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Account Executive

Fort Myers, FLOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)Posted 12 days ago

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Required skills

  • media sales
  • digital sales
  • new business
  • non-traditional business
  • negotiation
  • consultative customer-focused
  • goal-structured organization
  • team player
  • business owners
  • qualitative research

Nice to have

  • Spanish Bilingual

Role summary

Gulf Coast News in Fort Myers, Florida is seeking an energetic and experienced Account Executive to build media and marketing solutions for advertising agencies and local businesses. This role offers an opportunity to grow with the company, working with a talented team and enjoying a desirable market. The Account Executive will report to the Local Sales Manager and be responsible for producing revenue across all platforms, prospecting new businesses, developing new revenue streams, forming strategic partnerships, managing client accounts, and delivering sales proposals to achieve individual sales goals.

Gulf Coast News in Fort Myers, Florida is looking for an energetic and experienced Account Executive who is looking to grow with an amazing company. This position offers an incredible opportunity for a person who can build media and marketing solutions to both advertising agencies and to local businesses in one of the country’s most desirable markets. If you are motivated by an excellent product, great compensation, and working with a talented team of professionals, and an abundance of sunshine, look no further. We will provide the tools for powerful multi-platform marketing solutions to create lasting partnerships and to grow our client base. You will report to the Local Sales Manager.

Responsibilities

  • Produce revenue across all available platforms
  • Prospect, contact and present to new businesses
  • Develop new revenue through local business development
  • Form strategic and market partnerships
  • Manage an active account/client list
  • Conceptualize, create, and deliver sales proposals that are consistent with station strategies
  • Achieve individual sales goals while contributing to our dynamic sales team
  • Requirements

  • 1+ years in media or digital sales, or similar sales field
  • Experience with the development of new business/non-traditional business
  • Have strong negotiation skills
  • Experience in a consultative customer-focused business atmosphere
  • Accountability within a goal-structured organization
  • Must be a team player
  • Experience selling to business owners
  • Understand and use qualitative research to further sales effort
  • Spanish Bilingual Preferred
  • Related military experience will be considered
  • Values in Action

    At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That’s why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.

    Benefits

    Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

  • Medical | Dental | Vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Emotional Wellness Support
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • LGBTQ+ Health Services
  • Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
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