Hybrid Account Executive, Outdoor Portfolio

Posted 5 months ago

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About the role

  • Account Executive managing full sales cycle for multiple brands in the Outdoor Portfolio. Selling sponsorships, advertising, and digital products while collaborating closely with event sales teams.

Responsibilities

  • Sell sponsorships, advertising, and digital products across multiple brands in the Outdoor Portfolio to meet new business and retention revenue goals
  • Utilize multiple channels to develop new business pipelines, including existing databases, industry networks, social media, and tradeshows
  • Effectively use Salesforce CRM to monitor growth and performance, including maintaining customer details and creating accurate forecasts
  • Collaborate closely with event sales teams on all brands to continuously analyze the needs of current clients as well as new products and industry trends to identify opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling
  • Relay challenges and opportunities to brand teams; collaborate to strategize revenue growth opportunities, solve client issues, and share competitive information
  • Deliver proposals fitting the needs of the customer to secure their business
  • Attend competitive or industry related events to stay connected with current clients and prospect for new opportunities
  • Engage with influential and advocate accounts, and seek out opportunities to gain industry knowledge and understand market complexities.
  • Maintain an understanding of functions that interface with sales, including contracts/payments/collections, operations, marketing, CRM and admin functions

Requirements

  • Experience selling b2b or b2c events and/or media products across multiple brands
  • Active listener and persuasive communicator, with the ability to effectively translate client needs into competitive proposals, negotiate, and close sales with executive-level presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and proactively identify resources to maintain industry knowledge; knowledge of the outdoor industry is a plus
  • Ability to build relationships and collaborate successfully within the sales team as well as with multiple cross functional groups (marketing, editorial, etc.)
  • Proactive, independent work style that demonstrates the ability to effectively prioritize, multitask, and identify potential challenge areas with limited oversight
  • Experience using Salesforce or a similar CRM dashboard to manage and prioritize work
  • Willing and able to travel overnight for up to 15-20% of the time

Benefits

  • unlimited vacation for exempt employees
  • flexible working locations
  • 401(k) plan with a company match
  • medical/dental/vision coverage with inclusive provisions including transgender services and fertility benefits
  • parental and caregiver leave
  • dependent, commuter and FSA benefits
  • professional development programs like Toastmasters
  • mental wellness tools such as weekly guided meditation programs

Job title

Account Executive, Outdoor Portfolio

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$65,000 - $75,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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