closely with our lead generation and senior sales team to generate meetings for our global partnerships managers. In order to be successful, your main duties will include:

• Meeting booking: Work with a team of analysts to both review potential leads and set up meetings for our sales team. You are expected to use a range of outreach methods (phone, email, LinkedIn etc) in order to set meetings with quality prospects
• Expertise Development: Over time, hone your expertise in generating new business meetings with senior prospects, becoming an essential part of our growth journey
• Sales Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with our sales representatives, helping them fill their diaries and grow our impressive sponsor roster globally

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you can demonstrate:

• Sales passion: Have a relentless drive and desire to work in an outbound sales role with a view to rapidly progressing your career with us
• Target driven: Have worked in a fast-paced commercial environment and enjoy meeting targets
• Team Spirit: Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations
• Communication Maestro: Showcase stellar verbal and written communication skills

Startdate

Flexible, Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work. You must have a UK work permit.