Do you have sales skills with an ability to build good working relationships? Are you interested in working in distinctive and truly remarkable settings?
About us
Science Museum Group's Enterprises is an integral, profit-making function, allowing our museums to keep our collections accessible whilst investing in our cultural offer and customer experience. The Events team support with promoting our spaces and running amazing events, ranging from conferences, product launches, dinners, receptions, Christmas parties and private events.
To support the Events team across our Northern museums, we are now seeking an Events Sales and Marketing Executive to join us on a full-time permanent basis, based in any of our museums located in Manchester, York, Shildon or Bradford.
Please note - due to the nature of this role, some travel across all our Northern sites is an expectation.
About the role
The Events Sales and Marketing Executive role will cover a wide range of responsibilities, from promoting our museums to confirming the event. You will be the first point of contact for any new and existing clients wishing to host an event with us, responding to queries as they come in, and supplying the client with a bespoke proposal based on their event brief. You will conduct site visits with the client and contractors, and will account manage your clients to increase repeat bookings. You will also manage administrative tasks such as raising invoices, purchase orders and creating contracts for confirmed bookings, ensuring that all financial information relating to events is recorded accurately.
Download the Vacancy Information Pack file under 'Attachments' on this vacancy listing on the Science Museum Group website for more details about the role and the application process.
About you
Joining us, you will bring reactive sales experience, along with some exposure to the events industry. You'll hold good networking and communication skills with an ability to build and maintain relationships with a diverse range of people, and private and corporate clients on all levels.
Don't feel you meet all the criteria? We welcome you to apply even if your experience doesn't match directly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
- Support with personal and professional development
- 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced contributory pension
- Unmind App and other wellbeing support
- Interest-free loans
- Days Out discounts
- Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to develop a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.
