Jobs at:
The East African Ltd

Vacancy title:
Business Executives

Deadline of this Job:
15th October 2016

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
The East African Ltd is a subsidiary of the Nation Media Group. The NMG companies include the Daily Monitor Newspaper, The East African Newspaper, the Daily Monitor E-paper (Electronic Edition), 93.3 KFM, Dembe FM and Ennyanda (a Luganda weekly sports newspaper).

The East African Newspaper is seeking to recruit qualified and competent persons to fill the positions of BUSINESS EXECUTIVES.

Job Purpose: The successful candidates shall be responsible for growing advertising sales volumes in order to generate revenue and achieve their business targets.

Main Responsibilities

• Aggressively grow advertising business by conducting regular sales pitches to potential and existing clients.
• Coordinate the production of clients adverts for approval within the set deadlines
• Collect dues on all advertising space sold on credit with in the approved timelines
• Maintain and grow relationships with the representatives of major advertisers and follow-up to resolve issues to the satisfaction of the customers.
• Develop daily, weekly and monthly prospects of potential clients
• File weekly reports with the Business Manager on weekly activities and itineraries.
• Coordinate supplements for TEA clients. Ensure that adverts and content for supplements are done, ready and approved for production within the set deadlines.
• Provide monthly sales and collection reports to the Business Manager. .
• Handle all customer complaints and give feedback to ensure customer satisfaction and growth of TEA client portfolio.

Qualifications & Experience

• A Diploma and/ or a Bachelor's degree in any business-related course or equivalent qualification
• Good Computing skills
• At least 2 years’ working experience as a sales person,
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Passionate for results and numbers driven
• Impeccable integrity
• Good proposal writing skills
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• Strong customer focus
• Good planning and organizing skills

Job application procedure
lf you believe that you are the person we are looking for, please submit your application, detailed CV and copies of academic documents with a daytime telephone number by 15th October 2016 to: The Head of Human Resource, Monitor Publications Ltd. P.0. Box 12141, Kampala, Uganda.
Or via email to: hrm@ug.nationmedia.com
Please Note that only shortlisted candidates will he contacted.