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As an Advance Local Account Executive with Cleveland.com, you will be part of a dynamic sales team driving advertising revenue for one of the country's largest privately-owned media companies. Your sales success will come from new business development efforts, as well as client growth, through our industry-leading digital and print advertising products. You'll be supported by our leadership team, our interactive sales and product training program, and our commitment to provide resources for your successful sales career.

In this role, you will:

• Achieve your sales goals by prospecting new business and developing existing accounts to grow our overall brand
• Meet with local business owners and decision-makers to uncover and understand their business needs and goals so that you can advise clients on our comprehensive product mix including print, digital, search, video, and mobile solutions
• Work with colleagues to design custom advertising and marketing solutions that fit your clients' needs
• Present solutions to clients, working collaboratively to achieve the product mix aligned to their goals
• Further your client relationships through retention and upselling
• Review campaign results, learn from data and celebrate your successes
• Work with our advertising fulfillment team to provide accurate information for each client campaign

For this position we're looking for candidates with:

• Proven success of increasing sales in a competitive marketplace, using a needs-based selling approach
• Experience in digital advertising would give you a head start
• Skills build on to effectively negotiate and close sales with our products
• Ability to build rapport and confidence with clients
• Excellent communication skills - to write, create and deliver effective presentations
• Self-motivation and resilience
• Ability to effectively organize your day, multi-task by pivoting to various sales activities to build your pipeline, and work under deadlines
• Familiarity with CRM sales management software experience, ideally SalesForce (we'll provide training)
• Solid skills in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in Power Point & Excel to create presentations and review data
• Bachelor's degree or a combination of education with related experience
• This job requires reliable transportation to meet with customers.