Vacancy title:
3 Direct Sales Executives

Jobs at:
Switch TV Broadcast

Deadline of this Job:
31st November 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 19 November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities
Reporting to the Sales Direct Manager, the Direct Sales Executives will be responsible for the following: –

•  Cultivate relationships with clients, gain deep insight into their business and ultimately provide solutions to their marketing and advertising needs. Having rich clients’ resources would be preferred
  
•  Analyze and integrate our resources, creating new ideas on how to expand advertising and sponsorship revenue and achieve the sales targets
  
•  Collect the information and analyze Kenya market and our competitors, creatively develop the sales strategies and plans against sales targets
  
•  Ability to work long hours in a high-pressure environment selling advertising airtime, commercial productions without supervision
  
•  Providing a holistic client service relations plan in order to optimize advertising budgets and achieve set revenue targets to clients so as to maximize broadcasting sales volumes and revenue targets
  
•  Any other tasks assigned by management
  

Qualifications
The ideal candidate must have a core understanding of media industry and marketing management especially the media environment/ facts in Kenya, at least 3 years’ experience in advertising sales. Experience in TV advertising will be an added advantage.
Skills:

•  Must be a graduate preferably in Marketing and Communications
  
•  Should have strong and comprehensive analytical and effective execution abilities.
  
•  Should be good at strategic thinking – to develop the business strategies that focus on short, medium and long term.
  
•  Should possess the ability and skills to write proposals
  
•  Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office Packages and other relevant marketing software.
  
•  Team work oriented.
  
•  Presentation and communication skills