Account Executive (Multiple Openings in the Athens, Circleville, Logan, OH areas)

Job Description

Department: Local Advertising

FLSA Status: Exempt

Status: Full-time

Job Reports To: Advertising Manager

Job Summary
The Account Executive carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: Meet or exceed sales objectives in sales are of responsibility by promoting strong customer service skill sets and selling multi-media advertising through professional selling techniques, product service, and maintaining a relationship with both short and long term customers.

Job Functions

The successful candidate must be a flexible, self-starters, attentive to details, diplomatic, able to provide direction, and able to multi-task. This position will work with different personality types and across a number of publications. Candidates for this position should have strong interpersonal skills and client orientation and exhibit an ability to work effectively with internal and external contacts as a team member as well as a team leader.

Essential Functions:

• Perform job duties and conduct self in accordance with company core values.
• Initiate and nurture effective, professional relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Support and achieve individual, and company goals
• Organized
• Acquire, retain, and up-sell new and existing client base
• Make collection calls
• Attends departmental meetings and company meetings as scheduled
• Maintain daily sales call log submitted to Advertising Manager daily
• Corresponding through email, telephone, and meeting with clients
• Expected to utilize various Social Networking tools for company business
• Learn and sell online products as they are introduced to the company

Minimum Requirements:

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years of sales experience. Reliable transportation required. Must maintain a current valid drivers license and current proof of vehicle liability insurance.

Technology Skills:

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is required.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred not required

Benefits:

• 6 Paid Holidays
• PTO with rollover per calendar year
• Health Coverage, choice of two plans, employee premium cost-shared by the company, coverage effective on the first of the month after 60 days of employment
• HSA, FSA: medical care, dependent care, and limited purpose
• Dental & Vision coverage
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability, premium paid 100% by the company
• Voluntary Life/AD&D
• $50,000.00 Basic Life/AD&D policy, premium paid 100% by the company
• Pet Insurance
• Legal
• ID Theft Protection

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.