We are a family-owned Art Education Company offering virtual corporate events, after school enrichment programs, classes, parties and DIY products for adults and children, across the United States and internationally. We’re Hiring an Event Sales & Relationship Specialist to work with our Corporate Events Team to build relationships and rapport with our clients while successfully coordinating events to a consistently high standard.
Location: This is a remote position
The ideal candidate will display a passion for connecting corporate team members through virtual creative experiences, have a strong track record in sales, and a solid background in event delivery and logistics. The goal is to build strong relationships with our clients to better understand how we can serve them and then serve them at the highest level to achieve sales goals.
This job has the potential of being 15-40 hours/week for the right person.
This position is for a person with the following skills/attributes:
- Adept at LinkedIn strategy and messaging
- Familiar with current corporate culture
- Can handle stress and tight deadlines
- Strong relationship building skills
- Organized and has great attention to detail and brand quality
- Embraces an “until it gets done” attitude
- Takes ownership and pride in their work
- Loves learning new things and can implement ideas quickly
- Is technology savvy [Google docs, spreadsheets, calendar]
- Can handle direct feedback
- Can juggle lots of moving pieces while staying collected
- Negotiation and sales
- Flexible, target-driven, proactive approach
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Engaging telephone manner and customer service
- Able to roll-with-it and come up with a new plan when there is a glitch
Job Responsibilities:
Sales & Marketing
- Achieve quarterly sales targets
- Successfully coordinate events with excellent results
- Promote new events
- Actively seek and support virtual event marketing opportunities
- Must be able to identify possibilities for revenue growth and then strategically plan to deliver on these opportunities
Relationships
- Developing good working relationships with industry event planners
- Understand and support our vision, mission and goals
- Develop relationships and rapport with your assigned clients
- Make prospecting calls to potential clients
- Responsible for the satisfaction of clients or customers by ensuring excellent customer service and quality delivery
- Proactive account management of existing clients to grow revenue
Successful Event Coordination/Delivery
- Respond to sales inquiries and process bookings within the same day the request is filed
- Liaise with clients to find out their exact event requirements
- Produce detailed proposals for events (including timelines, project recommendations, staffing and budgets)
- Manage all pre-event planning, organizing, kit shipments, and budget requirements
- Coordinate with the studio team to ensure clients have all packages for their events, handle client queries and troubleshoot on the day of the event to ensure that all runs smoothly and on budget
- Work closely with the studio team, teaching staff and the Event Team Leader to exceed client requirements to ensure consistently high standards
- Research opportunities for new clients and events
- Stay in touch with clients to develop relationships
- Collaborate with other departments and operational staff to ensure a high quality of event delivery
- Give full briefings at event staff meetings
- Make sure that insurance and legal obligations are followed
- Undertaking other duties as requested within the responsibilities of the position
Dragonfly Designs is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Dragonfly Designs does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex or pregnancy, age, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
