Media Sales Support Intern at Thomson Reuters 2018-2019
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers.
As a team, we believe in winning as one – collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences.
With more than 45,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance – and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Reuters News Agency has an opportunity to appoint a full time Media Sales Support Intern in South Africa who will be responsible for supporting the function of the Senior Account Manager.
The intern hired for this position has the opportunity to learn under the mentorship of a successful media team for a yearlong contract (subject to renewal based on performance).
You will need to have passion for media, strong strategic and innovative thinking skills in order to integrate into our growing, vibrant and passionate team who are always willing to go the extra mile. We are looking for an intern eager to gain a ton of great media experience!
Responsibilities and Duties:
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- Assist in all aspects of admin and contribute to the media sale process;
- Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics
- On the job training and learning of product feature offerings and benefits
- Assist in the sale opportunity process such as entering contact opportunity information, set up free trials request and assist in the trial follow up opportunity progress as set by Senior Account Manager
- Assist in commercial internal processes such as the preparation of quotations, draft of order, resolution on pending requests and quality issues, creation and mock-up of proposals
- Assist with providing pipeline reports, territory and account opportunity updates and forecasts through the use of Sales Force.
- Assist with the sales operation communication channel flow as set by your manager
- Assist with commercial sales Operational day to day
- Assist with internal liaising with billing and credit control departments
- Assist with business travel and expenses processing administration
- Assist in assessing the sales opportunities available internal and external such as product trends and competitive research
- Support and assist with managing general enquiries, telephonic or email.
- Not limited to the above, duties will be adapted and redefined from time to time to align with the commercial business workflow.
- Requirements and skills
- Degree Majoring in Sales, Marketing or Advertising, Public Relations
- Passionate about media and people
- Willingness to learn and ability to listen
- Confident Communicator, well presented and credible
- Strong attention to detail, highly organized, strong administration skills
- Supportive of working in a team environment
- Self -motivated, proactive with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Be digitally savvy / innovative
- Computer Proficiency Power Point, Word and Excel experience is a bonus
- Proficient in English and other languages being a great asset
- Time management and Deadline driven
- Winning attitude!
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