Membership, Marketing & Sales Manager (maternity cover)

The Position

The Membership, Marketing & Sales Manager is responsible for ensuring that Ocean Energy Europe members receive a high standard of service, recruiting new members into the organisation, and marketing Ocean Energy Europe and its events, including its Annual Conference & Exhibition.

She/he will work closely with the Communications & Events Director and the CEO to deliver membership satisfaction and sales revenue against agreed targets.

The 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 to develop and grow. It also requires a strong strategic vision.

About Ocean Energy Europe

Ocean Energy Europe is the largest network of ocean energy professionals in the world. Over 120 organisations, including Europe’s leading utilities, industrialists and research institutes, trust OEE to represent the interests of Europe’s ocean energy sector.

Ocean Energy Europe’s mission is to create a strong environment for the development of ocean energy, improve access to funding, and enhance business opportunities for its members. To achieve this, OEE engages with the European Institutions (Commission, Parliament, Council, EIB, etc), and national ministries on policy issues affecting the sector.

The results are undeniable: in past four years the sector’s profile has increased significantly, and the EU has emerged as a major driver of the industry.

As a not-for-profit organisation, every euro invested in OEE is used to promote the European ocean energy industry. We are a team of young, hard-working and self-motivated professionals, here to make a difference.

More info: www.oceanenergy.eu

Responsibilities

Membership services and recruitment

• Recruiting and welcoming new members to OEE
• Ensuring member satisfaction and ensuring members are receiving a high value service
• Answer or delegate member queries and get members intelligence to inform the OEE team
• Identifying information of value to members and working with the team to deliver briefings
• Managing OEE’s online ‘Members Area’
• Promoting members’ news, progress, events etc. through OEE communications platforms
• Monitoring membership payments/invoices and addressing payment issues
• Generating statistics on membership and reporting on membership status to the OEE Board
• Management of the OEE ‘Vi Maris’ industry award.

Event Sales (OEE Annual Conference & Exhibition)

• Sponsorship sales and sponsor management
• Exhibition sales and exhibitor management
• Side event sales and management

Event Marketing

• Developing and implementing the branding and visual identity for all OEE events.

• Marketing of OEE’s annual event and other OEE events (newsletters, online promotion, website updates, advertising etc.).
• Identifying, negotiating and implementing media partnerships with relevant outlets and partners to amplify the promotion of the annual event.
• Production of annual event brochure and other event-related materials.

Other

• Organising OEE’s ‘Members Only’ events e.g. AGM, Strategy Day, pre-conference seminars.
• Managing OEE invoices receivable.

Qualifications

• Mandatory: Minimum 3 years’ experience in sales or marketing.
• Mandatory: Excellent oral and written English.
• Asset: Fluent Spanish, conversational level of French, Dutch and other European languages.
• Asset: Knowledge of the work of European trade associations, or the renewable energy sector.
• Asset: Some experience of managing events would be an advantage.

Profile

• A natural salesperson
• Proactive, independent, self-motivated
• A real ‘people person’, able to connect with senior industry contacts
• Ability to familiarise quickly with technical and commercial issues
• Team-player, aiming at the Association’s success above individual achievements.

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

Ocean Energy Europe offers an attractive salary and benefits package under Belgian law.

• Fixed-term contract: February 2022 – October 2022.
• Based in Brussels at OEE offices (but homeworking required under current Covid rules)

How to apply

Send your curriculum vitae and motivation letter to: events@oceanenergy.eu

Deadline: 7 January (applications considered on a rolling basis)

Important: CVs in “Europass” format or other institutional templates, or applications without a cover letter,will not be considered.

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