Sr Sales Account Executive Transit

Our Lamar office in Milwaukee, WI, is now hiring a new Account Executive (salary + commission) to help us bring innovative outdoor advertising campaigns to life for brands in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The purpose of the Senior Sales Account Executive is to meet and exceed sales goals by selling high-impact transit advertising campaigns to qualified advertisers. This role develops and maintains advertising relationships with local and regional businesses and advertising agencies, and includes
prospecting new clients, direct client outreach, delivering presentations and proposals, negotiating rates and closing deals using our extensive printed inventory options. This includes collaborating with Lamar sales, marketing and operations teams to ensure products and services are delivered
and deadlines are met. Additionally, this role is to provide exceptional customer service to maintain quality long-term relationships with new and existing clients.

What you can expect from us:

• A Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm hybrid work schedule with paid holidays
• Monthly auto and cell allowances for work-related expenses
• A comprehensive 90 day training program
• Career advancement opportunities
• Ongoing professional development and internal leadership programs to maximize your career potential
• Multiple medical plan options and health savings account
• Hospital, Critical Illness, and Accident coverage
• Short & long-term disability and paid parental leave
• Employee Stock purchase plan
• 401k plan with company match
• Wellness program incentives such as medical plan premium holidays and HSA contributions

What we're looking for in YOU:

• Proven relationships with area clients, established track record of selling to local and direct clients preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal and listening skills as well as Word, Excel, computer and CRM proficiency (Salesforce preferred)
• Ability to make oral presentations to provide information or explain policies and procedures.
• Skill in speaking with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to explain the Out-of-Home advertising business to customers from installation and product standpoints
• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine business correspondence.
• Ability to perform effectively under fluctuating workloads.
• Skill in selling advertising to local and regional businesses and advertising agencies.
• Skill in establish rapport and gaining the trust of others.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Ability to meet a sales quota.
• Working knowledge of general sales techniques.
• Ability to cold call businesses.
• Ability to be intrinsically motivated to succeed and withstand rejection.
• Skill in working independently and following through on assignments with minimal direction.

Education and Experience Requirements

Required

• 3 years of successful business to business sales experience
• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Valid Driver's License

Preferred

• 3 years of advertising/media sales
• College Degree

Please note: Upon submitting your application, you will be asked to complete an 8-15 minute personality assessment. This assessment compares your professional soft skills to the skills required for success in this role. Please answer honestly; this is not a test! Not completing this assessment could result in disqualification from consideration for this position.

A day in the life:

• Meet and exceed sales objective (over $1M) in the assigned local territory by selling transit, bus, and shelter advertising campaigns through a relationship-based approach.
• Personally contact and secures new business accounts/customers through presenting products to existing/potential customers and assisting them in selecting those best suited to their needs.
• Identify potential growth areas and open new accounts. Increase Lamar's market share.
• Establish, develop and maintain business relationships with current customers and prospective customers in the assigned territory to generate new business for the organization's products daily.
• Develop and maintain a personal account list with direct client outreach, including in-person meetings and presentations weekly.
• Meet monthly and quarterly local sales projections.
• Use Lamar's data-driven research tools to prospect and qualify potential customers
• Develop clear and effective written proposals/quotations for current and prospective customers.
• Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints.
• Coordinate sales effort with marketing, sales management, accounting, and operations groups ensuring all groups are efficient and effective.
• Share pipeline report with Manager weekly on the designated day and time.
• Plan and organize personal sales strategy by maximizing the return on time investment for the market.
• Supply management with oral and written reports on customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services.
• Keep abreast of product applications, technical services, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and service areas.
• Attendance is an essential function of the job. Attendance in weekly/monthly meetings is required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• The primary work environment for this position is a combination of an office environment and work in the field making sales calls and servicing existing accounts.
• The physical demands for this position include light lifting, seeing (with a focus on reading, color distinction, acuity, depth perception, and peripheral vision), siting less than 50% of the time, standing, talking, turning, and walking.
• Nights spent away from home traveling are less than 10%

Who we are:

Founded in 1902, Lamar Advertising Company is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world. With over 351,000 displays across the United States and Canada, Lamar is dedicated to helping both local businesses and national brands reach broad audiences every day.

We provide ad space through:

• Billboards
• Interstate logos
• Handpainted murals
• Transportation and airports
• The largest network of digital billboards in the United States

We live by the Golden Rule, and we operate with honesty and integrity in every aspect of our business. We are open with our employees, transparent with our customers, and loyal to the communities in which we serve. While Lamar is a large company, each office has its own culture and family atmosphere, making employees feel connected both locally and nationally.

We are committed to sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices and use a number of innovative strategies to reduce our environmental impact. We are actively working to reduce our annual greenhouse gas emissions and are projecting a 70% decrease by 2026 as a result of our efforts.

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