Venue Sales Manager.

Senior Venue Sales Manager

📍 Southwark, London (5 days onsite)
💰 £50,000 base + 10% annual bonus
💸 2% commission on GP once target achieved

About the Venue

We operate one of London's most recognised large-scale event venues, delivering high-profile corporate conferences, award shows, brand launches, PR events, immersive experiences, private celebrations and business events.

The venue includes multiple flexible event spaces with capacity for up to 1,000 guests.

This role focuses exclusively on corporate and private venue sales (not ticketed club events).

The Role

We are hiring a proactive and commercially focused Senior Venue Sales Manager to drive corporate event revenue across our venue portfolio.

This is a hands-on B2B sales role, focused on:

• Generating new corporate business

• Targeting 15-20 prospective accounts per week

• Converting inbound and outbound opportunities

• Building tailored event packages from scratch

• Selling conferences, brand launches, award shows and corporate parties

You will work closely with the in-house events operations team to ensure seamless delivery from contract to event execution.

This is a standalone senior sales role with no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and win new corporate clients

• Develop a strong outbound pipeline

• Manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to close

• Build bespoke proposals and negotiate contracts

• Meet monthly and quarterly gross profit targets

• Maintain long-term client relationships

• Collaborate with operations to deliver exceptional events

Team revenue target: £2M
Typical event value: £10k+ packages

About You

You will have:

• 3-12 years' experience in venue, hospitality, or corporate event sales

• A strong corporate client database / "black book"

• Experience selling large-scale conferences and corporate events

• A proven track record of meeting or exceeding revenue targets

• Confidence in proactive outbound business development

• Stable career history

Experience from major London venues, large conference spaces, hotels with event facilities, or established venue groups is highly desirable.

Benefits

• 23 days annual leave

• 10% annual bonus

• Commission structure

• Free breakfast & lunch (in-house chef)

• Free gym membership & fitness classes

• Private GP & prescription service

• Life assurance & wellbeing support

• Dog-friendly office

• Birthday off

• Travel & cycle schemes

• Access to exclusive venue events

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