Nation Media Group Vacancies: Business Executives

Nation Media Group the leading media house in East and Central Africa wishes to recruit suitably qualified
Business Executives.

Job Ref: HR-BE-02-2011

We invite applicants who are performance driven and possess excellent skills and capability to drive sales and revenues within a broadcast setting with commitment to our vision of being the Media of Africa for Africa.

The Role:

Reporting to the Business Manager, the Business Executives will develop, maintain and increase a solidly dependable client base and provide an effective service to clients in order to maximise advertising sales volumes and revenue targets.

Key responsibilities:

• Targeting and developing new sales accounts through handling external sales calls and prospecting clients.
• Obtaining research and market intelligence data for executing sales opportunities.
• Contributing to sales promotion ideas to sales and advertising team
• Retaining current business and developing new business contacts
• Marketing programming scheduling in order to attract commercials to the station.
• Preparing proposals and advertising ideas to area businesses while selling commercial advertising time and other station products to advertisers
• Maintaining sales contacts with appropriate representatives of major advertisers and issues resolutions.
• Understanding the business objectives and advertising strategies of clients and finding ways to help them achieve their objectives through effective advertising solutions.
• Attracting advertisers to sell products and services via television
• Executing budgets and targets through effective solicitations, promotions and customer service.

Skills, knowledge and experience requirement

• Basic University Degree
• 2 to 3 years experience in sales preferably in a broadcasting environment
• Assertive with the ability to develop relations with clients and to execute sales closures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Well developed presentation skills.

This position offers an excellent career growth opportunity and a competitive remuneration package. Attractive
commissions will be offered based on performance.

If you meet the above criteria, apply online at http://careers.nationmedia.com before 17th February 2011.

We shall only contact the short listed applicants.