SALES MANAGER

Farmers Weekly

With nearly 40 years of industry leadership, Mark Allen invites you to join a culture fuelled by passion, creativity, and fairness. We’re committed to nurturing talent and growing our brands, allowing you to impact our continued success.

With 550 talented individuals across 7 offices, we’re recruiting a Sales Manager to join the award-winning Farmers Weekly team.

This Sales Manager role is a hybrid position, with three days in-office at our Sutton location. The salary range is £60,000-£65,000 (DOE) plus 30% OTE and company benefits.

We offer on-the-job training to ensure you feel supported and empowered in your role.

What We Can Offer You:

• Opportunities to drive impact: Take ownership of managing and motivating a team of Sales Executives, inspiring them to deliver results and exceed targets. Develop their potential through training, coaching, and career development frameworks.
• Commercial responsibility: Deliver across classified, display, digital, recruitment and bespoke media solutions for our clients, ensuring we meet their unique needs with tailored offerings.
• Digital focus: Drive engagement with the digital advertising marketplace by bringing fresh, actionable ideas to enhance our offerings and deliver results for our clients.
• Key account management: Sustain and strengthen relationships with key customers, focusing on partnerships and acting as the customer’s advocate to ensure mutual success. This is a hands-on role selling alongside your team. 
• Empowerment to innovate: Collaborate with the wider teams to identify new business opportunities, enhance products and services, and implement creative solutions for all advertising revenue streams.
• A platform to share ideas: Work in an environment that encourages idea generation to make our organisation more effective, efficient, and profitable.
• Market insights: Actively acquire and apply knowledge of the agricultural marketplace, including competitors and customer needs, to identify and exploit growth opportunities. Identify and implement new revenue streams that meet customer needs and keep our offerings competitive in the market.

And What We Ask in Return:

• Alignment with our values: Be passionate about delivering excellence, creative in problem-solving, fair in your approach, and nurturing in how you lead and develop your team.
• Drive for excellence: Lead by example, this is a hands-on sales role using robust performance monitoring systems to address gaps and celebrate success. Be proactive in maintaining and building relationships with key customers, identifying competitive advantages, and delivering exceptional customer solutions.
• Strategic vision: Use your marketplace knowledge as you embrace this incredible market to create and execute strategies that meet customer needs, exceed targets, and build long-term partnerships.
• Commitment to collaboration: Work with stakeholders across the business to ensure propositions have traction, remain competitive, and meet customer expectations.
• Champion innovation: Identify opportunities for growth through new digital ideas, marketing solutions, and comprehensive total solution offerings that keep us ahead in the industry.

A Few Key Points:

• Dates: Interviews will commence in January 2025 to appoint and start in February 2025
• Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diverse backgrounds and perspectives; they make us stronger. If you’re excited about this role, apply even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly. You could be just the right fit for other roles we are recruiting for.
• UK Right to Work: All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK. We cannot offer sponsorship at this time.
• Our Communities: Mark Allen operates across eight communities, including MA Agriculture, MA Business, MA Dentistry Media, MA Education & Music, MA Exhibitions, MA Financial Media, MA Healthcare, and MA Travel Retail.

Content is at the heart of everything we do, whether it’s across print, digital, or events. Join us as we continue our journey of success.

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