Sales Executive

News UK; Northern Ireland; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in Northern Ireland is seeking a Sales Executive to drive advertising campaigns for local businesses. You will manage client relationships, maximize revenue opportunities, and work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate has media industry experience, strong communication skills, and a positive approach. This role offers a competitive salary, commission, and various employee benefits, including training and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary + car allowance + commissions

25 days holiday per year

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary

Paternity leave up to 2 weeks

Bikes for Work scheme

Wide range of training available

Qualifications

• Sales Executive with experience in advertising and media.
• Positive, self-motivated, and outgoing individual.
• Ability to influence and maintain long-lasting client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage client list and generate new clients.
• Maximise revenue opportunities across various media.
• Creative selling of sponsorships and promotions.
• Contribute to competitive commercial package creation.
• Attend client meetings and support the Sales Team.

Skills

Sales experience

Media industry understanding

Effective communication skills

Ability to build relationships

Self-motivated and driven

Confident in a fast-paced environment

Job description

Job Description

The Team

U105, a personality led station that broadcasts from the heart of Belfast with over 253,000 people tuning in each week across Northern Ireland for a combined total of 2 million hours per week. U105 offers a superb mix of classic pop hits from the 80s through to melodic contemporary artists, soft rock, classic/new country and the present day.

Our people are the driving force behind our business, translating our editorial and audio content, listeners and readership into revenue through successful and innovative advertising campaigns that really do achieve their objectives.

Your Role

Reporting to the Sales Manager, you will work on behalf of local businesses to reach the biggest potential audience with the strongest and most persuasive advertising campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Manage a client list of existing businesses as well as generate new clients to grow year‑on‑year revenue and the customer base.
• Maximise revenue opportunities across our audio, digital and press audiences while meeting agreed targets and activities.
• Creative selling of sponsorships and promotions.
• Contribute to the creation of competitive commercial packages.
• Regularly attend face‑to‑face meetings with clients and prospects.
• Prepare proposals and client correspondence while ensuring that clients are aware of rates and commercial deals at all times.
• Attend sales meetings and support other members of the Sales Team as and when required.
• Be involved in client events when appropriate.
• Keep abreast of developments in the media and commercial advertising sectors.
• Monitor competitive activity on other stations and across other media.

Qualifications

• You are a Sales Executive who is a positive, self‑motivated, outgoing individual who thrives under pressure and enjoys working in a fast‑paced environment.
• You will have experience of working in sales or advertising with an understanding of the media industry in Northern Ireland.
• Knowledge of developments in media and commercial advertising sectors within Northern Ireland plus the wider business marketplace.
• Confident working in a fast‑paced environment and able to react positively to change.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self‑motivated, dedicated and driven.
• You will have an ability to influence and build long lasting relationships.
• Full driving license.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary + car allowance + commissions.
• On‑the‑job training and development to enable you to be the best you can be.

In addition we also offer:

• 25 days holiday per year.
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & pension.
• Paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Bikes for Work scheme.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, employee‑led networks and support for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.

We are Wireless Ireland: We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts, along with our web and social pages, play a massive part in our listeners' lives. We engage, we inform and we entertain with our market‑leading products. In Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urban centres, and we create award‑winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of News Broadcasting with radio stations like Virgin Radio, talkSPORT, Times Radio and talkRADIO which are redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond. Wireless Ireland is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK & Ireland our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.