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About the role
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about sales? If so, you might be our next <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Account Associate"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14987,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16777215},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":14803425}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":2236962},"15":"inherit","16":11}">Account Executive.</span></span></p>
<h3><strong>About us</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private Equity Insights is the world's leading Private Equity community. We connect and develop more than 240,000 investment professionals across the world, through our platforms, which include conferences, webinars, magazines and news reports.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private Equity Insights is part of United Media (</span><a href="https://www.united-media.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.united-media.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one. </span></p>
<h3><strong>What we offer you</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As our <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Account Associate"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14987,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16777215},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":14803425}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":2236962},"15":"inherit","16":11}">Account Executive,</span> you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building the greatest brand within Private Equity. By providing you with the ownership of our sponsorship sales, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An opportunity for getting operational experience in a scale-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the business</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A chance to work closely together with CEO on our sales execution</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International travel to our conferences representing PEI. Continuing to create, establish and execute partnerships.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your responsibilities will vary; however, some of them will be to:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find, contact and set up meetings with potential sponsors</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sell, send proposal and close deals</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure we deliver the promised and agreed upon</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maintain and grow relationships with sponsors</span></li>
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<h3><strong>What we expect from you</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have acquired a bachelor or master's degree with outstanding results</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willing to work in a role within sponsorship sales, media sales, B2B or B2C sales</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have an UK work permit</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are an excellent communicator especially verbally</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Love to build and nurture relations</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have a natural ability to make people feel comfortable around you</span></li>
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<h3><strong>Startdate</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.</span></p>
Perks & benefits
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