Account Executive

Job Description

About WOIO:

WOIO-WUAB WOIO TV CBS 19, the CW 43 and Cleveland Telemundo are the affiliates serving Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. The station that is ''First, Fair, and Everywhere'' produces over 70 hours of News on a weekly basis! We are the market's leader with our First Alert Weather - having won the most accurate weather in Cleveland for over 18 years! We carry Browns Football, the NFL, NCAA March Madness, PGA, and the number one network in the nation with CBS on WOIO. We are proud to be one of the highest rated CW affiliates in the country with WUAB! Our digital products offer top rated weather, news, entertainment apps (CLE Weekends) and multiple digital products to reach quality customers. We also produce original content with our OTT offerings to the Greater Cleveland communities.

Job Summary/Description:

This position requires someone with 2-3 years' sales experience, and a high level of selling digital media. The position utilizes an audience-based sales approach, selling across all product platforms to provide marketing solutions to current and new customers. All candidates should have proven closing abilities, be skilled at cold calling, and can develop New Business.
Our Account Executive candidates will be enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated hunter, confident and will have an entrepreneurial spirit. If you excel at developing new clients, selling multi-platform solutions and creating unique ideas to market products, then you would make a great addition to our team.

Duties/Responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited:
- Meeting and exceeding monthly and quarterly sales goals
- Use and learn data based results
- Cold calling and prospect for new clients
- Sell & Close new clients
- Conduct thorough client needs analysis
- Present proposed strategic solutions and tactics
- Provide follow-up assessments of advertising effectiveness

Qualifications/Requirements:
- BA or BS in business marketing or advertising preferred
- 2-3 years of sales or marketing experience required
- Experience selling digital product strategies
- Excellent writing and communication skills, experience using MS Office products and CRM Software
- MVR check required

Qualified applicants, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopening, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your resume, cover letter and references

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqq2y6-18-191-234-62-42 in your application.