Sales Executive

Full-time, hybrid (3 days office-based, 2 days wfh)
Twickenham TW1 3QS

As a Sales Executive working on our Lab Innovations event, you'll be responsible for identifying potential exhibitors, building relationships with prospective customers, and helping drive sales growth across our event portfolio.

This role would suit someone who is naturally competitive, enjoys speaking with people, and isn't afraid to pick up the phone and create opportunities. We're looking for someone with a hunter mentality who is eager to learn and develop a successful career in sales.

• Proactively contact prospective customers through cold calling.

• Sell exhibition space and sponsorship opportunities across our events portfolio.

• Build relationships with existing and potential exhibitors.

• Achieve individual sales targets and KPIs.

• Keep records up to date and manage sales activity effectively.

• Attend industry events where required.

• 1–2+ years' experience in a sales, recruitment, customer-facing, or business development role.

• Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills.

• Motivated by targets, incentives, and achieving results.

• Resilient, driven, and comfortable with outbound prospecting.

• Positive attitude and willingness to learn.

• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

• Experience with in exhibitions, events, conferences, or media sales.

• Experience working towards targets or KPIs.

• Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce.

• Competitive salary and uncapped commission structure.

• Clear career progression opportunities.

• Comprehensive sales training and development.

• International business with a collaborative culture.

• Opportunity to work on market-leading exhibitions and events.

About Us 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 900 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 11th in the 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 're looking for, 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.

If you're hungry to succeed, enjoy building relationships, and want to develop your career in sales, we'd love to hear from you.