Partnerships/Sponsorships Sales Manager Job in S.Africa 2017

CapeTownMagazine.com- Partnerships/Sponsorships Sales Manager Job in S.Africa March 2017

New job position at CapeTownMagazine.com March 2017

Employment for Partnerships/Sponsorships Sales Manager in S.Africa 2017

Remuneration:	R20000 – R35000 per month Basic plus commission
Benefits:	Excellent commission structure, cell phone, laptop, petrol allwance, parking
Location:	Cape Town, CBD, Cape Town
Job level:	Senior
Own transport required:	Yes
Travel requirement:	Occasional
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#partnershipspro

Job description

The implementation of system to onboard products and experience community
Direct sales to brands as well as PR agencies
Partnership packages, event partnerships, content marketing partnerships
Banner campaigns and full site sponsorships

The successful candidate will, therefore, be required to successfully

Set a strategy for the sales team together with the MD
Create a high performance, results focused sales culture
Work structured on different levels of revenue;
Small, medium and large partnerships & strategic sponsorships.
Work towards a funnel building, get them in for a sale, move them up, and up.
Be a solutions thinker and a ‘getting things done’ instead of ‘doing things’
Have experience in putting together excellent and clear presentations and proposals
Develop excellent sales material in line with emotive core of the company
Build a sales team of two new sales people, one junior and one senior.
Enable the sales team to come out of their shadow and realise the love of making the deal
Grow the quality of the sales teams in weekly meetings delivery on their target
Drive the new sales into the workflows with brief and monitors quality of delivery

Company Description

CapeTownMagazine.com, a leading online magazine about Cape Town that is proud to boast an extensive global and local following, is seeking to employ an experienced, dynamic, success orientated Partnership and Sponsorship Manager with an impressive track record. This is a full-time opportunity within a fast-paced, fast-growing independent online company that is outperforming corporate online media in both growth and social media.

2017 is also the year a new CapeTownMagazine.com is being built to unlock the real potential.

Past success:
In the last five years, CapeTownMagazine.com has increased revenue on average with 20-35% per year. Growing its channels to a tremendous reach, equally special is the partner retention rate of appx 80-90% as well as the majority growing their spend with CapeTownMagazine.com.

Future focus:
We are currently focusing on making a big push forward towards partnership sales as well as sponsorships with brands and events to a value of R500,000 to R3,000,000 per year. At the same time funnels will be built to enable every small to large business to get into the funnel (=written about) and develop them from there.

Requirements

5-10 years’ experience in b2b sales to tourism, travel and hospitality industry
excellent track record and references
experience with online sales funnel / crm tools such as insightly
proven affinity for online media as well as the tourism, travel and hospitality industry
experience in building and managing funnels for sales campaigns using online tools
built clever and happy sales teams
a passion to anchor best practice within the organisation
successfully developed – and delivered on – detailed year sales planning
is highly experienced in online media, social media and an avid educator of prospects in this
see online sales and crm tools to drive sales as a starting point

Personal Skills/Attributes

The ideal candidate will have empathy for the customer’s objectives,
Be focused and internally driven to accomplish goals,
Responsible for their own and their team’s performance,
Optimistic and confidence in their persistence and possess a strong ‘can do’ mentality.

Contact details
Leigh Oosthuizen
CapeTownMagazine.com
0832611201
leigho@telkomsa.net