Contact Name/Email: Rob Worden, Director of Sales, RobWorden@ClearChannel.com
Essential Duties:
- Prospect, market, sell and service advertising air time and non-traditional revenue events on Sacramento cluster of stations. KFBK, KGBY, KHYL, KSTE.
- Negotiate business based on industry ratings and conceptual sale in order to maximize station revenue and share within parameters set by station management.
- Achieve revenue and share goals set by Director of Sales.
- Develop new advertisers by soliciting area businesses.
- Service clients to maintain positive working relationships.
- Prepare sales orders and production requests in timely manner.
- Resolve billing discrepancies and assist in collections of past due accounts.
- Monitor competitive media to continually prospect for new account leads.
- Provide regular reports to VP of Sales regarding prospective sales orders, daily call sheets, itineraries, new prospect lists, forecasts, and competition analysis.
- Follow station/company practices/policies for processing, invoicing, calculation of sales.
- Adhere to minimum standards of performance as established by VP of Sales.
- Develop account list from various sources.
- Conceive and execute written proposals.
Required Skills/Education & Certification:
- College education preferred.
- Background in related media sales with a minimum of five years’ experience.
- Outstanding marketing/presentation skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Must possess understanding of ratings services and sales skills and techniques.
- Conversant in radio broadcast vocabulary.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of FCC rules and regulations relating to advertising copy.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
Clear Channel Communication's recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Clear Channel Communications may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, Internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
Equal Employment Opportunity. Clear Channel Communications strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, sex, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation or preference, medical condition (including pregnancy) or protected disability where it is unrelated to the ability to perform a job, or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, or any other category prohibited by federal, state, or applicable local law, regulation, or ordinance.