Sales And Marketing Intern

The role of a media sales executive is to sell advertising space to clients and manage the relationship with these – including by working with colleagues to ensure that the design and placement of the adverts meet the wishes of the client.

Responsibilities:

• Contacting businesses and other potential clients to source new leads – this could be through phoning, emailing, visiting in person and/or contacting on social media

• Maintaining strong relationships with existing clients by making sure they are aware of all the advertising solutions offered by your employer and working with your colleagues (such as executors) to ensure the client is happy with what is offered.

• Initiating and executing the full sales cycles right from lead generation to client onboarding

• Monitor, analyze sales, market trends and develops an effective strategic plan

• Staying in the know about different forms of communication (eg some companies look for candidates who are knowledgeable about social media)

• Sweep the market to find briefs and upcoming campaigns and create top-of-line solutions in tandem with the brand solutions team

• Meeting sales targets.

Key Skills:

1. Strong negotiation and influencing skills

2. Project management and time management ability

3. Attention to detail

4. Resilience

5. Self-motivation

6. Commercial awareness

7. Ability to collaborate effectively with others.

Qualifications:

• Graduate/ Postgraduate/ MBA/ PGDBA (Sales/ Marketing)

• Experience in dealing with brands directly in a college for fest sponsorship is a must. Agency experience is a plus.

• Be a top performer throughout your college career, with nothing less than 100% delivery on targets.

• We value great performance and honesty