Trainee Account Exec - £ 17,500 with another £6K in Christmas Bonus and commission
Fantastic Graduate Sales Opportunity within the magazine industry.
This is the number 1 magazine company in the UK, chances are, you have been buying their magazines for years.
Now is the chance to join their online division.
Through company growth and being part of a blue chip International organisation, this online website is currently expanding their sales team and looking for high calibre individuals to work across the following specialist interest sectors; music, fashion, auto-motive and equestrian.
As well as learning how to pitch the website at the relevant marketing managers you will also be given the opportunity to progress your career into sales management.
You can really plot your career here, the promotional opportunities are both structured and transparent, i.e you start off your career at entry level, next promotion is senior sales, after that you become Assistant Advertising Manager, then Ad Manager, Group Ad Manager, culminating in Magazine Publisher, where you will have responsibility for the entire magazine, both advertising and editorial content. Its certainly an achievement, as to salary, well a good Publisher in today’s market place would expect to earn in excess of £100,000.
Full training is given, in fact the training at this company is award winning and an industry standard, you don’t need experience but you do need to be a self starter, team player, have bags of enthusiasm with an entrepreneurial outlook, an appetite for the social side of the media industry is also a bit plus.
Key Responsibilities for the Online Sales Executive:
- Carry out direct marketing and sales activities in order to maintain and develop sales of online products
- Promote and sell the services to potential clients and arrange sales meetings where necessary
- Account Management – upgrade, cross sell and build relationships with existing clients
- Plan and prioritise sales activities in order to achieve personal targets
- Assist in marketing campaigns
- Compose sales proposals for potential clients
- Work closely with the senior business development managers and sales managers to help develop the sales services and products
Please send your CV over to be considered for the Dec 2011 intake, if we think you are suitable we will send a job spec and arrange an interview.