Graduate Sales Executive, Reuters Events

Job Description

Are you ambitious and fearless? Do you want to help grow communities and learn how world markets and industries work, within a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? We’re looking for a Graduate Sales Executive to join Reuters Events , a fast-growing team within Reuters.

We’re looking for driven, organised, money orientated individual with a genuine interest in all things business. The ideal candidate will be someone who wants to learn as much as they can and progress into a career that reflects their strengths and interests in either sponsorship sales or conference production.

Established in 1990 as FCBI, Reuters Events was acquired by Reuters in 2019. We deliver world-class conferences and content across the globe, and work with industry leaders and visionaries to provide the critical intelligence senior level executives need to make strategic decisions.

Reuters Events brings together Reuters globally trusted brand, scale and editorial excellence aligned with domain expertise. We provide content-led conferences for professionals in highly specialized industry sectors to complement our extensive, in-depth content. Reuters Events exists to deliver the intelligence and foster the relationships that shape strategy and safeguard success at leading companies worldwide.

About the Role

As a Graduate Sales Executive, you will:

• Initially you’ll take a seat within a driven, highly motivated sales team and have a golden opportunity to learn the business from the ground up.
• You will sell delegate places to the hottest leads across a variety of industry events and receive commission for every single sale you make.
• Working as part of dedicated delegate sales team to hit and exceed revenue targets
• Using excellent customer service to qualify and nurture sales leads
• Closing individual and group delegate registrations for senior-level ‘business to business’ conferences worldwide
• Working in a targeted driven environment towards incentivised event-based and annual revenue targets
• Receive training on the sales techniques required to be a successful sales executive
• The potential to progress into a consultative business development role focusing on higher level exhibition and sponsorship packages OR into a conference production role looking at creating high end, commercially viable events where you will gain a wide range of transferrable skills

To be our Graduate Sales Executive , you will likely:

• Be motivated to work hard and carve out a successful career in sales or conferences
• Be motivated to progress quickly
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Be confident on the phone talking to senior level executives from major industries
• Be money-motivated with a determined outlook and a strong drive for results
• Have an entrepreneurial flair
• Have previous sales experience (not essential but it will be considered a plus)

Please note, the deadline for applications is Friday 2nd July 2021 at 11.59pm UK Time.

What’s in it For You

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career : As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
• Learning & Development : we have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our employees
• Benefits : we offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits
• Perks : Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com .