Posted:
8/1/2024, 5:00:00 PM
Location(s):
England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Business Development Executive - Reuters Events
This is a full-time position based in London with hybrid working available.
Are you consultative? Want to grow your sales career whilst building partnerships with some of the world's leading brands? If so, this might be the role for you. We’re looking for a Business Development Executive to join Reuters Events, a fast-growing conferencing and events business within Thomson Reuters.
Reuters Events deliver world-class conferences and content-led events across the globe. We work with industry leaders and visionaries to provide the critical intelligence that their senior-level executives need to navigate change and great make strategic decisions.
Reuters Events combines Reuters' globally trusted brand, scale and editorial excellence with an exciting portfolio of B2B events. We provide content-led conferences for professionals in a variety of specialized industry sectors including energy, pharmaceutical, automotive, insurance, finance and legal (to name a few!) to complement our extensive, in-depth business media content. We exist to deliver strategic business intelligence and foster the relationships that safeguards success at leading organisations worldwide.
About the Role
As a Business Development Executive at Reuters Events you will:
Work collaboratively with other executives in your specific industry sector to sell tailored sponsorship packages to a variety of global brands.
Be consultative with your clients, offering the most appropriate solutions to suit their sponsorship needs. We don't need you to have sold sponsorships in the past and are instead looking for people who are eager to learn and develop their careers by working with some of the world's leading brand
Enjoy learning about new markets and staying up to date with industry trends (think current affairs, technological developments and changes across industries).
Work closely and collaborate with our Conference Production team to establish the best audiences and maximize the success of our conferences and events.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Business Development Executive, if you have:
Excellent communication skills. We're looking for someone who's comfortable representing the Reuters brand when engaging with other industry-leading businesses. You'll write engaging copy and will meet regularly with key decision makers at globally-renowned brands
Demonstrable B2B sales and new business development experience.
A collaborative attitude. We're team players at Reuters Events and are looking for someone who can succeed both individually and within a team-based environment.
The desire to progress and develop your skills further. We have an excellent (uncapped!) commission scheme that rewards your achievements and are keen to grow and invest in our sales team.
The ability to adapt to changes in markets and articulate potential solutions to a range of stakeholders over the phone, in person and on video calls.
Please Note: completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on Sunday 18th August 2024. Early applications are encouraged.
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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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