Advertising Sales Manager | Edge Resourcing Dubai, UAE
The Role
Advertising Sales Manager – Up to AED 24,000 plus commission
Our client is looking for an experienced Advertising Sales Manager to join their team. You will be responsible for a new publication to the Business World.
You will be:
- Working individually and within the sales team to meet and exceed all assigned event and/or magazine revenue sales targets
- Ensuring a high level of customer service and repeat business from existing and potential clients
- New Business. Identify, make contact and propose relevant products and marketing solutions to both new and previous clients
- Working with the Regional Sales Manager along with the events, editorial and management teams to consistently improve online, magazines and events revenues by suggesting, encouraging and, once approved, actively make happen new ideas, concepts and strategies.
- Creating specific promotional packages/coming up with innovative ideas for clients with unusual ‘outside of the box’ requirements, whilst always striving to work within existing product expenditure.
- Business Development including assisting to establish and implement marketing initiatives and new business plans and strategies.
- Working with the traffic, editorial and administration teams to ensure all potential business partner promises are met.
- Ensuring the effective management of the sales database and effective distribution of magazines and electronic information to existing and potential advertisers
- To ensure the timely sending of “Next Issue Guides” to all advertisers each month, well in advance of advertising deadlines
- Competition. To always remain one step ahead of any competitors in the marketplace and to ensure that management addresses any advances competitors may have made by proposing improvements to our own products in a timely manner.
- With the appropriate management approval, ensure media kits and sponsorship prospectus remain timely, up to date and always portray our publications and events as market leaders, with innovative solutions for our partners.
Requirements
You must have a proven track record of exceeding targets. Ideally have worked for a start up publication. Be degree educated, be able to work with no supervision, be a self starter, tenatious, dedicated, disciplined and eager. You should be able to hit the ground running and make things happen.
