Job Description

Energy Capital & Power, Africa’s leading investment platform for the energy sector, is looking for Delegate Sales Executives to be based at our Cape Town office and reporting to ECP’s Commercial Director & COO, who will be responsible for building and maintaining client relationships and bringing delegates on board for ECP’s high-level series of events across Africa and Europe.

A Delegate Sales Executive is responsible for the sale of delegate passes to international conferences and events. This is a telesales role which involves selling to high level executives in the energy, mining & technology industries and includes a large volume of prospecting and cold calling to meet KPIs and targets.

Qualifications

• Individuals with a keen and sound knowledge of international, business and economic affairs
• Prior experience in sales is preferred but not compulsory.
• Ability to work effectively to achieve high-volume KPI call volumes.
• Perfect command of both written and spoken English.
• Fluency in a second language, preferably Portuguese, French or Arabic, is a plus.
• Commercial and business acumen.
• Outstanding personal presentation.
• Excellent organisational, networking and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter, functioning well within a team environment while being capable of working independently.
• Must demonstrate problem solving and communications skills.
• Ability to manage multiple accounts while seeking new opportunities
• Capable of adapting to new cultures and changing environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, HubSpot & Trello