Experience

Reed Exhibitions - South Africa

• Senior Sales Coordinator

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  Marketing & PR - Assist the marketing department with all communication to exhibitors - Management of sales programme (from invites, to RSVPs) - Manage the listings on the website from coordinating and collating all the info to capturing on the back end - Assist collecting information for virtual event from exhibitors Sales - Send updated figures to GM on a weekly basis for updated SAAGs. - Control of floorplans for Decorex Durban, Cape Town and JHB. - Presentations for sales department. - Drawing up Sponsorship proposals. - Drawing up Sponsorship Contracts. - Support sales Department. - Preparing sales reports for Management meetings. - Manage budgets Administration - Ensure all sales contracts are filled in accurately and chase missing info. - Issue contracts for sales GM and follow up with the client. - Input all data accurately into the database/CRM programme. - Prepare credit notes and debit notes where applicable and email all necessary departments. - Once the floor plans have been correctly dated, email all relevant floor plans to regional reps. - To continuously check that all contracts, stand numbers and sizes match each other. - Responsible to check that any changes to the floor plan are communicated immediately. - Do a monthly double check of all confirmed contracts against the database-to check for duplicates. - Answer telephonic enquiries and send information - Pass on any applications to exhibit to Sales GM. - Back up support to Sales GM. This includes the preparation of all sales material required for regional sales trips. - Email exhibitor manual, briefing invites once received from services department. - Handle any queries from exhibitors regarding exhibitor manual & briefing. - Salesforce Champion for the Department Show less



U&G Fabrics

• South Africa
• Textile Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Administrator

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2015

  - Sales to new & existing Hotels, B&B’s, Restaurants, Lodges, clubs and Interior decorators. - Assisting Interior Decorators & Hotels with the decorating of Hotels, B&B’s, etc - Putting together story boards / schemes. - Costing of Quotations i.e. pricing etc. - Coordinating and monitoring project scheduling - Administration & management of the project until completion. - Prepare status reports in order to provide project status updates to management and ensure all procedures are followed for all aspects of projects. - Making sure deadlines are complied with and met. - Manage multiple tasks and re-prioritize work in response to urgent request. - Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team. - Assist in forecasting and managing projects, budgets, purchase orders and invoices - Filling in tenders. - Sales includes regular visits to key accounts clients. Show less