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Current vacancies
Interim Partnerships Executive
The Partnerships Executive plays a key role in developing CST’s commercial relationships. Their
primary responsibility is to secure conference exhibition sales to meet budget targets and
manage all aspects of the exhibitor experience from prospecting to on-the-day support, to post-event communications. They also manage listings in the Directory of Services and work closely
with the Partnerships Manager to support the prospecting process.
- Reporting to: Partnerships Manager
- Contract: Temporary 1 year contract starting Monday 2 June 2025. Full time, 37.5 hours a
week consisting of 9am–17.30pm with 1-hour unpaid break. We are happy to consider flexible
working options.
- Salary: £28,709 per year
- Pension: We offer a workplace pension and life assurance scheme. CST makes contributions equivalent to 10% of your gross salary.
- Annual leave: Initially 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with an additional two days leave after three years.
- Location: Home-based, with occasional travel for meetings and events. We provide equipment to
support you working from home, and pay reasonable expenses when you need to travel for work.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to recruitment@cstuk.org.uk by midday Monday 7 April 2025. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 16 April 2025, with the second stage interviews being held on Thursday 17April 2025.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure that exhibition sales targets are met for each CST conference.
- Maintain the CRM for commercial organisations, including creating and managing prospect groups and executing effective exhibition sales campaigns.
- Create and maintain relevant webforms.
- Provide excellent end-to-end support for exhibitors, including in person at larger conferences to ensure that all exhibitors’ needs are met on the day.
- Gather feedback from exhibitors on the quality of their experience and report on what worked well and areas for improvement following each event.
- Maintain and update marketing collateral to support CST’s commercial activities such as brochures, floorplans, briefings and manuals.
- Cross-promote the Directory of Services to exhibitors along with other opportunities to work with CST where relevant.
- Manage the sales and onboarding process for the Directory of Services, including overseeing the references, undertaken by a third party, sending out agreements and liaising with the marketing team on the promotion of new suppliers.
- Support the Partnerships Manager in the development of the commercial pipeline for CST partnerships by holding initial meetings with new prospects and identifying opportunities for engagement
Person specification:
Essential skills and experience
- Excellent customer facing skills
- Good communication
- Strong organisation skills and good attention to detail
- Independent worker
- Proactive and takes initiative
- Creative and solutions oriented
- Approachable and friendly
- A helpful team player
Desirable skills and experience
- Sales experience appreciated
- Target oriented
- Events/service industry experience beneficial
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About your application
Education is universal, and we believe it is important that our staff reflect the diversity of our members’ schools and the children that they serve. We welcome applications from every background. Several of our staff work part time or compressed hours to help ensure a good balance between work and home life.
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