Vacancy title:
Direct Sales Freelancers

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
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• 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