Sales, Membership & Marketing Manager

Sales, Membership & Marketing Manager

Ocean Energy Europe

Brussels, Belgium

The Position

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.

How to apply – by Sunday 3 May

Send CV and motivation letter addressed to Rémi Gruet at r.gruet@oceanenergy.eu.

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

About Ocean Energy Europe – www.oceanenergy.eu

Ocean Energy Europe is an established membership organisation set up to represent the sector at European level. It acts as a hub for ocean energy information & networking and works closely with the Commission, Parliament and Member States to promote the development of ocean energy.

OEE boasts a diverse team of EU renewable energy experts; creative, innovative, and dedicated to providing the ocean energy sector with the best possible visibility and support. The Association has the support from most of the sector’s CEOs, reaches the highest political levels in advocacy and organises the largest EU conference and exhibition on ocean energy.