National Sales Manager - Sports & Students

£26,300

Stonegate Group is looking for a National Accounts Manager to join our Sales teams. As the UK's biggest pub group, we have a huge range of bars and pubs, with a strong focus on our student bars. As NSM for Sports and Students, you’ll focus on building sales channels that drive bookings around sporting events and student led sites. Using and growing our partnerships with booking agencies and third party resellers, the National Sales Manager for Sports and Students is a great role if you have a great track record of working with sports teams and student groups.

The role of National Sales Manager is a network-driven role that requires excellent relationship building and account management skills, a deep understanding of the sales strategy and an ability to develop and actualise a systematic approach to maximising opportunities within a Sport and Student environment.

Key responsibilities of a National Sales Manager:

Account Management

• Keeping in constant contact with all Sport and Student partners to fully understand their requirement, while demonstrating the value and benefits of all our available venues.
• Deal with all enquiries and questions within a maximum of 2 hours.
• Update listing information as required.
• Arrange and manage quarterly face-to-face meeting to nurture relationships.

• Work with Operational and Marketing colleagues on account requirements.

Reporting

• Follow and implement regular business updates including marketing briefs, operational changes, business processes and key focus areas.
• Weekly communication on sales performance against budget and reporting on variances. In addition to this you may be required to complete weekly and period forecasting, as requested.
• Drive the pipeline of sales through relationship building.
• Be aware of digital campaigns and engage with any booking leads on the back of centrally driven campaigns.
• Write proposals based on account needs.

Salary is up to £26,300 (depending on your experience), annual bonus scheme, 25 days holiday annual leave plus bank holidays, plus annual purchase scheme, Vitality healthcare, dental and life insurance, a discount card to use in our sites and a range of other high street discounts. We also have a comprehensive career pathway for our teams with excellent learning and development opportunities.

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