Sales & Marketing Executive - Travel & Challenges for Charities

Sales & Marketing Executive - Travel & Challenges for Charities
Rickmansworth, Herts + Attend Events e.g. London Nightrider.
£25,000 - £28,000 (DOE)

Start date: 8 July 2019 - 12 month contract - Full or Part Time

Celebrating £100 million raised for charity!

We have been leading the way in charity challenges since we originated the concept in 1992. Since then more than £100 million has been raised for hundreds of charities. 65,000 people have cycled, trekked, run, climbed mountains and ridden horses to all corners of the globe while taking part in one of our charity challenge events.

The Sales & Marketing Executive:

The role of the Sales & Marketing Executive is to enhance the overall business development in supporting the business strategy of the company and implementing the marketing strategy throughout the business. As Sales & Marketing Executive you'll wok alongside the Managing Director, and all Managers, in delivering the company’s business strategy and implementing a marketing strategy throughout the business. 

Specific Duties:

Marketing:

Responsible for the marketing strategy for inclusion in the business strategy, to include duties such as:

+ Design / create / collate information new marketing materials eg. case studies, itineraries etc.
+ Manage external marketing suppliers
+ Update the open challenges and overall challenge brochures for Classic Challenge events
+ Support all the Managers in all aspects of marketing their projects and assisting their clients
+ Responsible of sourcing content for website, social media, eshot, and ensure brand guidelines and company brand is correct
+ Market the business to the identified segments
+ Plan and implement the marketing strategy for Pedal4Cancer

Sales & Business Development:

+ Identify new leads through research and targeting through telephone and email
+ Re-introduction and identify new charities to work with
+ Identify and manage the corporate email list
+ Create bid documents and quotes
+ Attend trade shows for networking opportunities where necessary 
+ Manage our Open Challenges
+ Maintain, follow up and convert target to sales / pipeline document
+ Manage the Classic Dashboard (BDM page) and ensure mass participation event information is fed in alongside the BDM information and statistics 
+ Work with Nightrider Manager to co-ordinate information for charity leads
+ Contact key charity targets on telephone or via email and collate information and prepare proposals for gaps in events
+ Contact the corporate fundraising teams to establish links through the charities to their corporate partners

The role may also require you to undertake any other office or tour related function on an ad-hoc basis. Cover for other staff when on annual leave. Attend events as staff where required / possible, including London Nightrider. 

About You:

+ Self-motivated, friendly, confident individual with mature outlook
+ Ability to multi-task and work as part of a team as well as on own initiative
+ Excellent organisational and time management skills
+ Ability to focus and prioritise, to work efficiently in a high-pressured environment, work to deadlines and have high attention to detail
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills; a positive telephone manner is essential
+ Strong administration skills in an office-based environment
+ Good numeracy skills
+ Minimum of 1 year working in a sales role
+ Experience of working in a marketing role
+ Computer skills – office based programmes
+ Sense of humour and love of cake

Desirable: 

+ Social media and marketing experience
+ Experience of working in similar industry
+ Experience of working in similar role
+ Computer skills – adobe programmes
+ Passion for travel and adventure
+ Office based experience in the charity, event and/or travel industry

Working hours:

Monday – Friday (Part time applicants will be considered)
Hours of work: 9am-5pm
Some evening and weekend work from time to time

You may have worked in the following capacities:
Travel Sales, Travel Marketing, Charity Sales, Charity Marketing, Fundraising.

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