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Business: emap\n\n Brands: Property Week, Motor Trader, DFNI, Packaging and Money Marketing\n\n Base Location: East Croydon\n\n * Employment Type: Full time, Permanent/ Hybrid\n\nAbout the company and the brand:\n\nA business-to-business (B2B) media company with a focused portfolio of market-leading events and brands. Across the company, we create products our customers value to help drive their success, which in turn drives our own growth. Our product focus is around paid for conferences, awards, subscriptions, digital insight and bespoke marketing solutions.\n\nEmap’s Emerald division in Croydon consists of exciting B2B brands with over 24 events annually highlighting several business sectors including:\nRetail Industry Awards – are widely regarded as ‘The Oscars’ of the grocery retail sector\nDuty Free Frontier – the Frontier Awards shine a spotlight on the outstanding accomplishments of the travel retails industry.\nQuality Food Awards – are the longest-running, most prestigious food awards in the UK\nMotor Trader Industry Awards – are recognised as the Oscars of the motor industry in celebrating excellence across motor retailing.\nMoney Marketing Interactive – a unique annual event that focus on providing our IFA audience, with the ideas and tools needed to make planning business even more successful.\nUK Packaging Awards – where innovation meets excellence in the heart of the packaging industry.\nAudio Visual Awards – for integrators and consultants working on both global and local projects, through to AV and IT end-users from all markets.\nElektra Awards – provide a prime platform to recognise achievements of those in the electronics industry. Real Estate – the portfolio includes Property Week the leading media title with events which are highlighting the residential, commercial and student housing sectors.\n\nOverall Purpose of the Role:\n\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for conducting outbound calls and emails to generate award entries, attendance at awards and drive conference delegate revenue for our events. You will be responsible for maintaining, developing and growing relationships to generate sales, exceed targets and secure repeat business.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n• To raise and maintain brand profile with your connections\n• Work with the events marketing and operations leads to conduct outbound calling during the sales period for entries and event attendance\n• Work on a wide array of brands and events, keeping on top of inbound calls and enquiries, logging communication and turning enquiries into bookings\n• Prepare weekly, monthly and periodic reporting as per requirements of the team to showcase YoY event sales performance\n• Work with the Head of Delegate Sales to conduct market research for new business to acquire the market response.\n• Identify and develop new business leads and develop new business accounts\n• Work closely with the brand’s commercial/sponsorship teams to understand their brand and clientele\n• Attend our events as required, to meet with prospective clients, and provide exposure of the events through conversation.\n• Using mail merge/email systems to reach out to prospective attendees for an event\n• Ensure maximum delivery against sales targets across portfolio of events\n• Monitoring, prioritizing, and reporting sales and opportunities to ensure that targets are being met and business opportunities are being exposed\n• Quarterly and annual revenue targets to benefit from a lucrative commission scheme and other incentives (both team and individual)\n• Using brand and event knowledge to devise sales plans and outreach strategy to drive event sales\n\nSkills and Experience:\n• 1 year’s sales experience in the B2B sector\n• Previous commercial telephone experience or sales experience in a similar role is preferable\n• Sales orientated with a consultative style\n• Ability to communicate at a senior executive level in a professional manner\n• Outstanding communication skills in written and verbal\n• Well-organised and able to deliver when under pressure and to deadlines\n• Ability to pay attention to detail and ensure all communications are of high quality\n• Good IT skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams\n• Commitment to a high standard of customer service and client relations\n• Ability to conduct telephone research/acquire feedback, speaking to pools of clients\n• Driven by event performance targets\n\nCore competencies:\n• Fluency in English is essential for this role, other languages are beneficial\n• Quick to gain understanding of new market sectors and brand position\n• Ability to build, nurture and maintain client relationships, providing exceptional customer service\n• Excellent organisation, time management skills\n• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines\n• Ability to report on performance, event sales outreach and pipeline\n\nPersonal Attributes:\n• Target-driven, money-motivated individual with a positive can-do attitude\n• Confident, enthusiastic, and charismatic, with the natural ability to build rapport both on the phone and face to face.\n• An active team player with a competitive edge\n• Articulate and polite telephone manner\n• Self-motivated and professional demeanor\n• Innovative and creative, confident in communicating ideas\n• Adaptable and flexible to change\n• Results driven\n\nWhat we offer\n\nLearning & Development:\n\nAt emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.\n\nOur employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, event management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives.\n\nTo support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialised programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.\n\nBenefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.\n\n 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days.\n\n One additional day of annual leave per year- Celebration Day.\n\n Health plan\n\n Life assurance\n\n Private virtual GP access\n\n Seasonal flu jabs available at the office.\n\n Continuous learning & development opportunities.\n\n In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects.\n\n Cycle-to-work scheme\n\n Discounted gym memberships\n\n Retail discount vouchers\n\n Rail season ticket loans\n\n Pension scheme\n\n One paid volunteer day per year\n\n Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations\n\n Work from home during August\n\n * Income protection and more\n\nPrivacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept.\n\nDiversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.\n\nHow to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead engineering and reliability within a fast-paced, highly automated food manufacturing environment. Reporting to the Factory Manager, this role is responsible for driving maintenance strategy, improving asset performance, and leading a team of engineers to deliver high levels of efficiency, reliability, and safety across the site. Client Details My client is a premium food brand known for its fruit-based preserves and desserts, this company combines simple, natural ingredients with large-scale manufacturing expertise. Its products are widely recognised for their focus on minimal processing, with a culture built around hands-on leadership, continuous improvement, and delivering high-quality food at scale. Description Leadership & People Management Lead, develop, and structure the engineering team to meet site objectives Manage recruitment, onboarding, and training of engineering staff Assess team capability and implement development plans Promote a proactive, collaborative, and high-performance culture Maintenance & Reliability Lead and deliver the preventive maintenance strategy across the site Ensure effective use of the CMMS to plan, track, and optimise maintenance activities Drive improvements in equipment reliability and uptime Analyse breakdowns, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions Maintain accurate equipment history and performance data Operational Performance Collaborate with production and technical teams to optimise line performance Support delivery of key KPIs including efficiency, downtime, energy usage, and cost control Oversee spare parts management and maintenance budgets Ensure maintenance activities are delivered in the most cost-effective manner Continuous Improvement & Projects Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and operations Support the introduction of new equipment and technologies Work alongside project teams to ensure smooth integration of new assets Prepare engineering teams for ongoing maintenance of new installations Utilities, Sustainability & Compliance Oversee site utilities and energy systems Support sustainability initiatives, including energy and emissions targets Ensure compliance with all health, safety, and regulatory standards Lead by example in promoting a strong safety culture Profile Proven experience in a Head of / Maintenance Manager role within manufacturing Strong knowledge of both mechanical and electrical engineering Experience working in highly automated production environments A hands-on leader with excellent people management and communication skills Strong problem-solving ability with a continuous improvement mindset Confident using maintenance management systems and data-driven tools Able to react quickly and effectively in a fast-paced, short lead-time environmentJob Offer A competitive salary ranging from £80000 to £(phone number removed) per annum Relocation paid if needed Comprehensive benefits package (details available upon request) A supportive and forward-thinking company culture Opportunities for professional growth and development