Digital Sales Marketing Consultant

Position: Digital Sales Marketing Consultant

Company: Shreveport Bossier Advocate

Location: Open to applicants from Shreveport-Bossier, Monroe/Ruston, Texarkana, and Longview, Texas markets.

About Us:

The Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, a part of Georges Media, is a leading media company offering a cutting-edge portfolio of advertising solutions to help our clients grow. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce while providing unique opportunities and career paths for our employees.

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced, energetic, and driven Digital Sales Marketing Consultant to join our team. The successful candidate will focus on selling the Advocate's full portfolio of digital marketing products, including SEO, SEM, Social Media, TikTok, GeoFencing, CTV/OTT, and much more. This position requires establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with key decision-makers internally and externally, presenting professionally to business owners/decision-makers, and articulating our solutions effectively.

What’s in it for you?

• FLEXIBILITY & UNCAPPED POTENTIAL
• Flexible work from home vs. in-office hours, Monday-Friday schedules
• Guaranteed base salary + uncapped monthly commissions from dollar one
• Career pathing
• Leadership that values feedback from all levels
• Autonomy over daily activity with the support of a strong team atmosphere to ensure your success
• Cutting-edge portfolio of advertising solutions to help your clients grow

Responsibilities:

• Work independently, making sound business decisions that drive revenue goal achievement while communicating with your manager each day to discuss strategy, forecasting, and other key issues.
• Demonstrate a complete understanding of product features and benefits, rates, and packages and explain them in a way to match recommendations to customer needs. Use training resources to become proficient in all advertising solutions and processes.
• Strategically prospect for new accounts, conduct needs assessments to determine customer needs, generate ideas and proposals, present recommendations, close the sale, and set client expectations.
• Analyze clients’ campaign objectives to prepare creative solutions by using all appropriate products and services to fit the advertisers’ budget and goals from our portfolio of advertising solutions (SEM, SEO, OTT, Video, OOH, Social, Email, Digital Display, Streaming Radio, DID, etc.)
• Meet with individual clients (monthly) to review schedules, budgets, and create new strategies.
• Monitor other media to identify business prospects, attend local or category business events for networking opportunities, and stay up to date with industry trends.

Qualifications:

• Some sales experience is ideal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong time management, organization, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Media, including digital advertising familiarity, is a plus but not required.
• Ability to work in a team setting.

Additional Information:

• We offer base pay, uncapped monthly commissions from dollar one, mileage reimbursement, cell phone allowance, and full benefits, including 401K options and vacation. Flex office time.
• Must have a valid driver's license and insurance.

The Advocate is an equal employment opportunity employer, committed to recruiting, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce while providing unique opportunities and career paths for our employees. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds and experience levels to apply.

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, Life, Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), Paternity Leave, PTO and 401k Retirement Savings company match.