Assistant Manager - Sales - Media

- Drive sales from a dedicated set of industry verticals

- Regularly contact, prospect for, and develop new advertising opportunities with key clients and agency stakeholders

- Be well connected with direct online advertisers and media agencies ( concept selling and not advertising selling)

- Manage clients from initial engagement to campaign completion to re-engagement

- Develop clear and consistent strategies to achieve the stated business goals and revenue targets

- Ensure a healthy funnel for the business at any point of time

- Independently implement the sales plan

- Maintain and update key business reports

- A professional with 2- 5 years experience, with minimum 2 years experience in ad sales & 1 year doing digital content sales

- A problem solver delivering creative content solutions to help brands with maximum outreach against their investment.

- Able to work with cross-functional teams. Effectively meet client commitments by working with teams across organisation - editorial, multimedia, social media, legal & finance.

- Manage client expectations while adhering to the highest editorial practice

- A pro at managing relationships - Ability to plan, schedule & effectively deliver as per commitments to each client. Ability to scale brand / agency partnerships year on year.

Self-motivated - Ability to work under high-pressure environments and maturity to understand the business needs at all points.

- A great negotiator, quick learner, thinker and doer

- Extremely proactive and ready to take initiative and run with new idea.

- An exceptional communicator with superlative written and oral communications skills,creativity, and attention to detail