New Business Development Manager

Department: Events

Team: Sales

Location: Shanghai or Beijing

Position type: 12 months fixed term contract

What the hiring manager says

The GSMA is a trade association for the mobile connectivity ecosystem. We run a highly successful series of Events as well as a burgeoning Media, Data Intelligence and Services business. We have identified a number of areas where we see future growth within our Events platform and are looking for a highly commercial, sales focused individual to start mining those opportunities.

With the kudos and track record of the GSMA behind you, and your sales savvy knowledge and skillset, this role will appeal to someone keen to make an impact, open up new sectors and bring high value new clients to the GSMA. If you are a self-starter, with a stellar sales track record and a  hunter style skill set, I can’t wait to hear from you! 

Sarah Britten, New Business Development Director

About the Team

This role sits within the highly successful global sales team, reporting into the New Business Development Director. You will have access to, and be able to utilise the connections and relationships made by not only the sales team, but more importantly the wider Association from their lobbying, technology and promotional work.

GSMA’s influence within the connectivity industry is far reaching providing you with a platform from which you can start sourcing new clients for the Events business. The core to our success is teamwork, leveraging the expertise of the wider team, we work in a cross functional, matrix environment.

About the Role

This role requires someone with excellent sales experience and commercial awareness. A hunter style selling skill set is a must. You need to have the ability to utilise your sales knowledge to mine for new clients or partners within a given sector.

With the ability to map out a client you are skilled at identifying the buyers within a new project, vertical or sector. Utilising your excellent communication skills you will be able to quantify an opportunity, clearly explain the benefits and ROI, and move them through the sales process to contract signature.

This is not a typical sales role selling an off the shelf product – you need to be creative in your proposals and match client needs with our solutions. Deals are expected to be complex, high value and far reaching, and include multiple elements to create a comprehensive package.

About You

• An experienced sales professional with extensive sales experience from either the Events, Media or Telecoms industries

• Knowledge of the connectivity and telco landscape within China/APAC with established contacts at a senior level at both vendor and government institutions

• An understanding of Chinese Industrial and Telecommunications policy and the role this plays in shaping the future of connectivity in China

• A hunter style skill set and motivated by winning new business or forging new partnerships

• A strong commercial background with a history of reaching and exceeding sales targets

• Able to create and write complex proposals fully harnessing the breadth of an opportunity

• An autonomous approach to working and a self-starter attitude

• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

• Computer literate with ideally knowledge of Salesforce

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What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.