Advertising Director

Position Available at River Cities Reader

Posted March 2, 2008

Type of Position: Permanent Full-Time

The River Cities' Reader seeks a professional, highly organized and motivated Advertising Director to oversee the success of a small sales team responsible for selling display, classified and online advertising. The successful candidate will be a strong growth driven leader, outstanding communicator and proven strategic planner with a documented media sales performance history.

Responsibilities include : recruiting, managing and motivating sales team; developing and executing sales strategies to achieve budgeted goals and using Salesforce.com to manage sales team accountability, customer contacts, relationships and opportunities. Must be an effective oral and written communicator with a strong work ethic and proven track record.
Will manage a major account list, establish new major accounts and manage delegation of account lists and territories to sales team.

Please email cover letter and resume to Todd McGreevy, todd.mcgreevy@gmail.com.

The individual hired will work closely with and answer to the Publisher to achieve team wide advertising revenue goals.
This role requires an individual with strong advertising expertise, creativity and strategic vision and effective management and motivation skills.

Other duties will include :

1. Implement strategic work flow and sales processes to manage existing client relationships and grow new relationships via aggressive prospecting.
2. Build client relationships through developing promotions for advertisers with potential ROI and branding opportunities available by advertising with the River Cities' Reader.
3. Identify and analyze competitive advertising sales opportunities, product, and market dynamics to make recommendations on positioning strategies for the River Cities' Reader.
4. Manage and lead a Customer Service Rep to ensure adequate support for outside sales Account Execs in order for the Sales Team to meet weekly ad production deadlines, generate spec ad plans, prepare contract proposals, assist with collections, and implement existing and new marketing initiatives.

Compensation & Benefits
Competitive Base Salary
Sales Team Performance Bonuses
Paid Holidays and Sick Leave
Small Group Health Insurance Plan

Account Executive
We're looking for savvy, outgoing, talented people who can't live without the Reader, and who want to join the team that makes it happen every week.

If you can think on your feet, listen, multi-task, write well and carry a tune (well you don't really have to carry a tune)..... we're interested.

Top candidates will get a chance at a profitable career growing the Reader through a position in outside sales and marketing. All candidates must have a documented media sales performance history for consideration.

Email your resume and an erudite letter to Todd McGreevy, Publisher, at sales@rcreader.com

Internships 

The Reader accepts applications for internships on an ongoing basis. 

Sales & Marketing intern candidates, please contact Todd McGreevy - sales@rcreader.com

For a pdf with more information, click here. 

Graphic Design intern candidates, please contact Shawn Eldridge - shawn@rcreader.com

For a pdf with more information, click here.

Editorial intern candidates, please contact Jeff Ignatius - jeff@rcreader.com

For a pdf with more information, click here.

The River Cities' Reader Wiki site can be found here.

The mission of collaborative journalism -- including but not limited to Wiki projects -- on the River Cities' Reader Web site is:

To empower citizens and their community using Web tools that foster understanding, discussion, and collaboration.

The primary goals include :

- increasing the amount, usefulness, and openness of public debate on issues of civic and cultural interest;

- expanding community knowledge and wisdom; and

- improving public policy and projects.

For more information about Wikis, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki.

To read the Code of Conduct for Wikis on the River Cities' Reader Web site, go to http://wiki.rcreader.com/wiki/Code_of_Conduct.

Neither Tardo Hammer nor Charles Davis can explain their success in jazz.

Hammer, who has been called “the best jazz pianist you’ve never heard,” said he never planned on a music career when he was starting out in the late 1970s.

“To me it was ridiculous to think of a career,” he said in a phone interview this week. “There wasn’t a lot of work, and jazz was really not popular. ... You hardly saw an upright bass player, and almost every piano player had to get a Fender Rhodes. If you played ‘Straight Ahead,’ that was considered something that was just about to vanish off the planet, holding onto something that was ready to expire.

“I was thinking, ‘I’ll do this now because this is what I love to do. I’ll go where this is and see what happens. I’ll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.’”

Nearly 30 years later, Hammer has stumbled into that jazz career, performing regularly with singer Annie Ross and also releasing three discs as a bandleader. He’ll be playing in a quartet with the venerable saxophonist Davis at the Figge Art Museum later this week. (The pair will be joined by drummer Jimmy Wormworth and bassist Lee Hudson.)