Turn great conversations into memorable events.
A-Speakers is looking for a commercially driven Sales Executive to join our international team and help companies find the right keynote speakers for their events.
This is a consultative sales role built around high-quality inbound enquiries. You won't spend your day cold calling or working through generic prospect lists. Instead, you'll speak with organisations that are actively planning events and looking for expertise, inspiration and ideas.
Your job is to understand what clients are trying to achieve, identify the right speakers and guide the conversation from initial enquiry through to a successful booking.
Our clients range from growing businesses and agencies to some of the world's leading organisations. Our speakers include business leaders, bestselling authors, academics, entrepreneurs, athletes and internationally recognised experts.
No two enquiries are quite the same, and that's what makes the role interesting.
What you'll be doing
You'll take ownership of your own pipeline and manage opportunities from first conversation through to confirmed booking.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Responding quickly and professionally to qualified inbound enquiries
- Speaking with clients to understand their event, audience, objectives and budget
- Researching and recommending speakers who genuinely fit the brief
- Presenting options and proposals in a clear and commercially compelling way
- Advising clients throughout their decision-making process
- Negotiating fees and commercial terms
- Managing the full sales cycle from enquiry through to signed agreement
- Following up consistently and keeping opportunities moving
- Building relationships that lead to repeat business and long-term partnerships
- Maintaining an accurate and well-managed pipeline in our CRM
- Working closely with colleagues across sales, speaker relations and event coordination
You'll be trusted to manage your opportunities independently, while working within a team that shares knowledge, ideas and successes.
Who we're looking for
We're less interested in finding someone with the "perfect" CV than someone with the right commercial mindset.
You may already have around 3–6 years of experience in B2B, account management or consultative sales, but attitude, curiosity and potential matter just as much.
You'll probably enjoy this role if you:
- Like speaking with people and quickly understanding what matters to them
- Are commercially ambitious and motivated by achieving targets
- Know how to ask good questions rather than simply deliver a sales pitch
- Take ownership and follow through on what you say you'll do
- Are organised and comfortable managing multiple opportunities at different stages
- Communicate confidently and professionally by phone, video and email
- Are comfortable negotiating and asking for the business
- Enjoy working with people from different industries, countries and professional backgrounds
- Are curious about business, leadership, technology, society and the ideas shaping organisations
- Learn quickly and are comfortable working with CRM and digital sales tools
- Enjoy individual responsibility while contributing to a team
Experience within events, media, recruitment, hospitality, professional services or another relationship-led industry can be valuable, but isn't essential.
What matters most is that you can build trust, understand a client's needs and turn a good conversation into commercial action.
What success looks like
This isn't a role where activity for activity's sake matters.
Success means responding well to opportunities, understanding clients, making strong recommendations and consistently converting enquiries into bookings.
You'll have clear commercial targets and visibility into your performance, but you'll also have the freedom to develop your own approach.
We value people who are ambitious about their results without losing sight of the quality of the client experience.
What we offer
- Competitive base salary with uncapped commission
- A consistent flow of qualified inbound opportunities
- Clear targets and the opportunity to directly influence your earnings
- Hybrid working and flexibility
- A high degree of ownership over your pipeline and client relationships
- Training, coaching and ongoing professional development
- An international working environment
- The opportunity to work with leading experts and organisations across industries
- A collaborative team where knowledge and success are shared
About A-Speakers
A-Speakers is an international speakers bureau connecting organisations with keynote speakers and experts who can make a genuine difference to their events.
Our role goes beyond providing a list of names.
Clients come to us for advice. They might know the challenge they want to address but not the speaker they need. They may be organising a leadership conference, an annual meeting, a customer event or an international summit and need someone who can understand the brief and guide them towards the right choice.
That's where you come in.
You'll be selling, but you'll also be listening, advising, researching, matching and building relationships.
We work with organisations across markets and cultures, which means curiosity and good judgement matter. We move quickly when opportunities arise, take responsibility for our work and expect a high standard from ourselves and each other.
We are commercially ambitious, but we believe strong results come from doing good work: understanding the client, following through and building relationships that last.
Ready to join us?
If you're looking for a sales role where you can take ownership, develop commercially and work with interesting people and ideas every day, we'd like to hear from you.
Apply now and let's start the conversation.
Pay: £25,420.00-£63,746.29 per year
Experience:
- B2B sales: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
