The Advocate Acadiana is looking for an experienced, energetic, driven individual to be our next Digital Marketing Consultant. 

A successful candidate will establish and maintain long-term relationships with key decision-makers internally and externally. This position will require you to be highly proficient and professional in presenting to business owners/decision makers and be able to articulate our value proposition effectively.

What’s in it for you?

FLEXIBILITY & UNCAPPED POTENTIAL

• Flexible work from home vs. in office hours, Monday-Friday schedules
• Base pay uncapped monthly commissions from dollar one
• Career pathing
• Leadership that values feedback from all levels
• Autonomy over daily activity with support of a strong team atmosphere to ensure your success
• Cutting edge portfolio of advertising solutions to help your clients grow

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work independently, making sound business decisions that drive revenue goal achievement while communicating with your manager each day to discuss strategy, forecasting, and other key issues.
• Demonstrate a complete understanding of product features and benefits, rates, and packages and explain them in a way to match recommendations to customer needs. Use training resources to become proficient in all advertising solutions and processes.
• Strategically prospect for new accounts, conduct needs assessments to determine customer needs, generate ideas and proposals, present recommendations, close the sale, and set client expectations.
• Analyze clients’ campaign objectives to prepare creative solutions by using all appropriate products and services to fit the advertisers’ budget and goals from our portfolio of advertising solutions (SEM, SEO, OTT, Video, OOH, Social, Email, Digital Display, Streaming Radio, DID, Print, etc.)
• Meet with individual clients (monthly) to review schedules, budgets, and create new strategies.
• Monitor other media to identify business prospects, attend local or category business events for networking opportunities, and stay up to date with industry trends.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ideal candidate has some sales experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong time management, organization, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Media including digital advertising familiarity is a plus but not required.
• Ability to work in team setting.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• We offer a base pay, uncapped monthly commissions from dollar one, mileage reimbursement, cell phone allowance and full benefits, including 401K options and vacation. Flex office time.
• Must have valid driver's license and insurance.
• Normal 8 AM – 5 PM business working hours.

The Advocate is an equal employment opportunity employer, committed to recruiting, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce while providing unique opportunities and career paths for our employees.

We encourage applicants of all backgrounds and experience levels to apply.