Sports Account Executive

This position has been filled - Job#: 453364911

  ESPN Radio 950 / Red Zebra Broadcasting
  Washington, DC
  Sales
  Posted/Updated: 01/29/18

Job Summary

Redskins Radio/ESPN 980 is searching for Sports Account Executives with a track record of success to sell effective sports marketing programs out of our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. We are seeking Media Sales professionals who have the creativity and marketing smarts to help high level corporate clients develop multiplatform sports oriented marketing campaigns.

The ideal candidate must be willing to work hard, stay organized and develop relationships with scores of companies – especially adept at creating new business. They must be driven to help their customers succeed.

Our team sells advertising across radio, television, digital, social and experiential platforms – many surrounding the most popular sports franchise in the area – the Washington Redskins! Also, important to our programs are our popular sports talk platforms including The Bram Weinstein Show, The Morning Blitz with Al Galdi, Cooley and Kevin with Chris Cooley and Kevin Sheehan, Inside the Locker Room with Doc Walker, Brian Mitchell and Scott Jackson, The Steve Czaban Show and ESPN Radio programming. ESPN 980 Sports Account Executives also get the opportunity to sell various play-by-play packages surrounding University of Maryland Football and Basketball. Candidate must be a self-starter with a consultative, proactive sales approach who can generate new business while expanding the existing base of client advertisers.

Responsibilities include:

  1. Job emphasis is on creating new business and up selling existing account lists.
  2. Sell Multiplatform Sports Marketing Programs across radio, television, digital, social and experiential platforms.
  3. Proactively prospecting and qualifying potential new advertising accounts.
  4. Present persuasive sales presentations to multi levels of targeted organizations.
  5. Comfort in successfully closing accounts in excess of six figures annually.
  6. Attain Quota assignment in excess of $1 Million.

Requirements:

  • Minimum of two to three years of advertising sales experience with proven success.
  • Determination when facing resistance
  • Digital sales experience
  • Desire to influence the thinking of others and gain agreement via logic and alternatives
  • Desire to be highly successful
  • A desire to be of service to others and help them succeed
  • Possess strong long and short term objectives and goals
  • Have the capacity to sense and establish a customer’s needs
  • High ethics and does what is right

 

Interested candidates should send a resume to [email protected].

 
 
Red Zebra Broadcasting is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status.


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