Account Manager (Venues)

Venue Account Manager | OTE £38k-£50k pa | base salary £30k-£32k pa | uncapped commission | full time | permanent | hybrid/London | EMI share options + amazing benefits!

The Role

Hire Space is looking for an entrepreneurial salesperson to build our community of Prime venues, and deliver outstanding value to our key venue clients. Prime venues are the most visible venues, on the most visited events platform in Europe - front and centre for our key clients, and prominent in key brand communication campaigns.

As a Venue Account Manager, you will generate new business, create marketing campaigns and offer exemplary account management to make sure Prime venues are the most recognised and successful venues in events - and ensure they see industry-leading ROI for their investment in Hire Space. With your finger on the pulse of the UK venues and events world at all times, you’ll be the public face of Hire Space’s marketing team, and an ambassador for the brand within the industry and beyond.

Key responsibilities:

• Proactively reach out to key venues on the phone to ensure that they have a presence on Hire Space
• Keep a close eye on other online marketplaces. If a venue is appearing online, it should be appearing with us!
• Work with our client sales teams to ensure that when we need a venue, we sign that venue up
• Build strong relationships with venue groups, PR companies and industry associations so that we’re the first to know about new venues, before they open
• Build acquisition campaigns and manage the acquisition process from Lead to Sign Up
• Design automated processes and workflows to reach out to new venues and engage them with Hire Space
• Make new venues aware of promotional marketing opportunities and refer leads as appropriate 
• Organise exclusive client drinks and showrounds at new spaces alongside our business development team
• Work with our Support Team to ensure new venues are effectively represented on the website, and co-ordinate photography as required
• Ensure sales and marketing teams are informed and up to date on new live venues on the platform

You should apply if you:

• Have demonstrable sales experience with fantastic results to match and;
• At least 1 years experience within the events industry working with venues and;
• First class sales and account management skills
• You thrive in a culture of continuous learning and feedback.

It would be a bonus if you:

• Have experience in a role that gives you extensive knowledge of venues in London
• An understanding of modern marketing, including SEO, PPC and CRM

About Hire Space

Hire Space is a leader and pioneer in event technology, both in the UK and globally. We are at the forefront of a vibrant and fast-changing industry that is seeing a renaissance since the pandemic as companies seek to bring people together.

We operate the UK’s largest venue marketplace, which hosts over 6,000 venues and is used by over 2 million event planners each year. Our clients include Google, Facebook, Red Bull, MAC Cosmetics, UNICEF, and Dr. Martens. Separate to the online marketplace, our technology and team also power the global event functions at a number of well-known companies.

In addition to our well-known technology and expertise in venue finding, we have built a reputation for delivering world-class events both in-person and online through our own event platform, Arena.

Benefits

• £38k-£50k Salary (inc commission)
• £30k-£32k starting base salary
• Uncapped commission
• Medicash Pro-Active Health Cash Plan
• Workplace Nursery Scheme which allows you achieve tax savings by paying your nursery fees through your gross pay
• Generous EMI share option scheme, starting at 10% of OTE
• 4 weeks Company Paid Sick Leave
• Mental Health Day' Leave
• 32 days holiday allowance (inc bank holidays and our 3-day Hire Space Christmas shut down) with additional for long service
• 3pm Friday finishes during BST, average working hours of 36 per week over the year
• Tech and Cycle Schemes
• Access to the wellbeing Platform Juno where you're able to use your points for various great wellbeing perks!
• Exceptional maternity and paternity benefits
• Regular team socials and monthly team lunches
• Bespoke professional development with regular growth opportunities
• £200 Home office spending allowance
• Regular free nights out in London's most exciting venues
• Access to free Independent wellbeing coaching and therapy sessions as part of our Mental Health initiatives

Logistics

This is a hybrid remote / in-person role. You will be required to work from our Central London office location from time to time, and this allocation may change over time. You should always be somewhere that operates on UK time.

Our client base is predominantly in London and it is important that you are able to visit venues, clients and attend our away days in-person. You can usually expect to be in/around London on average 3 days per week.

Equal Opportunities Statement

At Hire Space, we embrace diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.