Account Director - Smooth North West

Communicorp UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work between home and office

Flexible working hours

Career progression routes

Learning and development opportunities

25 days holiday

Pension

Healthcare

Uncapped commission

Company car or car allowance

Job summary

Communicorp UK is seeking an Account Director (New Business Specialist) for Smooth North West, to drive new business and deepen client partnerships across the UK market. You will source opportunities, present innovative ideas, and lead pitches with confidence in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.

Hybrid working between home and office is offered, with flexible hours and clear progression routes. A competitive base salary plus uncapped commission and benefits package are provided.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in media sales and new business development.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure, target-driven environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience building and growing client partnerships across markets.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing opportunities and generating appointments to win new business in your local market.
• Building new and developing existing client relationships, ensuring you clearly understand the client’s business goals.
• Exploring the freshest ways of working across our broad range of products.
• Creating innovative ideas to deliver results and grow your client’s business.
• Thinking and doing things differently, ensuring we stand out in the industry against our competitors.
• Working across multi-disciplined teams to efficiently deliver results for our clients.
• Presenting creative pitches in a dynamic and engaging way.
• The delivery of agreed revenue targets, call rates, activity levels and standards of performance.

Skills

Sales excellence

Media sales experience

New business generation

Client relationship management

Tools

CRM software

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you ready to step out your comfort zone and make the next leap in your career?
Have you got the desire to use both your sales talent and media experience to help develop those around you?
Do you excel in new business generation and have a passion for customer retention and growth?
Then this could be for you ….
Here at Communicorp UK we put our people first, that’s why we offer great benefits like flexible working hours, career progression routes, wellness initiatives, learning and development opportunities, healthcare and much more.
We are home to some of the most exciting brands in UK radio including Capital in Scotland and South Wales, Heart in Yorkshire, Hertfordshire and North Wales plus Smooth in the North East, North West and East Midlands as well as Radio X 90's.
We want to hear from exceptionally talented media sales professionals who believe they have what it takes to be an Account Director (New Business Specialist) within our ambitious team at Smooth North West. Applicants should have a proven track record, understand the competitive media landscape and have the ability to work in a highly demanding team environment.
This is not a role for a low energy sales plodder looking for their next job. It is essential that you can display a deep desire to succeed in a competitive, target driven, sales environment. Your Commercial Director should be able to trust you to operate with integrity, bravery and passion at all times and colleagues should see you as an example of what outstanding performance looks like.

You will be responsibilities include:

• Sourcing opportunities and generating appointment to win new business in your local market.
• Building new and developing existing client relationships, ensuring you clearly understand the client’s business goals.
• Exploring the freshest ways of working across our broad range of products.
• Creating innovative ideas to deliver results and grow your client’s business.
• Thinking and doing things differently, ensuring we stand out in the industry against our competitors.
• Working across multi-disciplined teams to efficiently deliver results for our clients.
• Presenting creative pitches in a dynamic and engaging way.
• The delivery of agreed revenue targets, call rates, activity levels and standards of performance.

If you believe you have what it takes to be our next Account Manager, here’s what we can offer in return:

• Hybrid working between home and office
• Flexible working hours
• Career progression routes
• Learning and development opportunities
• 25 days holiday plus access to our holiday buy and sell scheme
• Pension
• Healthcare
• Competitive basic salary
• Uncapped commission structure
• Company car or car allowance