Sales Manager

Salary: £30-35,000

Tyneside Cinema is looking for a new Sales Manager to support the cinema’s continued growth.

The Sales Manager will be responsible for selling the cinema’s services to multiple clients including venue hire, events, hospitality and corporate cinema packages.

Role details

• Full-time
• Permanent
• For full details, see Tyneside Cinema’s Jobs and Opportunities page

Role responsibilities

• To proactively introduce all the cinema’s services to prospective clients by direct selling activities.
• To support the CEO with their corporate engagement activities.
• To work with key intermediaries such Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, North East Chamber of Commerce, CBI and NE1.
• To proactively identify, contact and sell the cinema’s services to potential partners including venue hire for activities such as partner briefings, presentations and the use of our venues for corporate hospitality and staff welfare events, hospitality promotions and corporate cinema packages, including selling corporate Friends memberships and securing sponsorship deals for the cinema.
• To proactively drive business through arranging internal or external corporate events.
• To attend appropriate external corporate events including local networking events.
• To establish partnerships with local organisations.
• To develop and maintain an online customer relationship management (CRM) system.
• To put together sales plans for all activities.
• To liaise with the Marketing team to develop and maintain marketing and promotional materials including for social media.
• To review the company’s web presence via third party websites ensuring that reviews and details are monitored and updated accordingly.
• To be aware of local events/awards that the cinema could be involved in.
• To attend business development meetings.
• To complete monthly reports detailing activities undertaken, sales leads and concluded contracts.
• To build and maintain relationships with local businesses and corporate organisations.
• To develop and manage the reservations system in conjunction with the events team ensuring that all staff using the system are trained in its operation and to keep the system as “clean” as possible.

Person specifications

• Excellent sales skills
• An existing network of existing clients and intermediaries would be desirable, but is not an absolute prerequisite for the job
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong networking skills to build relationships with prospective and existing clients
• Experience of e-mail and social media campaigns to support sales activities
• Adept at using Customer Relationship
• Management (CRM) tools and data
• In-depth knowledge of sales strategies and sales reports

How to apply

To find out more and apply, go to Tyneside Cinema’s Jobs and Opportunities page

The closing date for this position is 09/12/2024 at 17:00