Ready to take on a new challenge in your sales career? Are you an ambitious sales professional hungry to exceed monthly sales targets? Do you have experience of selling to media agencies?
This is an exciting new role at the UK's premier audience engagement agency for the Publishing Industry. Gold Key Media work with iconic brands such as Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, Grazia, GQ, Financial Times, Heat, National Geographic, Men's Health, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan.
A new division of the business will be our selling product sampling services directly to FMCG brands such as Coca-Cola, Dove, Gillette wishing to sampling their products to a highly desirable professional audience through our network of magazine racks located in high profile corporate buildings in London, Birmingham and Manchester, such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, HSBC, American Express, Google, Sky, Adidas.
We are seeking a high calibre salesperson with an excellent network of contacts in this sector to spearhead this new growth area.
As our Business Development Manager / Product Sampling Sales Manager you will lead the way in selling Gold Key Media product sampling services to publishers, agencies and directly to brands. Your clear and timely bespoke sales proposals will be tailored around campaign objectives budgets.
You'll also be responsible for identifying new opportunities via new routes to market and through the development of new partnerships allowing us to drive additional revenue from our existing client base.
Through managing our on-going clients' accounts, you'll ensure prompt and effective communication in response to all queries and work closely with our Operational teams to ensure all requests are actioned within agreed time frames.
Reporting to our Business Development Director you'll provide weekly updates on clear strategic plans for growth including budget and revenue projections and key client targets you've produced.
Through representing Gold Key Media at industry events, together with social media, trade press and networking you will market our services to the relevant sectors.
Essential Requirements:
As our Business Development Manager / Product Sampling Sales Manager you will be able to demonstrate:

Business Development experience
Project management
Flexibility and adaptability
The desire to succeed at a new challenge
Goal orientation
Customer service
Achieving Sales Targets

Additional Salary Information:
Great training and flexible benefits.
About Our Company:
Established in 2001, Gold Key Media has grown to be the world's largest distributor of newspapers and magazines for hotels, offices and a wide variety of venues. We create bespoke magazine distribution solutions to reach target audiences. Our targeted approach to magazine distribution helps to boost circulation whilst delivering publications to the right audience at the right time. We represent over 300 international publishers, distributing over 60 million newspaper and magazine copies per annum across a complete range of international venues and global events.
Gold Key Media is part of the Frontline Group - the leading Magazine Distributor in the UK who continue to innovate the supply chain.
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