Company Description
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.
We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.
Job Description
Nine Digital is looking for an Account Executive to work in our Digital Advertising Sales Team. You will need to be a self-starter that loves to own projects and take them through to completion, always looking to take initiative.
You will need to love working with a close-knit high performing team to manage digital marketing campaigns and respond to client briefs as required. You will work closely with a Sales Executive, involved in both pre and post sales work flows. The successful applicant will be given the excellent opportunity to work with your Group Business Manager on a bespoke development plan to upskill and prepare you for career progression with the company.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
In three months:
- Build strong relationships with your team and other key internal stakeholders.
- Ability to create campaign reports outlining key insights
- Support sales executives to manage and grow key accounts
In six months:
- Become proactive at putting ideas to your team and clients for mutual benefit.
- Oversee effective and accurate optimisations and delivery of campaigns.
- Manage day to day communication with the agency and ensure that work is delivered on time.
- Ability to prioritise many projects at once, and problem solve internally and with clients
- Understanding of the media landscape and Nine’s audio products
In 12 months:
- Complete understanding of the digital business and the wider digital publisher/ marketing ecosystem.
- Sales and management experience to further build career
- Ability to entirely own end to end sales process for a digital campaign and deliver key client growth
Qualifications
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Manage multiple projects and priorities with attention to quality, detail and results
- Plan, organise and co-ordinate activities so that deadlines are met
- Interact effectively at all levels within the account.
- Problem solving and taking initiative
Additional Information
Being part of our Nine Sales team means you will benefit from:
- Working for the largest media company in Australia, and being part of one of the largest advertising agency groups in Australia!
- Opportunity to work in a growing team at a fast paced, fun, high energy digital company, with market leading products
- You will work with a team of experienced sales executives learning all aspects of the digital marketing ecosystem
- Opportunity to build your skills by completing Sales Academy – our bespoke training and development program for Sales.
- Our fun, vibrant culture and large recognition program where we reward outstanding performance quarterly
- Competitive Sales Incentive Scheme that rewards and recognises performance & success
- Offices in the heart of North Sydney – within our building are our news and filming studios where all the action happens - plus views of the Harbour!
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.
