Sales Executive - The ACC Liverpool Group : Job Details

Sales Executive - Entertainment & Sport

The ACC Liverpool Group operates the city's waterfront event campus – the interconnected M&S Bank Arena, ACC Liverpool, and Exhibition Centre Liverpool as well as ticketing agency Ticket Quarter and the Pullman Liverpool Hotel.

The M&S Bank Arena is the city’s largest entertainment venue, playing a leading role in bringing high quality music, sport, and comedy (amongst other things) to the people of Liverpool. We have successfully staged a wide array of sporting events attracting local, regional, national, and international audiences such as the World Gymnastics Championships 2022, the Netball World Cup in 2019 and the Bet MGM Premier League Darts. We’ve hosted some of the biggest names in entertainment, such as Beyonce, Elton John, Dua Lipa and Kylie. Last year, we provided a home for the Eurovision Song Contest, turning the arena into a spectacular TV studio beamed to 160 million people around the world.

We are looking for a talented and motivated Sales Executive to work with us to attract the best sport and entertainment shows to Liverpool. You will be passionate about the city, and excited about sport and entertainment and its potential to play a crucial role in the city’s success. Ambitious and tenacious, the successful candidate will have experience working with promoters to create mutually beneficial opportunities, with a people-focused approach to account management.

The ideal candidate will have experience in working in a fast-paced sales and/or account management environment and will be confident dealing with high profile clients and event organisers. With strong communication and persuasion skills you will be able to negotiate venue packages, possess knowledge of CRM systems and be capable of preparing accurate, detailed venue proposal documentation.

This is a rare opportunity for someone to work in a dynamic and exciting industry within an organisation with purpose and drive.

The candidate will need to be enthusiastic, like minded and complement our small but experienced and talented team. If you have drive, passion, ambition and wish to play a part in The ACC Liverpool Group’s continuing success story this could be just the job for you.

Company Benefits

We are an award-winning, world-class venue and our people are at the heart of everything that we do. Recognition and reward are of huge importance to us at the ACC Liverpool Group, and just some of the benefits staff can enjoy include:

• An enhanced holiday scheme, which increases with length of service.
• An excellent local government pension scheme, where by employer contribution is currently set at 14%.
• Access to a premium health care policy, which includes an employee assistant line, contributions towards a wide range of medical costs, such as dental and optical and staff discounts.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• An excellent sickness pay scheme.
• Free onsite parking right in the heart of the city centre.
• Agile working and flexitime policies, where appropriate and in line with business needs.
• A dedicated wellbeing strategy to support staff when at work.

Closing Date: 2 May 2024

Interview Date: TBC

Please note, we may close this vacancy before the stated closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the position.