Commercial Executive

Augustus Media Holdings Ltd; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic media company located in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Sales Executive to attract new business and manage client relationships. The ideal candidate should have at least one year of sales experience, preferably in media or advertising. Responsibilities include generating leads, negotiating sales deals, and working closely with content teams. A positive and collaborative attitude is essential, along with strong organizational and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• At least one year sales experience in the media industry.
• Agency, media or advertising company experience required.
• Ability to work on one’s own initiative and generate leads.

Responsibilities

• Attract new business and convert leads to sales.
• Work closely with content teams and clients.
• Negotiate sales deals and manage sales meetings.

Skills

Sales experience

Creative problem solving

Organizational skills

Presentation skills

Time management

Job description

Responsibilities

• Attract new business, identifying potential customers and convert leads to sales
• Work closely with in-house content teams and Lovin Saudi clients to ensure work is fulfilled
• Negotiating sales deals and any costs
• Building long lasting and profitable relationships
• Managing sales meetings
• Ensuring all follow ups and executions are done above standard
• Regular and insightful reporting on sales
• Comprehensive understanding of analytics and other measurement tools in order to show ROI data for sponsors and advertisers
• Generates proposal and pitch documents as required

Requirements

• At least one year sales experience in the media industry (Internship or part time experience accepted as well)
• Agency, Media or Advertising company experience required
• Creativity and strong ideas for responding to client briefs
• Ability to work on one’s own initiative and generate leads
• Comfortable with working to monthly/quarterly targets
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, presentation and time management skills
• Ability to work within start-up environment
• Capacity to organize event brand activations
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once, often to short deadlines

Finance

• Support account manager / editor managing social advertising budgets
• Delivering proposals to support increased budgets
• Supporting in delivery of company revenue targets
• Regularly reporting on budgets to Country Manager

People

• Assist in fostering a high performance led culture
• Bring along a positive, collaborative, ready to learn attitude always
• Develop SMART performance objectives alongside your line manager
• Promoting Augustus as a great place to work, ensuring positivity is championed and your team feels prepared to live out the 3 core values

Professional Development

• Build on your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Grow your presence in the industry, including relationships within agency partners and industry bodies to support professional stature
• Complete mandatory training