Senior Account Manager

at  Gaydio

FULL TIME, MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE, OFFICE BASED (POSSIBLE WFH 1 DAY A WEEK)

Salary - negotiable, depending on experience (OTE around £35-£40k)
If you’re passionate about selling, self motivated and interested in training people, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are Gaydio, the UK’s biggest radio station for LGBTQ+ people. We broadcast on FM in Manchester and Brighton and DAB Digital Radio across 12 cities to a weekly audited audience of over half a million people.
Due to our growth, we’re looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, strategically-minded and, above all, passionate person to join our team in Manchester as a Senior Account Manager.
You will manage a small team of one or two people as well as building your own portfolio of clients. The ideal person will have a background in selling media, ideally radio (although we’re still keen to hear from great candidates who’ve not sold radio before).

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To manage your own portfolio of accounts, with your own personal sales target
• To performance manage 1-2 Account Manager’s at our Manchester Office, this may include remote working staff
• To conduct coaching, feedback, one to ones and performance analysis for all team members
• To work with our leadership team to develop and maintain a sales plan for the 12 months ahead, identifying key activities and when they are to be delivered.
• To help develop and sell a range of packages including on and off-air advertising and sponsorship for the station, often by making new approaches to suitable organisations
• To assist with recruitment to maintain and expand the sales team in due course

PLEASE ONLY APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU CAN DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU MEET THE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA ABOVE.

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As the ideal person for this role you can demonstrate;

• Experiencing of selling media advertising/digital products or events sponsorships (essential)
• A strong working knowledge of the business community in Manchester (desirable)
• An understanding how advertising agencies work and the difference between servicing direct and agency clients - ideally with existing contacts to get stuck into (desirable)
• You have experience of planning and managing your own workload and that of teams as well as coaching teams (essential)
• Experience of line management (such as conducting performance reviews and staff related HR functions) (essential)
• You can describe the relationship between achievement of KPIs and revenue targets
• You can spot opportunities and turn this into income
• Creativity in responding to client briefs
• You are a skilled negotiator, both inside the organisation and with our customers
• You are able to work to tight deadlines in a pressurised environment
• Good attention to detail
• An ethos of continual improvement, with clear examples how that works in practice
• Good numeracy skills (minimum GCSE standard)
• You have experience of using basic computer software and tools
• You have experience of using Salesforce (desirable)
• Is willing to undertake training and development as and when required
• Has an understanding of the needs and lifestyles of LGB&T peopl