Senior Sales Executive

• Hybrid - Twickenham, SW London (TW1 3QS).

As a Senior Sales Executive working on our CHEMUK event, you'll be responsible for contributing towards the success of our growing portfolio with a particular focus on the established UK edition. The event has successfully run since 2019 in the UK and the event is also launching in Lyon, France. You will be identifying potential exhibitors, building relationships with prospective customers, and helping drive sales growth across our event portfolio.

Senior Sales Executive – Key Responsibilities

1. Develop strong market knowledge early, including key sectors, competitors, trends, and growth opportunities.

2. Build and maintain long-term, sustainable relationships with exhibitors and customers.

3. Create and regularly update Sector Coverage Analysis (SCA) to identify market gaps and opportunities.

4. Identify and propose new features, zones, pavilions, and commercial opportunities to support revenue growth.

5. Become highly proficient in Easyfairs processes, systems, and internal ways of working.

6. Deliver against sales targets, KPIs, and Critical Sales Path (CSP) objectives.

7. Work collaboratively with the Event Manager to support and shape the event’s commercial strategy.

8. Foster strong account relationships to encourage repeat business and account growth.

9. Lead by example in sales performance, KPI achievement, and overall commercial delivery.

10. Support Sales Executives where needed to help achieve team KPIs and revenue targets.

11. Proactively identify and develop new exhibitor leads and business opportunities.

12. Contribute ideas and input into event promotional content and exhibitor marketing initiatives.

13. Produce accurate weekly sales reports, pipeline updates, and performance insights.

Experience & Skills Required

1. Minimum 3+ years’ experience in B2B sector, ideally in exhibitions in a senior sales executive, account management, or commercial sales role.

2. Proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets and KPIs.

3. Strong relationship-building and account management skills.

4. Commercially minded with the ability to spot growth opportunities and drive revenue.

5. Excellent communication, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.

6. Ability to work collaboratively within a fast-paced event environment.

7. Proactive, self-motivated, and results driven.

Preferred Criteria / Nice to Have

1. Experience selling into the chemicals/ industrial sectors.

2. Strong understanding of emerging trends in the sector.

Career Progression

As the portfolio continues to expand, there will be strong opportunities for future career development and progression within the business. For high performers, this could include progression into more senior commercial or event leadership roles over time, supporting the continued growth of the brand across new markets and territories.

Who are we?
Easyfairs is a global event company based in Europe and the USA. We organise and host more than 200 events across the world (Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA) and we manage eight venues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. Our passion is to bring business communities and communities of interest together. We strive to “easify” the life of our customers and increase the return on their investment of time and money through all-in formulas, advanced technology and a customer-centric approach. The Easyfairs Group employs over 1000 highly committed talents. Our commitment to excellence has been recognised several times. We were named Belgium’s “Entrepreneur of the Year®” in 2018 and Deloitte has named us a “Best Managed Company” seven years running (2019-25). The company is ranked 14th in the Stax list of the world’s leading exhibition companies. We are also proud of being on the "Sunday Times Best Place to Work" list in 2025 & 2026!

Benefits:

🎂 Birthday Day off

🏡 Flexible working as well as hybrid working

👶 Enhanced family pay (maternity & paternity)

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

🚂 Interest free travel loans

📚 Free online academy to focus on professional development and upskilling

🧠 Specialist external performance coach services available to all employees

🤝 Employee assistance programme

👩‍⚕️ 24/7 access to our virtual GP service

🏆 Long service awards

💰 Pension as well as offering salary sacrifice

👪 Life cover

🔒 Group income protection

🍾 Fully stocked beer & wine fridge in the office

🎉 Regular company socials organised throughout the year

We understand that applicants can be put off applying for a job if they feel they don't fit all of the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills/ experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply! Here at Easyfairs, we are passionate about the power of fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for our team to thrive in. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.