• Sales Associate at She Leads Africa

    work She Leads Africa
    place Lagos, Johannesburg
    Date Posted: 2019-05-17

    She Leads Africa is a community that helps young African women achieve their professional dreams. With engaging online content and pan-African events, our vision is to become the 1 destination for smart and ambitious young women. We are hiring Sales Associates in Lagos, Nigeria / Johannesburg, South Africa

    Job Details

    The Sales Associate will be responsible for helping develop relationships with brands for both our online and offline products, and taking client-facing meetings to help close deals with brand partners. The Sales Associate will report directly to the Head of Sales & Partnerships.

    Responsibilities:

    • Position She Leads Africa as the top media platform for brands and agencies looking to reach young professional African women
    • Help the Head of Sales & Partnerships establish and deliver monthly and quarterly revenue targets for digital marketing campaigns and event sponsorship
    • Sell She Leads Africa’s digital advertisement space – this includes on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Newsletter and Website
    • Keep our rate card updated and ensure our rates are competetive and realistic
    • Follow through with clients from first e-mail outreach to ensure their payment has been made, content has been posted and analytics report is received
    • Consistently ensure the ads process is smooth and adapt it to fix any problems
    • Ensure that monthly and quarterly revenue targets are met

    We’re looking for someone who:

    • Has the ability to live and work in either Lagos, Nigeria or Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Has the ability to use Customer Relationship Management tools: You’ll be sending, tracking and following up on hundreds of conversations at the same time
    • Has great communication and customer service skills: Some people are frustrating, but you have to be professional, patient and nice (ALWAYS)
    • Has fabulous negotiation skills: Knowing the next best alternative price or content you can agree upon so you can close the deal while keeping everybody happy
    • Has knowledge of MS Excel and graphic creation/design (especially using Canva)
    • Can work independently and is happy to join a virtual team. We don’t have time to be chasing you around to do your work.
    • Has a can do attitude and is flexible enough to take on any task we throw at them.
    • Is passionate, hungry and eager to build SLA into a world class institution.
    • Has high professional and ethical standards i.e. understands that there’s no such thing as African time – you’re just late.
    • Is comfortable taking and giving feedback.
    • Has a good sense of humour – because we’ll be working hard so we better keep each other entertained.
    • Is curious and eager to learn. Not every day ask your manager for the answer – sometimes try to figure it out using your brain and google.
    • Is comfortable working in a startup environment where we’re making the rules up as we go along.

    Commitment:

    • Full time position

    Hours of work:

    • 50 hours per week, usual working hours are from 9:00am - 6:00pm WAT.
    • There will be a requirement from time to time to start work earlier or finish later as the role
      dictates.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply


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