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Digital Account Executive
Gannett
New Castle, DE, United States
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USA TODAY NETWORK is one of the top 20 digital companies in the country, sharing the list with Google, Facebook, and Amazon. And we have over 100 million unique visitors a month, which is more than Buzzfeed, Yahoo News, and Huffington Post. Because our team consists of over 110 local properties with USA TODAY at the helm, you’ll have the luxury of living in a community you love while making a national impact.
The News Journal Media Group, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, and the leader in delivering engaging news and information, has an immediate opening for a Sales Executive, Digital. We deliver an ENGAGED AUDIENCEusing a variety of SOPHISTICATED TOOLSand resources, and provide our clients the INTEGRATED MARKETING EXPERTISEto help them meet their goals.
In this role, you will:
• Grow market share within a designated account list through the combination of acquiring new business and increasing current client spend while increasing client satisfaction.
• Sells digital marketing solutions to the regional or large account sector that makes decisions locally.
• Demonstrates an understanding of these products and is able to articulate our products and their value propositions to customers.
• Develops an understanding of the customer’s individual business needs, trends and patterns within specific verticals. Develops an understanding of account base and related industries.
• Develops and works a pipeline of potential customers’ growth within existing base; produce accurate forecasts.
• Works with Client Solutions/Market Development to develop strategies at both the client and vertical level.
• Works with Account Manager(s), Sales Manager(s) and Client Solutions/Market Development to develop and deliver custom solutions that provide and deliver ROI to customers. Focuses on delivering and obtaining long term commitments and campaigns.
• Maintains an awareness of revenue responsibilities and performance to goal.
• This is an outside sales position.
We offer a robust, rewarding career experience:
• Work with the best: We’ll surround you with talented leaders driven toward your success and ours.
• Do well here: Further your career while working to serve the greater good in our community.
• Go big: We’ll equip you with the region’s best marketing services and solutions, empowering you to deliver unparalleled results to your customers.
• Get paid well: Enjoy base pay well above the market average with unlimited earning potential. We want the best so we are paying the best.
• Get in now: Join the ground floor of a national organization in the midst of rapid transformation to a new and exciting media start-up – an invaluable career experience.
• Quarterback a topnotch team: Receive excellent support from an account manager, a digital campaign manager, a marketing strategist and more.
Signs you may be a great fit for the job:
• You’re a battle tested competitor with the war stories to prove it.
• When you communicate, people listen. And when you listen, people feel heard.
• You care deeply about your community and have taken steps to make it better.
• You’re the natural born leader in any group. And you love stepping up to the plate.
• You’re a fearless explorer with an insatiable urge to travel, explore new hobbies and try new things.
• You’re a problem solver who thrives on challenges and can simplify the complex.
• You graduated college with an impressive GPA and an extracurricular life.
• You possess 2-5+ years of digital sales experience.
Qualified candidates for the position must demonstrate these key competencies:
• History of driving results
• Ability to think and act strategically
• Fundamental AND Challenger sales skills
• Strong two-way communicationskills
• Effective collaborator and delegator
• Aptitude or acumen for digital marketing