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  • Sales Director

    The JAR group is hiring a senior sales professional to take on the role of Sales Director. This individual must be well connected and capable of identifying, pursuing and winning new business opportunities. The successful candidate will be able to apply his/her current depth of knowledge of digital and offline marketing, technology, and a swiftly-acquired familiarity of The JAR Group in order to demonstrate how our solution stands out in the marketplace.

    The JAR Group is an award winning, fast growing digital services firm that focuses on driving realized value to our clients. By understanding our clients’ customer behaviors online we then grow, build, and optimize the necessary channels including but not limited to Paid Media, Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, Mobile, SEO, and eCRM. We provide creative, UX, technology and strategic support, and ensure that ongoing research and analytic insight use feedback to continuously increase our clients’ ROI.

    Commission and Compensation package will be very aggressive and encourage groundbreaking strategy, concepts, and sales.

    Requirements:

    • 5+ years of sales experience within advertising agency or creative service/consulting business with digital at the core
    • Strong understanding of core developments in digital marketing and underlying technologies.
    • Have existing relationships with companies, advertisers, agencies, and potential channel partners. You should be able to get a real meeting today with a phone call.
    • Ability to understand and fluently communicate JAR’s core business propositions and offerings.
    • Identify and close deals with digital brands and advertising agencies to achieve JAR’s and individual’s quarterly and annual sales goals.
    • Excellent sales skills with a proven track record of success negotiating, closing and delivering complex, consultative, high revenue, deals (6-figure +).
    • Comfort working in a fast paced, rapidly changing, start-up environment.
    • Ability/willingness to travel as needed.


    Responsibilities

    • Help define and develop a new business strategy tailored to the needs of the JAR group
    • Proactively initiate new client relationships
    • Follow up on new business leads and identify organic growth opportunities
    • Prioritize opportunities
    • Define new business processes, and manage that process in conjunction with the CEO and senior team
    • Contribute to capabilities presentations and other marketing materials
    • Coordinate internal resources within office and cross-office to develop client proposals
    • Lead new business/pitch presentations
    • Develop and maintain a client and prospect database using Salesforce.com
    • Leverage our existing partnerships and develop new ones
    • Lead internal new business meetings and agency updates
    • Work with the agency management team to meet overall agency vision and objectives

    To Apply:
    Please submit a Resume and Cover Letter answering the following questions to jobs@thejargroup.com:

    1. If you were to start selling at the JAR group tomorrow, who would be your first sales client, and why?
    2. Briefly describe what you would see as your difficulties in selling the JAR group.