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C-VILLE Weekly seeks a Retail Sales Manager to join the team. Strong candidates know how to sell and manage a team. If you want a shot at the title, send me your resume: frank@c-ville.com

Position Summary:
The Retail Sales Manager is responsible for revenue generation, and overall management of all aspects of the Retail Account Executives. This position serves clients and accomplishes sales goals utilizing C-VILLE’s entire portfolio – web, print, and events. This position manages a team of highly driven, customer-focused, Account Executives and participates in management conversations related to making sales. Requires excellent verbal and written skills, sales and management experience, and a no-holds-barred dedication to out-pacing the market in sales performance.

Essential Functions:
• Generate new business while serving existing clients via a 5 person sales team
• Oversee and assist 4 Retail AE’s: Training, development, sales calls
• Manage a small list of top clients

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Previous Sales Experience, Management
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Proficient in basic programs: Excel, Word, email, customer databases etc.
• Strong communication skills: oral and written
• Ability to excel in a smart, fast paced, work environment
• Must relish the written word

C-VILLE Weekly seeks an Advertising Account Executive to join the team. Strong candidates know how to sell and take care of clients. If you want a shot at the title, send me your resume: frank@c-ville.com

Position Summary:
The Account Executive is responsible for developing new business while taking great care of existing clients. This position sells ad campaigns, builds relationships, while extending a sphere of influence to maximize sales potential within a geographic territory. This position works closely with an Advertising Assistant and has consistent support and leadership from their Associate Publisher/Publisher. Account Executives learn the business of publishing, grow their territories, and have fun.

Essential Functions:
• Diligent outreach to new prospective clients – Approx 10 new calls per day, 2 meetings per day
• Develop and execute ad campaigns for new and existing clients
• Learn/know client’s business model, customer, marketing resources, ad outlets
• Manage ad copy and proof ads via email, fax, by hand
• Attend client functions, events, parties
• Develop keen sense of trends, news, events within geographic territory – become that territory’s expert
• Always seek opportunity thru idea generation – publishing projects,
• Become an integral part of your client’s success
• Make yourself irreplaceable
• Territory forecasting: week, month, Qtr, Year

Other Duties/Responsibilities
• Learn the business of publishing
• Be active in developing sales skills
• Change is an active component of progressive, entrepreneurial organizations – we must be accepting and willing to embrace new opportunities when they arise

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Previous Sales Experience
• Proficient in basic programs: Excel, Word, email, customer databases etc.
• Strong communication skills: oral and written
• Ability to excel in a smart, fast paced, work environment
• Must relish the written word
• Ideal candidates are street smart and current with popular culture
 

C-VILLE Weekly, Charlottesville's News & Arts Weekly, has been the alternative voice of the community since 1989. Well known for its leading journalistic and creative sensibility, C-VILLE is enjoying its 20th year of strong revenue and circulation growth.

Located directly on the historic pedestrian mall in downtown Charlottesville, the heart of the city, ours is a professional work environment that is energetic, passionate, dedicated, and fun. C-VILLE offers excellent benefits including health care, dental, simple IRA, gym reimbursement and parking.

C-VILLE is always on the look out for creative, intelligent, and outgoing individuals to join our team. We might not have an opening for you currently, but if you feel you have something to offer, go ahead and send a letter and/or resume: email: frank@c-ville.com; snail-mail: C-VILLE Weekly, 308 E. Main St., Charlottesville, VA 22902.

Amidst the rolling hills of the Blue Ridge, Charlottesville is home to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of Virginia. Consistently ranked amongst the nation's top places to live, Charlottesville was named the #1 place to live by Fodor's in 2006. Why? Smart people, great outdoor scene, excellent restaurants, moderate climate ... all good things!

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Regarding equal employment, please note that Portico Publications strongly supports the policies contained in the rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and other state and federal laws on the subject of disabilities in the workplace setting.