Events Sales Manager

We are looking for a passionate, knowledgeable and experienced Sales Manager to join our Events team on a 12 month fixed-term contract!

Tate Events has four business strands, venue hire, catering, corporate membership and tours and experiences. The team delivers an exceptional and diverse programme of private and corporate events across all Tate sites. From high-profile brand activations and industry dinners to intimate private views and receptions.

Our ideal candidate has experience in event and corporate membership sales within a large, multi-site, multi venue setting. They will have corporate knowledge, excellent sales and business development skills, and most importantly be passionate about events, food & beverage, people, teamwork, arts and culture. This individual has a real drive for securing new business, pursuing business development opportunities and is an effective communicator, a relationship builder and someone who is comfortable and confident in their ability to overcome anything that is thrown their way.

Tate Eats is unique in the cultural world, a hospitality business whose purpose supports the vision and reach of Tate in all four of its galleries. All our profits are returned to Tate championing the right to the richness of art for everyone.

Our business is multi-faceted, we run restaurants, cafés and bars while delivering a vast range of events from film premieres to boardroom lunches. We are though much more than that, we have a pioneering roastery setting the agenda on gender equality in the coffee supply chain. We brew beer, we blend gin, we create teas, we have a multi award-winning wine programme, we visit farms, we research and write menus in response to Tate’s diverse programme, and we collaborate with artists and curators.

Become part of the Tate Eats dynamic team and be part of Tate. We offer a supportive, engaging working environment that is inspired by our surroundings and the creative institution we support. You will be able to express yourself, be challenged to think differently while working flexibly and collaboratively across teams. Tate Eats offers you the opportunity to grow personally and professionally in a nurturing, diverse business.

As well as a great place to work, we offer excellent benefits and development opportunities. 

Contract: Fixed Term - Full Time 40 hours per week on a fixed term basis for 12 months.

Working hours: 40

Pay frequency: Monthly - Salaried