Advertising Sales Executive

Do you love working in sales?

Are you outgoing and charismatic?

Are you eager to earn some fantastic, unlimited commissions - every single month?

Are you ready to join a winning team?

If the answer to all of the above is YES, then you should apply for this new role within Evo Media Group in East Kilbride. 

Evo Media Group:

At Evo Media Group, we provide an unrivalled marketing platform and community for hair and beauty professionals, product innovators, and leading global brands to integrate as one.

Proudly based in Scotland, what started out as a small publishing house almost a decade ago with one magazine, has now evolved into a true cross-media powerhouse for the hair and beauty industry in both North America and the UK & Ireland.

Our lead titles, BarberEVO and SalonEVO are world renowned in the professional setting, with a host of trade show activations, events and digital activations born off the back of the publications success to date. 

The Role:

The successful candidate will be office based, with flexible hours / some early evening work required, and charged with the task of growing our sales revenue across our print and digital offerings, with the added opportunity of up-selling into our ever-growing trade show activations and wider event opportunities.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and sourcing new leads,
• Developing leads into relationships,
• Maintaining these relationships over time,
• Managing these relationships through a simple CRM system effectively
• Professionally managing client accounts
• Generating new business (above all else!)
• Meeting and exceeding projected sales revenue targets. 

What we need:

• An outgoing, lively, energetic and enthusiastic sales professional,
• Someone who enjoys working in an office,
• Someone who is supremely organised and efficient with paperwork and CRM management – this is a non-negotiable.
• Someone who isn’t afraid to pick up the telephone to call cold leads,
• A confident and courteous phone manner,
• A proven winner, with a successful track record in advertising sales,
• A team player, who is ready to roll up their sleeves in order to ensure success,
• A dependable sales professional who thrives under pressure and in a deadline-focused environment,
• A background in publishing and ad sales is critical for this role.
• An interest in hair and beauty is very helpful, but not essential.

Benefits:

• A starting salary between £25k - £30k depending on experience,
• Uncapped commissions, with a genuine opportunity to regularly double your take home pay each month if successful,
• Opportunity to travel throughout North America and beyond,
• 30 days annual leave total (with no requirement to take bank holidays, use your annual leave as you like)
• Absolutely no-weekend work ever, period.
• Flexible working hours – tailor these to your own sales plan of attack
• A casual dress code, to go with the fast-paced, fun and rewarding working environment,
• Company pension plan,
• On-site free parking
• Opportunity to grow in the role, if you do well, you can shape your own future within this growing business. 

Next Steps:

Please provide a CV and cover letter to be considered for this role.

If you have any relevant examples of advertising sales role successes worth sharing in support of your application, don’t be shy! Shrinking violets, need not apply!