Topjob are currently recruiting for a Senior Account Manager to join an established educational magazine publishers based within Colchester.

Salary: £24,000 - £27,000 per annum dependent upon experience.

Purpose of the role:

Maintain current clients of the companies whilst upselling other advertising opportunities to generate magazine in print and online. The focus will be to work with clients to upsell a specific online platform. This will be carried out by communicating with existing and new businesses via telephone, videoconference, and email - selling, delivering and reporting on their advertising campaigns through our platform targeting education professionals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain magazine advertising revenue
• Speak and build rapport with existing advertisers
• Discuss and send proposals to existing advertisers
• Upsell a specific platform to clients
• Close and secure proposals with advertisers
• Ensure advertisers have been credit checked and signed their booking confirmation
• Chase artwork and proof where necessary
• Maintain and manage CRM system
• Achieve daily call times targets
• To ensure that all KPI’s are met
• Support team training
• Deliver new ideas and concepts
• Build and present multi-channel proposals to clients

Skills required

• Sales experience
• Excellent telephone manner
• Motivated
• Able to build rapport quickly
• Great customer service/relation skills
• Team working abilities
• Strong time management skills
• Videoconferencing
• Desire to work in a fast paced team environment and enjoy the buzz and momentum of what a sales role provides!

Salary / Benefits

• Generous Health Cash Plan
• Up to 9.5% Pension Contribution
• Death in Service payout scheme
• Health Club discounts including Pure Gym and David Lloyd
• Cycle to work scheme with secure onsite bike storage
• Groupwide discounts for products and services from DC Thomson brands
• Up to 25 days holiday (increases from 20 days with tenure) In addition to annual leave entitlement, your Birthday as paid holiday after your first continuous year with the business