Delegate Sales
The Delegate Sales team is responsible for engaging professionals across a range of industries and securing high-quality attendees for Hanson Wade Group events. Team members develop strong communication and relationship-building skills while promoting the value of our events, gathering market feedback, and gaining first-hand insight into key industry sectors. This role offers graduates a fast-paced, commercial environment with excellent opportunities to build confidence, industry knowledge, and a foundation in sales and business development.
Our job roles: Find your fit
Sales Executive
Responsible for selling to senior leaders across the pharma and biotech industries to curate high-quality audiences for our world-class events. The role involves engaging customers to understand their objectives and delivering value-led solutions to meet their goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional project teams to share market insights and feedback, while meeting activity metrics, managing pipeline reporting, and achieving monthly sales targets.
Senior Sales Executive
The core responsibilities of delivering high value audiences to our events will remain central to the role. At this level we expect a stronger competency in sales theory and sales skill, in turn leading to higher revenue performance. You will have built subject specific industry knowledge that will allow you to have in depth conversation with the market and deliver quality insight to your project team. You will be responsible for hitting activity metrics, reporting on pipeline and achieving monthly sales targets.
Team Leader
Having a proven track record in selling across multiple event products, this role allows you to build a team to share your knowledge. You will still hold a personal revenue target but will also hold management responsibilities. Using your experience in selling, you will coach, train, mentor and performance manage a small team.
Sales Manager
A non-selling manager that has a larger team of sales reps or a combination of salespeople and team leaders. Having a proven track record in managing people and progressing their skill set, you will be responsible for building out our sales teams. People progression will be central to your role, executing sales theory training sessions for the department and on a one-to-one basis. You will be having ownership over a large annual revenue number and accountability to deliver against that.
What we look for:
- You’ll have achieved a 2:1 degree or above
- You’ll aim to beat any target set and want to develop yourself professionally
- Hard-working nature and ambition
- You’ll thrive in a commercial environment
- Ability to think quickly under pressure
- You’ll be eager to learn
- Confidence when speaking to C-Level executives
- Eligibility to Work in the UK
What we offer:
We offer well-being bonuses such as a personal learning budget, mindfulness sessions in the office, employee assistance programme and well-being champions
Private health and life insurance
Hybrid working arrangement – 2 days a week in the office
A range of different social clubs such as, book club, parents support network, five-a-side, chess club and more…
1 extra day of annual leave each year, up to 30 days of annual leave (not including public holidays)
Access to our Wader Hub benefits platform which include, retail, gym, hospitality, and wellness discounts
Meet Liam Higginbottom - Divisional Head of Delegate Sales
I joined Hanson Wade in September 2018 as a Delegate Sales Executive after graduating in Politics & International Relations. This was a really exciting time of growth and opportunity within the business which meant I was able to transition into a management role as a Team Leader after 12 months in DS. I’ve also had other great opportunities at Hanson Wade such as traveling to Texas earlier this year for our Advancing Prefabrication Conference where we welcomed 800+ attendees.
In my first year I was fortunate to work across a range of event portfolios including Automotive, Finance, Construction, Oil & Gas and Life Sciences. This meant I was able to quickly learn the necessary skills to help develop my career in sales while slowly being exposed to more of a mentoring role which ultimately led me to the Team Leader role. Being a TL in DS is a great opportunity to play a crucial role in the development and coaching of those on my team and our department while also picking up management skills I can leverage throughout my career.
Now as Divisional Head of Delegate Sales I manage 13 direct reports including other managers in the management team.
Meet Grace Coogans - Delegate Sales Manager
I joined HW in September 2021 straight out of university as a Delegate Sales Executive after graduating in Nutritional Science & Human Nutrition. I was lucky enough to work on multiple campaigns across various pillars including Cell & Gene Therapy, RNA & TPD, LEAP and Construction. As this was my first job out of university, I quickly learnt all of the valuable skills needed to work in sales. After just over a year in the role, I embarked on a 4 month trial in a new area of the business, Searchlight, where I was responsible for selling a subscription service. This was a completely new challenge for me, and I learnt a variety of skills, including consultative selling.
After the 4 months on the trial, I decided to come back to Delegate Sales and begin my management career. I started off as a Team Leader, which meant I was still selling whilst managing new graduates at the same time. I then progressed to my current role as Sales Manager, where I now have 10 direct reports and my role is to help develop their sales skills and progress them through our career progression matrix.
One of my favourite thing about Hanson Wade is the fact that I am constantly encouraged to try new things. My time in Searchlight allowed me to develop transferable skills to then bring back into Delegate Sales and ultimately is what has helped me progress!
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Graduate Sales Executive - Life ScienceDS · Hanson Wade Group · Hybrid
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