Account Manager - Smooth North East

Communicorp UK; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Learning & development

Holiday scheme

Pension

Competitive salary

Uncapped commission

Job summary

Communicorp UK Ltd is seeking an Account Manager (New Business Specialist) for Smooth Radio in the North East. You will drive new business opportunities, build relationships, and craft innovative campaigns across our radio portfolio.

You should have a proven media sales track record and thrive in a competitive, target-driven environment. The role offers hybrid working, development opportunities, 25 days holiday, pension, and an uncapped commission structure.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in media sales in the North East.
• Understanding of the competitive media landscape.
• Ability to meet revenue targets in a target-driven sales environment.

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

New business generation

Media sales

Client relationships

Pitch presentations

Account management

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 in the North East who believe they have what it takes to be an Account Manager (New Business Specialist) within our ambitious team at Smooth Radio.

Applicants should have a proven track record, understand the competitive media landscape, and display a deep desire to succeed in a competitive, target-driven sales environment.

You will be responsibilities include:

• 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.

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
• Learning and development opportunities
• 25 days holiday plus access to our holiday buy and sell scheme
• Pension
• Competitive basic salary
• Uncapped commission structure