Role Title: Senior Sales Executive – One-Day Event Activation (Contract)
Company Description
CogniCo AI Consulting helps organizations adopt artificial intelligence in practical, responsible, and results-driven ways. We work with businesses, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations on AI strategy, automation, AI agents, workflow optimization, and organizational AI readiness.
Our focus is on translating complex AI capabilities into clear business value - helping teams improve efficiency, strengthen decision-making, build internal capacity, and identify meaningful opportunities for growth.
Role Description
CogniCo AI Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior Sales Executive for a one-day, on-site event activation in Mississauga, Ontario on October 8, 2026.
This is a high-energy, client-facing role focused on representing CogniCo at a major business and innovation event, engaging attendees, identifying qualified prospects, and generating meaningful sales opportunities for our consulting services.
Event Shift: October 8, 2026 - approximately 10 hours on-site
Paid Training: October 4, 2026 - 4-hour paid training session
The successful candidate will receive training on CogniCo’s services, positioning, target clients, lead qualification process, and event activation strategy before the event.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent CogniCo professionally throughout the event and actively engage attendees at the activation space.
- Start meaningful conversations with business leaders, nonprofit executives, public-sector representatives, and other potential clients.
- Clearly communicate CogniCo’s AI consulting, automation, AI readiness, and capacity-building services.
- Identify attendee needs and connect CogniCo’s services to relevant operational or business challenges.
- Qualify prospective clients and identify high-potential sales opportunities.
- Encourage qualified prospects to book consultations or follow-up meetings with the CogniCo team.
- Capture complete and accurate lead information for post-event follow-up.
- Support short demonstrations, service explanations, and activation activities as required.
- Collaborate closely with CogniCo leadership and team members throughout the event.
- Provide a brief post-event handoff of priority leads, conversations, and potential opportunities.
Qualifications
- Strong B2B sales, business development, or client engagement experience.
- Proven confidence approaching and engaging new prospects in person.
- Experience selling technology, professional services, consulting, SaaS, AI, digital transformation, or related solutions is strongly preferred.
- Ability to understand business challenges quickly and communicate solutions in clear, non-technical language.
- Excellent communication, presentation, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable engaging senior executives, business owners, government representatives, and organizational decision-makers.
- Strong lead qualification skills and the ability to recognize genuine commercial opportunities.
- Professional, energetic, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced event environment.
- Ability to remain engaged and client-facing throughout a 10-hour event shift.
- Must be available for the 4-hour paid training session on October 4 and the full activation on October 8, 2026.
- Must be able to work on-site in Mississauga, Ontario.
This role is best suited for someone who is naturally comfortable starting conversations, understands consultative selling, and can quickly move from an introduction to understanding a prospect’s business needs.
We are looking for someone who can represent CogniCo credibly, generate qualified opportunities, and create a strong first impression with potential clients.
