Account Manager - Smooth North West

Communicorp UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Career progression

Learning & development

25 days holiday + holiday buy/sell

Pension

Healthcare

Uncapped commission

Company car or car allowance

Job summary

Communicorp UK is seeking an Account Manager (New Business Specialist) to join the Smooth North West team, drive new business opportunities, and nurture client relationships in the local market.

You will source opportunities, present creative pitches, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver revenue targets. The role offers hybrid working, flexible hours, and benefits including uncapped commission and a company car or car allowance.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in media sales.
• Ability to build and grow client relationships.
• Experience in a fast-paced, target-driven sales environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing opportunities and generating appointments to win new business in your local market.
• Building new and developing existing client relationships to understand business goals.
• Exploring ways to use a broad range of products to deliver results.
• Creating innovative ideas to deliver client growth and stand out from competitors.
• Presenting pitches in a dynamic and engaging way and delivering revenue targets.

Skills

Media sales experience

Proven track record

Client relationship development

Team collaboration

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 Scotland who believe they have what it takes to be an Account Manager (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

This is an opportunity not to be missed.