Advertising Sales Manager Job at StarTimes | Ajira Mpya April 2020

Advertising Sales Manager 

VACANCY – ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER 1 Post

Leading Digital TV industry player StarTimes is seeking a highly motivated and skilled professional who is suitably qualified to fill in the position of an Advertising Sales Manager.

Job Title: Advertising Sales Manager
Reports To: Advertising Sales Director
Department: Media – Advertising Sales
Locations: Dar es Salaam

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain relationships with clients and advertising agencies. Having rich clients resources would be preferred.
• Cultivate relationships with clients, gain deep insight into their business and ultimately provide solutions to their marketing and advertising.
• Analyze and integrate our resources, creating new ideas on how to expand advertising and sponsorship revenue and achieve the sales target.
• Collect the information and analyze Tanzania market and our competitors, develop the sales strategies and plans.
• Selling advertising airtime, commercial productions.
• Providing a holistic client service relations plan in order to optimize advertising budgets and achieve set revenue targets to clients so as to maximize broadcasting sales volumes and revenue targets.
• Any other tasks assigned by management.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

• Achieves assigned sales quota in the designated partner accounts.
• Meets assigned expectations for profitability.
• Completes partner account plans that meet company standards.
• Maintains high partner satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.

ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT:

Reports to the Advertising Sales Director.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in relevant area from an accredited institution.
• More than 5 years’ experience in TV advertising sales.
• Should have a core understanding of media industry and marketing management, especially the media environment/ facts in Tanzania.
• Having the working experience in advertising agencies would be preferred, which should include an in-depth familiarity with the Tanzania agencies.

SKILLS:

• Should have strong and comprehensive analytical and effective execution abilities.
• Should be good at strategic thinking – to develop the business strategies that focus on short, medium and long term.
• Should possess the ability and skill to write the proposals to meet the clients’ needs.
• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office Packages and other relevant marketing software.
• Interviews will be done on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Kindly send your CV Application Letter to hr-dept@startimes.com.cn before 25th April, 2020