The Role
You will support an Account Manager as well as manage and service a portfolio of developing media agencies with a focus on increasing commercial revenue.
Responsibilities include
- Constant pitching for new business to maximise revenue streams.
- Negotiating airtime revenue schedules
- Develop excellent and productive contacts with agency personnel including Buyers and Planners.
- Sell across all Absolute Radio opportunities (including, sponsorship & promotions and digital).
- Work towards and meet sales targets.
- Delivery and maintenance of required administration procedures.
- To deputise for the Account Manager in his/her absence
- To help other Account Managers/Sales Executives when appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with all team members
Skills, Experience and Knowledge
- Previous experience with a media owner selling to agencies.
- Experience in selling radio preferred but not essential.
- History of successful pro-active sales pitches.
- Strong agency contacts with planners and buyers.
- Good understanding of customer brands.
- Proficiency in Word, Powerpoint and Excel
Personal characteristics
- Must have a passion for radio
- Creative, strategic thinker
- Excellent communication skills
- Self starter
- A flexible team player, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a sense of humour.
- Ability to build relationships across the business
- High level of written and oral communication
If you would like to be considered please send a full CV to:
Caroline Hinton, Head of HR, Absolute Radio
One Golden Square, London, W1F 9 DJ
Or e-mail: caroline.hinton@absoluteradio.co.uk
Closing Date: January 06 2012
Absolute Radio is committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Please indicate your disability on your application. This information is required
so that all who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the position
will be invited for interview.
Revised figures published today show that instead of flat growth in the summer, radio ad revenues actually increased.
350 brands spent over £60,000 on radio, the highest number on record, during the third quarter of 2011.
This is a rise of 10% over the same timescale last year.
Read more about the story on Arif Durrani’s Mediaweek blog
The Role
Reporting to the Technology Director, you will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Technology department including both the maintenance and development of Absolute Radio’s broadcast (on-air/IP) and IT infrastructure. This includes business and digital media systems, along with all studio facilities and transmission links.
Responsibilities include
- Day-to-day maintenance of all terrestrial and digital broadcasting, IT and office infrastructure, including studios, broadcast transmission links, core infrastructure servers, network equipment, telephony, internet
- connectivity and Disaster Recovery facilities.
- Day-to-day management of Genesys playout systems, PhoneBox and Klotz Vadis, ensuring a high level of uptime and a low level of failure for both systems.
- Manage and motivate the Technology team ensuring that members of your team are trained according to their expected responsibilities.
- Management of the Absolute Radio Support desk.
- Management of all telecoms, including broadcast and office telephony.
- Management of all broadcast distribution platform providers.
- Management of network security including firewalls and virus/spam protection.
- Working with members of your team, you will manage, co-ordinate and execute live sessions, outside broadcasts and events.
- Responding to out-of-hours broadcast and IT infrastructure issues when on call and at other times if calls have been escalated to you from your team.
- Resolving transmission issues including liaison with third party suppliers.
Skills and Experience
- A clear focus on customer service and the ability to identify and meet customer expectations.
- Needs to have the ability to form good, effective working relationships with all levels of staff, a record of producing accurate detailed reports, work to agreed standards, able to use initiative, work with minimum supervision and deliver to agreed timescales
- Knowledge and experience of the core Microsoft technologies including but not limited to Windows XP/7, Windows Server 2003/8, Active Directory, Exchange Server, etc in a VMWare virtualised environment.
- Knowledge and experience of installing, supporting and maintaining broadcast technology such as microphones, mixing desks, DAT, CD players, talkback systems, processors and effects equipment.
- Confidence with the cabling infrastructure found in a modern radio station including a clear understanding of balanced, unbalanced and digital audio, making up cables by hand, use of a soldering iron, experience with ‘Krone’ type cabling and patch bays.
- Previous experience with our specialist broadcast infrastructure, including Klotz Vadis digital studio infrastructure, the Genesys playout system and RCS.
- Experience of producing live radio and non-linear audio editing.
- Network infrastructure skills including an understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and security.
- A minimum of four year’s experience working with broadcast, IT systems and technology infrastructures is required as is previous management experience.
- Experience with some of our specialist business systems, including GES PlanIT, V3 and PlanIT traffic.
If you would like to be considered please send full CV to:
Caroline Hinton – Head of HR, Absolute Radio
One Golden Square, London, W1F 9 DJ
Or e-mail: caroline.hinton@absoluteradio.co.uk
Closing Date: 06 January 2012
Absolute Radio is committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Please indicate your disability on your application. This information is required
so that all who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the position
will be invited for interview.
She may only have been here for six weeks but new planner Kayli Franklin has proved herself to be an excellent addition to the Sales team.
As such it wasn’t a huge surprise when her efforts were recognised by one of the agencies on our patch. Simon Pearce, Head of Insight, arrived in reception today with colleague Claire D’Silva to present Kayli with RadioWorks Media Team’s quarterly “Outstanding Service Award” and a rather large bottle of champagne.
The award goes to the person who has gained the most points from their team’s vote across around 50 account workers in the industry. Kayli has shown her professionalism, diligence, calm manner and endless enthusiasm to storm to the front of the pack.
Good work Ms Franklin!
Rachel
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