This is a hybrid role combining home working, office collaboration and face-to-face client meetings. If you're commercially minded, enjoy winning new business and want to develop a career in digital sales, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop new business opportunities across your territory.
- Meet prospective clients via telephone, video and face-to-face appointments.
- Build strong relationships with local business owners and decision-makers.
- Understand client objectives and recommend tailored digital marketing solutions.
- Prepare and present compelling proposals.
- Manage and grow existing client relationships.
- Generate leads through prospecting, referrals and networking.
- Achieve sales targets and maintain an active pipeline.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience in B2B sales, ideally in a media, marketing, saas, or tech environment.
- Confident in building relationships and winning new business.
- Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
- Commercially aware with a consultative approach to sales.
- Self-motivated, organised and target-driven.
- Comfortable working across telephone, virtual and face-to-face sales channels.
- Knowledge of digital marketing, advertising, media or SaaS solutions would be advantageous.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use.
- Able to travel within the territory and attend the local office regularly.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + uncapped commission
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
- Holiday buy scheme for extra flexibility
- Structured career progression & ongoing training
- Pension plan
- Employee Helpline counselling and advice
- Perks & discounts including:
- Gym membership
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care
- Retail discounts
- Team building days & annual volunteer charity day
About
A name you can trust - we’ve been a part of your community for generations.LOCALiQ is the name for all that Newsquest Media Group does today, from trusted local newspapers and websites to digital marketing services that can help you reach new customers as you’ve never been able to before.LOCALiQ is the name that combines your trusted local news brand with digital marketing.It hasn’t replaced the name of your local Newsquest newspaper and its website, but it encompasses everything we can offer.Those services include online advertising and best-in-class digital marketing, backed by data gathered from our 1.5 million local campaigns and 45 million monthly users.Put our experts to work for you, and we believe you’re hiring the best marketing partner a business can have.
Skills Required
- Experience in B2B sales, ideally within media, marketing, SaaS, or technology
- Ability to build relationships and win new business
- Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Commercial awareness and a consultative sales approach
- Self-motivated, organised, and target-driven
- Comfort working across telephone, virtual, and face-to-face sales channels
- Knowledge of digital marketing, advertising, media, or SaaS solutions
- Full UK driving licence
- Access to a vehicle for business use
- Ability to travel within the territory and attend the local office regularly
What We Do
We are a media company with a difference. We are committed to bringing a voice to your region by investing in a passionate team of journalists who proudly serve their communities by sharing authoritative news that readers trust. Our sales teams provide local businesses with highly responsive digital advertising and marketing solutions. We are one of the largest regional news publishers in the UK and have a portfolio of more than 250+ local news brands and magazines online and in print. With an online audience of 41 million users a month and 7 million readers a week in print, our content is read by a substantial proportion of the UK population. In addition to our local news brands, we own a number of digital pure play and specialist media businesses such as s1jobs and s1homes, Exchange & Mart, and Newsquest Specialist Media. We also own LOCALiQ, an award-winning digital marketing agency that specialises in driving more leads, increasing online growth and generating return on marketing investment on behalf of thousands of UK SMBs. Our parent company is Gannett Inc, the largest news publisher in the US. Gannett is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
