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Sales Coordinator

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Job Introduction

Sodexo are sourcing a Sales Coordinator to drive the conversion of new and repeat conference & events business at St. James’ Park, home of Newcastle United Football Club.

This prestigious venue holds wide a range of amazing events. Your role will be to drive sales whilst managing client great relationships and nurturing new ones. This is a rare opportunity to join a global business within a successful team and benefit from a defined career path.

Our heritage is built on catering and hospitality experience and fuelled by our passion for exceptional food and service. For over 40 years we have been providing bespoke catering and hospitality services for sports stadia, racecourses, visitor, attractions, historic venues, major events and premium airline lounges. Recognised across the globe for hospitality, we help create exceptional moments at extraordinary events such as Royal Ascot, Tour de France and RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

For more information on the company see Careers in Sports and Leisure

 

Role Responsibility

Working with the Sales Manager and wider team, you will create and execute sales activities to drive business growth, proactively searching for new clients and development existing relationships. This is a hands-on role, where you will be converting bookings, following up leads, showing customers around the site and helping them plan their events.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Great customer service skills
  • A skilled researcher and negotiator
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Charismatic, bursting with energy and hungry for winning new business
  • Organised, determined and passionate about delivering amazing events

Package Description

£19,000 - £21,000 + highly attractive sales bonus scheme

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

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