State Head / State Vertical Head, Noida - 1352898

Job Description

For initial one year the position will be based out in Bhopal.
During this one year, candidate will be working on various strategic initiatives with MD Office and will be part of MD Fellowship Program.
After one year in Bhopal, he/she will be moved to any of the corporate locations (Delhi/Mumbai/Bangalore) OR State locations (Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Indore, Chandigarh, Aurangabad, Patna) as State Head OR State Vertical Head.
Key Responsibilities of State Head / State Vertical Head :
1) Sales strategy & Independent handling and directly responsible for Corporate/State Ad Sales Revenue.
2) Focus on Yield improvement
3) Market development for respective Ad Sales Vertical Category
4) Volume growth through consumer understanding & regular schemes
5) Team Management ( guide , motivate & mentor them )
6) Channel expansion & engagement
7) Handling sales revenue approx. 20 – 30 crs.
8) Ad revenue to grow in line with market potential.
9) Key account management & Client engagement
10) Drive all sales operations and optimization of team.
11) Drive ROI

Requirements

1) Articulate, Analytical, Business Understanding, Ability to adapt in changing and challenging atmosphere.
2) Ability to handle pressure.
3) From a Media Sales background (Newspaper) industry.

Company Description

With the readership of 1.98 crore (Source: IRS Q4 2012) the brand Bhaskar is today synonymous… with success, quality, change dynamism and ethics in millions of households across India and the corporate world alike.
From a humble beginning of one Hindi Edition from Bhopal in 1958, group today has grown to become India’s Largest newspaper group.. The group has a strong presence in newspapers, radio, event marketing, printing, short code, internet portal. With its flagship Hindi daily newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar, Gujarati daily, Divya Bhaskar, Marathi dialy Divya Marathi and English daily – dna, it covers 13 States with 65 editions. In addition to these, it also publishes Business Bhaskar, DB Star and Magazines like Aha! Zindagi, Balbhaskar, Young Bhaskar and Lakshay. The other media businesses includes MY FM (radio channel), 54567 (Short Code), IMCL (internet services).  Read full description