Sales Account Manager - with Growth Opportunities

We are on the lookout for a capable Sales Account Manager to join our productive team at Time Out Group Plc in Sai Ying Pun.
Growing your career as a Full Time Sales Account Manager is an awesome opportunity to develop competitive skills.
If you are strong in leadership, communication and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Sales Account Manager at Time Out Group Plc today!

Sales Account Manager - Time Out Hong Kong

Location: Hong Kong
Department: Media Sales
Reporting to: Sales Director Role overview This is a key advertising sales role within the Time Out Hong Kong 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. 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: Responding to advertising briefs on time and on brief
Demonstrate consistently high external call rates; meet with your clients and agencies every week
Ongoing relationship management and new business development opportunities
Drive strategic discussion with internal and external stakeholder
Achieve both monthly and quarterly sales targets
Be seen as the sales representative in the Hong Kong market externally and internally with support from Senior Management. Requirements:

• 2-5 years experience in media sales or sales related roles
• Proven existing relationships within the advertising and media landscape, both agency and direct, at a top media organisation
• 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
• A solid understanding of how digital technology works and the ability to explain in ordinary and technical terms as appropriate
• An ability to passionately champion integrated marketing solutions, and articulate to clients how such projects can deliver on their needs Personal attributes

• Superior creativity and high problem-solving abilities when responding to agency briefs
• Excellent networking skills
• Not averse to contacting agencies, potential new clients (cold-calling) or previous clients
• Ability to set and manage sales priorities
• Ability to negotiate at high levels and pressured environments
• Ability to close a high number of sales with direct clients
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills
• Ability to articulate creative media ideas to content, product and sales audiences
• Clear desire to hit targets and to deliver rapid growth.

About Time Out

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to…

• Be commercially astute
• Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence
• Think globally
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Be a team player

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality business that inspires connection and joy by capturing the soul of the world’s greatest cities through its two divisions – Time Out Media and Time Out Market.

Time Out launched in London in 1968 with a magazine to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city. Today, Time Out’s professional journalists curate the best things to do, see and eat in 333 cities in 59 countries.

Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. From cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures the soul of the city.

The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into the most popular destination in the city with 4.1m locals and tourists visiting in 2019. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion in North America, with Time Out Market opening in five major cities in 2019: Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. In 2021, Time Out Market expanded into the Middle East with Time Out Market Dubai, and more Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline including Porto, London, Prague, Japan and more.

Time Out Group was named International Brand of the Year 2021 in the Campaign Publishing Awards – awarding bravery, editorial innovation and forward thinking. While Time Out Market won the Most Innovative Food & Beverage Concept Award at the Global RLI (Retail & Leisure International) Awards 2021

Benefits of working as a Sales Account Manager in Sai Ying Pun:

● Excellent benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Advantageous package