Remote Position
[Remote] Account Executive- Travel and Tourism
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advance Local is hiring an Account Executive for Advance Travel & Tourism. The role drives profitable digital advertising revenue growth in the travel and tourism industry through client acquisition, campaign strategy, performance optimization, and post-sale campaign management.
Responsibilities
- Regularly meet with existing and prospective clients
- Apply needs-based selling to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes
- Focus on profitable revenue growth, meeting or exceeding sales targets
- Identify new revenue opportunities
- Develop and deliver client presentations supported by data analysis
- Manage a healthy pipeline using Salesforce.com to ensure consistent growth
- Collaborate with Strategy, Marketing and Operations teams
- Manage post-sale campaign execution, including creative coordination, fulfillment details and ongoing client communications to ensure successful campaign delivery
- Work from your home office and travel to clients, conferences and team meetings as necessary
Skills
- Bring your strong understanding of working with Convention & Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) and Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs), including the unique challenges of seasonal tourism cycles and reliance on state or municipal funding for marketing initiatives
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- • Minimum of two years of digital advertising sales in the travel and tourism industry
- • Demonstrated success at increasing sales in a competitive marketplace, consultative and solution-oriented selling, and an entrepreneurial spirit
- Demonstration of motivation and quick learning ability are required
- • Thorough knowledge of needs-based selling
- Experience using CRM sales management platforms
- • Proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- • Strong self-motivation and the ability to achieve goals independently
- • Excellent relationship-building skills
- • Outstanding written and verbal communication and presentation abilities, and active listening abilities
- • Commitment to teamwork and collaboration
- • Solid organizational skills with proven ability to multi-task, manage pressure and meet deadlines
- This role requires reliable transportation to regularly meet with clients
- Preferably in digital media
- Prior experience selling digital media advertising is highly preferred
Benefits
- Additional commissions bring total potential target compensation to $95,000 to $105,000.
- Remote-based position, ideally located in New Mexico or Texas; work from your home office.
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