APL Media
Media Sales Executive - National Press
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APL Media is seeking a media sales executive to work across a variety of its prestigious national newspaper products, including The Telegraph, The Standard, and The Guardian.
APL Media has more than 25 years of industry experience and creates leading travel and lifestyle content. Our diverse portfolio spans print media, events, social, email, digital platforms, and broadcast. We're also the proud publishers of National Geographic Traveller (UK).
Based in Kentish Town, we invite you to join our dynamic team and sell across themes such as health and fitness, food, travel, homes and gardens, finance and legal, and seasonal festive subjects.
We are seeking an experienced sales executive with either general sales experience or someone specializing in print media sales to bolster our expanding national press team. The role will focus on developing new business relationships with senior decision-makers across various sectors, leveraging our comprehensive array of spreads and features published in leading UK newspapers.
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- Responsible for selling advertising, branded content, and advertorials across both print spreads and features, as well as digital platforms. There will be a focus on leveraging these mediums to generate leads and elevate brand awareness.
- Achieve and exceed monthly sales targets, with a particular emphasis on print media.
- Develop compelling sales presentations and proposals, focusing on spreads and features within national newspapers. Lead the development of commercially funded digital campaigns, specifically with regards to themes such as health and fitness, food, travel, homes and gardens, finance and legal, and seasonal subjects.
- Effectively monetize our diverse media platforms, responding swiftly to emerging opportunities in print media.
- Analyze market competition in print and propose creative, effective solutions.
- Uphold high levels of professionalism, even under tight deadlines.
- Exceptional organizational skills and report literacy.
- Continuously research current trends in print media and adapt strategies accordingly.
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Requirements:
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, both in writing and verbally.
- Resilient, ambitious, and an excellent team player with superior numerical skills.
- A proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets.
- Comprehensive understanding of the print media landscape and its various themes.
- Exceptional organizational skills.
- Self-starter with proficiency in lead sourcing and time management.
- A natural flair for sales.
Benefits:
- Basic salary coupled with unrivalled commission.
- Opportunities for additional bonuses based on page uplifts and both personal and team performance.
- Medicash healthcare plan, including discounted gym membership and mental health support.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Opportunity for a charity day with a chosen cause.
- One week office closure over Christmas.
- Regular social events.
- Summer hiking trip.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Regular training sessions.
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