Sales, Membership & Marketing Manager

Position description

The Sales, Membership & Marketing Manager is responsible for recruiting new members into the organisation and marketing Ocean Energy Europe, especially its Annual Conference & Exhibition.

The Sales, Membership & Marketing Manager is an outward-facing role within the organisation, dealing with industry stakeholders on a regular basis. This requires a genuine interest in supporting ocean energy organisations on their growth path.

OEE members are the source of its political credibility and the Association aims at building long-term relationships with its members, in some cases since its inception in 2006. This means a focus on long-term relationship building, rather than pursuing short-term revenue-making.

S/he will report to the Communications & Events Director and work closely with her and the team to deliver membership satisfaction and sales revenue growth against agreed targets.

Responsibilities

Membership services and sales

• Recruiting and welcoming new members to OEE;
• Ensuring member satisfaction and ensuring members are receiving a high value service;
• Answering member queries and getting members intelligence to inform the OEE team;
• Identifying information of value to members;
• Managing OEE’s online ‘Members Area’;
• Promoting members’ news, progress, events etc. through OEE communications platforms;
• Generating statistics on membership and reporting on membership status to the OEE Board.

Events Sales & Marketing

• Sponsorship sales and sponsor management for the OEE Annual Conference & Exhibition;
• Exhibition sales and exhibitor management for the OEE Annual Conference & Exhibition;
• Marketing OEE events (newsletters, media partners, online promotion, website updates, etc.);
• Producing OEE Annual Conference & Exhibition programme and other event materials;
• Managing the OEE “Vi Maris” Award.

Other

• Organising OEE’s ‘Members Only’ events e.g. AGM, Strategy Day, pre-conference seminar;
• Managing OEE’s contact database, ensuring 100% accuracy of members’ contact details;
• Managing outgoing invoices, monitoring payments and addressing issues.

Qualifications

• Mandatory: University degree in relevant field – Sales, marketing, business;
• Mandatory: Minimum 3 years’ experience in sales, marketing or business;
• Mandatory: Excellent oral and written English;
• Asset: Fluent French and speaker-level in other languages, e.g. Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese;
• Asset: Knowledge of the work of European trade associations, or the renewable energy sector;
• Asset: Experience of managing events.

Profile

• Proactive, independent, self-motivated;
• A real ‘people’s person’, able to connect with senior industry contacts;
• Able to familiarise quickly with technical and commercial issues;
• A team-player, aiming at the Association’s success above his own;
• We assume all candidates will be able to prioritise, work under pressure, on budget and to tight deadlines, have an eye for detail, etc.

Conditions

• €38k-€48k Gross salary depending on experience, plus benefits package under Belgian law;
• Unlimited full-time contract;
• Based in Brussels at OEE offices with partial remote working possibility;
• Start date: As soon as possible.

Application instructions

Send CV and motivation letter addressed to Rémi Gruet at [email protected].

CVs in “Europass” format or other institutional templates will not be considered.

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