Publication: Time out Singapore

Position: Account Manager

Publication: Time Out Singapore

Employer: Time Out Group

Location: CBD, Singapore

• Singapore-based role • Full-time • Incredible opportunity to accelerate your career with the world’s leading lifestyle publisher

About the employer: Time Out is a trusted global platform that inspires and enables people to experience the best of a city. Operating in 108 cities across 39 countries, it has an average monthly global audience reach of over 137 million across all platforms. Time Out Singapore is a multi-platform arm of Time Out Group. It produces a monthly magazine, an online platform, videography, photography, social networking and events management. It is the most trusted source in lifestyle, events and entertainment in Singapore.

Summary: This is a key advertising sales role within the Time Out Singapore sales team, requiring a creative, high-energy and client-facing individual who can drive and monetise both agency and direct client relationships with local partners.

Responsibilities: The role requires you to increase digital, print advertising, event sponsorships and branded content sales via proactive outbound calls, maintaining relationships with agencies, customised and creative solutions in response to agency briefs, and ensuring each client enjoys satisfaction in all aspects of their experience with Time Out. This role bears ultimate responsibility for growing revenue in his/her allocated sectors, client satisfaction and will maintain an active, overseeing presence throughout the planning and execution of any creative solution. Servicing our external customers is an essential part of this role and therefore someone with excellent interpersonal skills is required. Responsibilities include responding to advertising briefs on time and on brief, demonstrating consistently high external call rates, maintaining ongoing relationships and developing new business development opportunities, driving strategic discussion with internal and external stakeholders, achieving both monthly and quarterly sales targets, and being seen as the sales representative in the Singapore market externally and internally with support from Senior Management.

Requirements: Candidate should have 2-5 years experience in media sales or sales related roles, as well as proven existing relationships within the advertising and media landscape, both agency and direct, at a top media organisation. Also required are a proven track record in stakeholder management at multiple levels, a passion for the media industry and willingness to represent the Time Out brand at networking events, demonstrated success in managing complex deals, excellent presentation and communication skills, appreciation and ability to articulate how integrated marketing solutions deliver solid solutions of clients marketing and communications needs and a solid understanding of how digital technology works and the ability to explain in ordinary and technical terms as appropriate. Candidate must work well in a team.

To apply: Email Time Out Singapore with your CV and a covering letter to [email protected].