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Speakers Academy® is the European speaker agency and in more than twenty years it has grown into the absolute market leader. Bringing knowledge to the world’ is our slogan and an exact description of our mission, namely to improve communication between people, companies and governments and to transfer knowledge and insights. Many speakers and clients have found their way to Speakers Academy® over the years. Our experienced team relieves them of all their worries, serves them fully, stands for quality and therefore distinguishes itself in this sector.
For the sales department, Speakers Academy® is looking for a colleague to join our team. As a consultant, you will be dealing with requests for and bookings of our speakers on a daily basis, both on the Dutch and international markets. You will also be involved in online marketing and actively approaching new speakers and clients.
Operating activities
- Processing requests and converting them into bookings.
- Consult customers in the field of lectures and presentations.
- Sustainable maintenance of relations with speakers and clients.
- To act as a sparring partner and trusted advisor for your speaker portfolio.
- Active approach to new speakers and clients (building your own database), both nationally and internationally.
- Taking care of current content for the website and social media.
- Setting up, executing and optimizing (online) marketing campaigns.
Profile
The ideal candidate is an enterprising professional who goes for quality. You act as an advisor and anticipate the needs of both the client and the speaker. You like advice, but don’t lose sight of the commercial goal. You like to score on results, but you also know that it takes more than a quick chat and you are willing to acquire knowledge and thus become an expert. Your analytical skills are of great importance when setting goals and strategies.
Even under high pressure of work, you continue to function well and changing circumstances are matched with a different approach. You can withstand constructive criticism and are convinced that – no matter how good you are – you can always grow.
Skills, characteristics and requirements
- At least one completed higher professional education (HBO) course.
- Excellent communication skills, both in words and in writing.
- Excellent knowledge of the Dutch, French and English language
- A broad, generalist interest in all aspects (social, economic, cultural, political) of society.
- Sharp insight into human relationships.
- Having a commercial institution, seeing opportunities in the market and exploiting them with your colleagues.
- Experience with MS Office and other software; experience with InDesign, Premiere Pro and iMovie is an advantage.
- In possession of driving licence BE
Profile Candidate
- Entrepreneurial and problem-solving
- Operates both independently and in a team
- Creative
- Communicative
- Stress resistant and accurate
- Feeling of responsibility
- Representative
What do we offer you?
- A full-time job in the heart of Rotterdam
- Challenging projects with a lot of variety
- Our great network
- A pleasant, informal working atmosphere in which you work together with passionate colleagues
- A suitable salary and associated conditions of employment
- Successes are celebrated!
Interest
Send your CV and motivation letter in which the requirements and your qualities as a (junior) all-round consultant have been expressed to vacature@speakersacademy.nl.