Portfolio Manager - Life Sciences

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Job description

Portfolio Manager - Life Sciences

40,000 - 55,000 + 10,000 - 20,000 Bonus

Industry leading media business seeks talented Portfolio Development Director to develop cutting-edge content and create commercial opportunities within the Life Science space.

Our client is launching an exciting subscription based offering off the back of their highly successful event portfolios.

This subscription based offering develops a value-added year-round online community in conjunction with the companys fastest growing events in high value, game-changing therapeutic areas.

Were looking for an ambitious and highly commercial person to help our client take a nascent 250k subscription business and turn it into a 1m asset within 12 months, laying the foundations for significant growth beyond that.

Taking responsibility for identifying and validating new online communities, you will engage event attendees to assess the need for groups, designing the scope of groups, and then securing 12+ founder members for each new group.

About the role

If you thrive in making your mark in a start-up style environment, blazing a trail that hasnt been travelled before, and are passionate about getting results for your clients as much as for yourself, then this role, helping strategic life sciences leaders plug into value-adding year-round online networks of peers focused in similar areas is the perfect role for you.

About you

To be successful you will need to have:

2.5+ years of conference production or strategic sales experience - ideally in the Life Sciences sector

A track record of successful topic generation\/identification and an eye for a commercial opportunity

Experience of closing new business directly and comfort in high level commercial conversations

A desire to work in a start-up, entrepreneurial environment and operate as a true 'all-rounder

A high degree of comfort in front of an audience of senior people facilitating strategic conversations

About the package

The opportunity to work in a profitable, dynamic, fast-growth business environment

World class training, superior development options, and unlimited career opportunities

A supportive environment that loves to celebrate success through social events, awards and drinks

Excellent company benefits inc flexible working

Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry.

We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities.

We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.

We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.