Overall Objectives

Ensuring the company achieves and exceeds set advertising objectives, goals, and targets through personal contribution and teamwork.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Coming up with advertising strategies that ensure personal and departmental targets are met.
Building and sustaining market relations and linkages with the business community, advertisers and advertising agencies.
Achieving personal monthly sales targets.
Coming up with strategies to achieve personal targets and goals.
Regularly servicing direct and agency clients as assigned.
Cultivating and bringing in new business.
Coming up with good and professional proposals that will bring in new business such as advertorials, supplements and other creative non-traditional advertising ideas.
Developing an advertising client base according to sectors and come up with a strategy of follow-up to ensure we get business not already on board.
Come up with a strategy of bringing back on board clients who have advertised in the past but no longer do so.
Monitoring competition and ensuring a follow-up of all advertising business in the market.
Selling advertising space in a professional manner and according to company guidelines.
Ensuring collection of advertising materials in time.
Working closely with accounts department to ensure prompt collection of payment from clients.
At all times following company credit facilities and discounting regulations.
Maintaining good customer relations with both new and existing clients.
Coming up with creative concepts for advertising that is value adding by working closely with editorial department.
Ensuring individual targets are achieved on a monthly basis and giving weekly progress reports and monthly analysis of sales and projections.
Working together with the Marketing Manager in approving advertising during the creative and printing processes.
Familiarizing with all the activities of advertising and marketing department to enable you hold for your colleagues or head of the department when necessary.
Any other duty assigned by the management.