Job Description :
The Media Sales team at Dow Jones is responsible for driving advertising revenue and building strategic partnerships across our world-class portfolio of brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and more. Our team works closely with agencies and clients to develop innovative, data-driven advertising solutions that help brands connect with influential and highly engaged audiences.
The Associate Client Partner is a developmental level sales position focused on the Enterprise category that will focus on the prospecting of new and lapsed clients. Through industry and sector research, this role will work to create sales pitches for potential new advertising partners to grow accounts. The Associate Client Partner will help grow these new accounts into larger, more frequent advertisers. Once developed into larger, more strategic accounts to be managed by Client Partners.
You Will:
- Compile research on new business opportunities including lapsed accounts and inbound business
- Identify and develop new advertisers
- Build relationships and develop a significant account list of advertisers and agencies through cold calls, trade networking events, and leads generated by associates, trade marketing and the media kit
- Develop and manage sales pipeline
- Maintain an active schedule of face-to-face appointments and prospecting calls
- Maintain a spreadsheet of active accounts and revenue forecasts
- Develop industry expertise and provide the larger team with updates on current trends, news, competitive analysis and advertising opportunities
- Achieve revenue targets for your territory
You Have:
- 3+ years of experience in a media or sales role
- Enterprise experience preferred
- Strong prospecting, presentation, and selling skills
- A consultative approach and the ability to comfortably liaise both internally and externally
- Previous experience supporting sales representatives with a large book of business or personally maintaining accounts
- A demonstrated ability to grow new and more transactional accounts
- Proven ability to assist in the development of complex print and digital campaigns
- Demonstrated success exceeding sales quotas and goals
- Prior Media Sales experience
- Superior verbal and written communication skills are essential
- Knowledge of Google Suite products
- A demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective business relationships is essential
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Insurance Plans
- Lifestyle Programs & Wellness Resources
- Education Benefits
- Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program
- Financial Health Programs
- Cybersecurity Protection
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - Media SalesJob Category:
SalesUnion Status:
Union roleBase Pay Range: 70,000 - 90,000
We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in a media or sales role
- Strong prospecting, presentation, and selling skills
- Consultative approach and ability to liaise comfortably with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience supporting sales representatives with a large book of business or personally maintaining accounts
- Ability to grow new and transactional accounts
- Experience assisting in the development of complex print and digital campaigns
- Demonstrated success exceeding sales quotas and goals
- Prior media sales experience
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of Google Suite products
- Ability to build and maintain effective business relationships
- Enterprise experience
What We Do
When you join Dow Jones, you become part of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, and video --including some of the widest-read and most-respected brands, like The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource. Our products inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world's commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and prosperity. We enlighten and inspire audiences around the globe with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.
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