Join Our Team as a Regional Account Manager – Brainerd Lakes Area
Ready to grow your sales career while making a real impact in the Brainerd Lakes area business community? The Brainerd Dispatch and Forum Communications Company are seeking a driven, relationship-focused Regional Account Manager to lead business development efforts across both the Brainerd Lakes area and our broader regional market footprint. This is your chance to partner with local and regional businesses, help them tell their stories, and connect them with powerful advertising and marketing solutions that deliver results! This role will office out of the Brainerd Dispatch location, and become a trusted resource in one of Minnesota’s most vibrant and fast-growing regions.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain strong relationships with existing clients, while proactively pursuing new business throughout the Brainerd Lakes area and surrounding markets.
- Present our full suite of advertising and agency products, including print, digital, and multimedia solutions.
- Expand awareness and adoption of Forum Communications Company’s agency services.
- Act as a key point of contact for regional and national advertising agencies.
- Travel throughout your sales territory to strengthen partnerships and uncover new revenue opportunities.
- Deliver exceptional customer service rooted in challenge-navigating, integrity, responsiveness, and professionalism.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or a related field preferred.
- 3–5 years of sales and/or marketing experience, ideally with hands-on experience selling digital advertising products.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to simplify and sell creative solutions.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to work under deadlines, multitask, and manage multiple projects.
- Experience with print advertising is a plus.
- Valid driver’s license, insurable driving record, and required vehicle insurance.
Compensation
Expected compensation for this role is between $90,000 and $130,000/year, based on qualifications and experience.
About Forum Communications Company
We are a family-owned media and technology company that has been delivering trustworthy, quality journalism and innovative business solutions for more than a century. While storytelling remains central to who we are, we’ve evolved into one of the Upper Midwest’s largest and most forward-thinking media organizations.
Today, we lead in print and digital news, technology, telebroadcasting, printing, and agency advertising - with teams driven by passion, purpose, collaboration, and innovation. At FCC, you’ll find an inclusive, creative, and supportive culture; a safe, welcoming workplace; opportunities for professional development and growth; and a team that believes in working hard, achieving big goals, supporting one another, and having fun. Come for the perks. Stay for the people.
Benefits for Full-Time Employees (and 32+ hour benefited roles)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid short-term disability and life insurance
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity options
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- Retirement benefits
- Generous PTO and paid volunteer hours
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. FCC currently does not offer employer sponsorship.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Forum Communications Company, our legacy is deeply rooted in harnessing the power of communication to connect and inform people in the communities we serve. Since 1917, everything we do is driven by creating and sharing information, ideas and insights.
Today, we’re a leading media and technology company that’s home to a family of people whose passion and purpose is fueled by collaboration and innovation. We believe in supporting each other, working hard toward common goals, and having fun.
Come for the perks: Excellent employee culture, competitive pay, comprehensive benefits package, generous paid time off (PTO), paid holidays and paid time off for your birthday, 401(k), company-paid volunteer time, health and wellness initiatives as well as paid parental and pregnancy disability leaves.
Stay for the people: Family-owned and operated since 1917. At Forum Communications Company you'll find development and growth opportunities, an inclusive and creative culture, and a safe working environment. You'll also work alongside employees of all ages and backgrounds, and engage in positive collaboration.
