Digital Sales Manager

Job Description

Digital Sales Manager - WALA

About WALA:

WALA FOX10 News is a local media organization producing news, weather and original content for the Gulf Coast. Located in Mobile, AL. WALA is the oldest existing television station in the state of Alabama. FOX10 takes pride in a winning culture and is committed to the community.

Job Summary/Description:

The Digital Sales Manager will lead the station's efforts in the development of new and incremental digital business; reduce digital churn while coaching, training, mentoring, and leading a senior laden team of local Account Executives. This position requires a person that is comfortable out of the office making calls and assisting AE's to develop strong relationships with current and future clients. The DSM will utilize the vast amount of experience from the GSM, LSM, & NSM to provide a unified approach to client solutions. We are a multiplatform solution to all clients. Candidates must be able to demonstrate a consistent and successful track record of leadership in delivering strong sales results.

Expected to help increase digital revenue with the sales team by doing the following:
* Provide training on a regular basis with the end goal of all AE's having the knowledge to provide digital solutions to all clients.
* Provide or assist in strategy when deciding what to pitch to a client and prepare the recommendation page along with supporting slides
* Pitch the digital products in conjunction with the AE.
* Coordinate proper digital reports and when necessary deliver to clients with explanation and changes to campaign when warranted.
* Responsible for providing optimization suggestions to increase effectiveness for campaigns
* Responsible for making sure digital campaigns are running correctly. This includes giving all necessary information needed to the Sales Assistants for campaigns to launch correctly, checking vendor sites regarding campaigns running accurately, checking TapClicks for performance and making sure campaigns will fully deliver each month on both core and extended products
* Responsible for preparing and communicating monthly digital statistics for all core platforms to the team

Qualifications/Requirements:
* Candidate should have a minimum of two years digital sales experience with a digital or broadcast company
* Knowledge of MS Office products

Are you energetic, positive and goal-oriented? Please join our team, send your cover letter and resume, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, 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-rnm1eo-3-144-232-160-42 in your application.