Sales Manager
Listed on 2026-09-14
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Sales
B2B Sales, Business Development, Sales Manager
We’re Hiring:
Senior Sales Manager – Exhibitions, Events & Brand Experience
Employment Type:
Full-Time
Availability:
Immediate Joining / Short Notice Required
Build Up is looking for a highly experienced Senior Sales Manager with a strong commercial background in the exhibitions, events, conferences, experiential marketing, brand experience, and exhibition design & build industry
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The ideal candidate will have extensive experience developing business with government entities, semi-government organizations, major corporations, agencies, and institutional clients across Saudi Arabia.
This is a senior, hands-on commercial role focused on new business generation, client acquisition, revenue growth, strategic account development, tenders, and closing major projects
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We are looking for a proven sales hunter who can identify opportunities, open new accounts, build strong client relationships, and convert opportunities into awarded projects.
Key Responsibilities- Generate new business and acquire major clients across Saudi Arabia .
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with government and semi-government entities, ministries, authorities, major corporations, agencies, and key decision-makers
. - Exhibitions and exhibition stands
- Events and conferences
- Brand experiences
- Experiential activations
- Integrated event production solutions
- Build and manage a strong commercial pipeline.
- Identify upcoming RFPs, RFQs, tenders, framework agreements, and strategic business opportunities
. - Lead client meetings, presentations, pitches, proposals, and commercial negotiations.
- Coordinate closely with Creative, Design, Estimation, Production, and Operations teams to develop competitive proposals.
- Negotiate commercial terms and successfully close major contracts.
- Take ownership of sales targets, revenue growth, and new client acquisition.
- Maintain strong market intelligence across Saudi Arabia exhibition and events sectors.
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant sales, business development, or commercial experience within the exhibitions, events, conferences, experiential, or brand experience industry.
- Strong and recent industry experience across exhibitions, events, conferences, experiential activations, and brand experiences
. - Proven experience working directly with government and semi-government entities in Saudi Arabia.
- Demonstrated track record of personally generating new business, winning new clients, building commercial pipelines, and closing major projects
. - Strong knowledge of RFPs, tenders, commercial proposals, presentations, negotiations, and contract awards
. - Strong understanding of exhibition stands, pavilions, event production, experiential activations, brand experiences, and turnkey design & build projects.
- Strong Saudi Arabia market knowledge and client network.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
- Ability to engage confidently with senior government representatives, executives, procurement teams, marketing teams, agencies, and key decision-makers.
- Must be available to join immediately or within a very short notice period.
- Strong background with established exhibition, event, experiential, conference, or brand experience companies in Saudi Arabia.
- Proven success developing and winning business with government ministries, authorities, semi-government entities, major national organizations, and large corporations
. - Established network of clients and key decision-makers within Saudi Arabia.
- Demonstrated success in winning large-scale exhibitions, events, conferences, pavilions, experiential activations, and brand experience projects
. - Strong commercial mindset with a proven record of revenue growth, new business generation, and major account acquisition
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