Advertising Sales Executive

Job description / Role

Our client, a media and marketing provider with offices in different locations across the UAE, is currently looking for an Advertising Sales Associate. In this role, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Consult with company officials and sales departments in order to develop promotional plans.
• Prepare promotional plans, sales literature, media kits, and sales contracts.
• Identify new advertising markets, and propose products to serve them.
• Write copy as part of layout.
• Attend sales meetings, industry trade shows, and training seminars in order to gather information, promote products, expand network of contacts, and increase knowledge.
• Gather all relevant material for bid processes, and coordinate bidding and contract approval.
• Arrange for commercial taping sessions, and accompany clients to sessions.
• Write sales outlines for use by staff.
• Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and existing customers in order to sell new advertising programs, and to protect and increase existing advertising.
• Explain to customers how specific types of advertising will help promote their products or services in the most effective way possible.
• Maintain assigned account bases while developing new accounts.
• Process all correspondence and paperwork related to accounts.
• Deliver advertising or illustration proofs to customers for approval.
• Draw up contracts for advertising work, and collect payments due.
• Locate and contact potential clients in order to offer advertising services.
• Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services.
• Recommend appropriate sizes and formats for advertising, depending on medium being used.
• Inform customers of available options for advertisement artwork, and provide samples.
• Obtain and study information about clients’ products, needs, problems, advertising history, and business practices in order to offer effective sales presentations and appropriate product assistance.
• Determine advertising medium to be used, and prepare sample advertisements within the selected medium for presentation to customers.