# Graduate Sponsorship Sales Executive

**Company**: Argus Media
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales

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## Description

Ambitious graduate? Join our sponsorship sales team and learn how to sell high-value event partnerships, build relationships with senior leaders, and accelerate your commercial career.

The Argus Media Conferences division works closely with price reporting teams to deliver market-leading B2B conferences and networking events across the global commodities industry. These events cover specialist sectors including crude oil, refined products, LPG, chemicals, fertilizers, metals, and energy transition markets.

As a Graduate Sponsorship Sales Executive, you will support the growth of sponsorship and exhibition revenue across a portfolio of industry-leading conferences. You will learn how to identify prospective sponsors, build relationships with key decision-makers, understand client requirements, and sell sponsorship packages that help organisations achieve their business objectives.

**Responsibilities:**

- Researching companies and identifying potential sponsors for conferences and events

- Building relationships with prospective and existing clients via phone, email, and virtual meetings

- Supporting sponsorship sales activities to help achieve revenue targets

- Learning how to pitch sponsorship and exhibition opportunities to senior industry stakeholders

- Maintaining accurate sales pipeline and client records within CRM systems

- Assisting with proposal creation and client presentations

- Supporting negotiations and helping tailor sponsorship packages to client needs

- Working closely with colleagues globally to identify commercial opportunities

- Supporting marketing and promotional activities for events

- Attending conferences and assisting in delivering an excellent sponsor and exhibitor experience

- Developing an understanding of commodity markets and industry sectors covered by Argus Media

- Collaborating with editorial, production, and marketing teams to maximise event success

**Requirements:**

- Educated to degree level or graduating within the next 12 months

- Strong interest in sales, business development, or commercial careers

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Confident speaking with people and building relationships

- Highly motivated, ambitious, and target-driven

- Strong organisational and time management skills

- Able to work independently and as part of a team

- Good research and problem-solving skills

- Strong attention to detail

- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- sales
- business development
- organisational skills
- time management
- research
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- previous sales experience
- customer service experience
- fundraising experience
- retail experience
- hospitality experience
- business development experience
- target-driven
- additional language skills
- international travel

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