Contract position: May till October 2024
We are open to candidates who are based remotely within ASEAN.
Clarion Events Asia is looking for a professional and personable Delegate Sales Executive to be part of the leading regional event, Enlit Asia, which focuses on the power & energy sector. This is an excellent opportunity for an exceptional Business Events professional to join a highly successful, award winning, international company that organizes essential B2B events for a range of clients across the world. We work closely with leading industry executives to organise high level events.
About Enlit Asia
Enlit Asia is an annual conference and exhibition that unifies two major events in the power and energy sector - POWERGEN Asia and Asian Utility Week.
The event is a platform for leading industry providers to showcase innovative solutions, services, and products in line with the Asian strategy to transition to a low-carbon energy supply. Through its Summit, Enlit Asia also delivers expert knowledge and foresight from the region's power and energy thought leaders on key developments, policies and innovations that are driving the energy transition.
It brings together the entire value chain of both power and utility producers and suppliers, covering content and exhibits from source to generation and from grid to consumer.
The Role
As a Delegate Sales at Enlit Asia, you will play a crucial role in expanding our sales reach and driving new business opportunities. You will be the “front-face” for all conference delegates. You will sell delegate tickets as part of your key KPI. This role will require an understanding of content, basic industry knowledge of the power & energy value chain and direct selling skills to acquire paying attendees to our events.
If you are personable, have a dynamic disposition, a keen learner and are confident speaking with senior executives over the phone, this is a role for you!
Job specifications
- To sell delegate tickets to attend the conference
- To be the main point of contact onsite for paid delegate attendees
- To co-ordinate and manage meetings for sponsors and exhibitors
- To secure high-level attendees for workshops, private luncheons, roundtables etc.
- To provide sponsors and attendees with a truly great experience pre and during the conference and to provide a fantastic service element to the networking process
Key Requirements
- Diploma or degree qualified
- Great attitude to learning
- Previous delegate sales or customer experience a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident in speaking with C-level executives
- Not afraid of cold calling via phone and making new connections
- Strong relationship building, stakeholder management and social media skills to ensure customer satisfaction
- Performance driven, possessing exceptional interpersonal qualities and able to work alone (self-motivate) and in a team
- Dependable – takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments
- Able to work with tight deadlines, manage time and balance tasks
Clarion Events organises more than 200 events (a mixture of exhibitions, conferences and seated events) annually across the globe. More than 12,000 companies trust us with their custom each year and over 700,000 people give their valuable time to visit our events. This success has come from identifying high-value, niche audiences in difficult-to-reach markets and then building them into market-leading products. We have over 500 people working directly for Clarion Events from 13 offices in 10 different countries, including Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore, China, South Africa, Turkey, UAE, UK, and USA.
