Inside Media Sales Rep Job Opening
Inside Media Sales Rep
Tribune Publishing
• Deerfield Beach, Florida
Category: Inside Sales Representative
Overview
Multi-Media Inside Sales Representative
The Sun Sentinel is the dominant, local, online, and media source for Broward County and Southern Palm Beach County. www.sun-sentinel.com/
Our parent company, Tribune Publishing is a leading multi-media company in Chicago, IL
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Ability to produce and handle a high volume of outbound calls to develop new business opportunities
- Manages and services existing relationships while seeking new opportunities to sell deeper into our portfolio of products with the ultimate goal of growing digital and print product offerings
- Maximize revenue through a consultative sales approach with the ability to represent solutions across the full portfolio of Sun-Sentinel products
- Foster and develop professional relationships within the community and client organizations by attending community, chamber, industry and client functions
- Identify customer needs through pre-call planning, utilization of marketing resources, competitive analysis, and customer feedback in order to connect meaningful media solutions across the Tribune portfolio
- Maintain adherence to internal processes and reporting to ensure that all aspects of campaign management are executed correctly
- Maintains extensive understanding of market and related industries to help identify trends and patterns within specific verticals
- Works collaboratively across the organization to build meaningful cross-platform new and existing client solutions
- Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional/competitive publications.
- Required to attend internal training and skill development workshops
- Utilize support roles and resources in order to maximize sales time
- Deliver uncompromising customer support and attention to detail
- Participates in special projects/sales initiatives and perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business (Marketing, Communication, Journalism or Advertising concentration preferred) or 1-2 years of equivalent direct sales experience
- Strong digital acumen required
- Effective relationship-building skills
- Demonstrated success in meeting revenue goals
- Must possess excellent communication skills
- Knowledge and experience working with a CRM and Microsoft Office products to manage day to day activities