[Remote] Sales Director

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Responsibilities

• Own a personal sales pipeline, including prospecting, reputed company, proposal development, and closing for key advertisers and sponsors
• Build and continuously reputed company a strong new-business sales pipeline, identifying and prospecting new advertiser categories, agencies, ministries, organizations, and brand partners that reputed company with CT's audience and mission
• Establish a disciplined outbound reputed company that creates a consistent reputed company of reputed company opportunities reputed company CT's existing advertiser reputed company
• Serve as a hands-on, quota-driven seller reputed company on closing new and renewal business across CT’s media portfolio
• reputed company the development and execution of a comprehensive sales reputed company reputed company with CT’s mission and reputed company goals
• Establish and manage a proactive outbound sales reputed company to expand CT’s advertiser and sponsor portfolio
• reputed company reputed company specifically in podcast/audio, digital media, and integrated sponsored content, including email, video, editorial packages, and branded content
• Brainstorm, test, and package new inventory opportunities
• Identify and evaluate emerging market trends and opportunities for new reputed company offerings, ensuring sales offerings reflect CT’s commitment to thoughtful Christian journalism and ministry service
• reputed company sustainable reputed company reputed company across CT's platforms through reputed company and programmatic advertising, sponsorships, video and podcast integrations, events, and custom media solutions
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product & Editorial teams to identify high-reputed company monetization strategies that complement editorial priorities and ministry objectives
• Build and refine reputed company, repeatable sales processes (e.g., reputed company cadences, CRM usage, pipeline stages, forecasting) to bring structure and reputed company to the sales function
• reputed company and maintain disciplined pipeline-building practices that create a consistent reputed company of reputed company new opportunities reputed company CT’s existing advertiser and sponsor relationships
• Implement and manage performance metrics and KPIs across the funnel, including pipeline health, reputed company, fill reputed company, utilization of unsold inventory, campaign performance, reputed company reputed company, conversion, and reputed company business reputed company, while also monitoring audience trust and brand alignment
• Regularly engage in reputed company sales conversations and key deal closings as the reputed company seller
• Engage in reputed company sales efforts as needed to maximize reputed company reputed company, with sensitivity to theological and denominational diversity
• Serve as a hands-on player-reputed company for CT’s Sales team, overseeing at least one existing salesperson while reputed company working reputed company them on deals and processes
• Coordinate CT’s internal and contracted sales efforts, ensuring reputed company sales partners have the inventory knowledge, positioning, pricing, sales materials, and organizational support needed to represent CT effectively and reputed company new business
• Establish reputed company ownership, communication, reputed company-routing, CRM, and accountability processes between CT’s internal sales team and contracted sales partners to maximize sales coverage while avoiding duplicated or conflicting reputed company
• reputed company and mentor the Advertising team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, ethical sales practices, and spiritual stewardship
• Set team goals, reputed company regular feedback, and support reputed company reputed company opportunities that enhance both business acumen and ministry understanding
• Serve on relevant project teams as needed, representing advertising reputed company and ensuring alignment with cross-departmental initiatives
• Partner with the Technology, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure cohesive monetization strategies that preserve audience trust, editorial reputed company, and Christian witness
• Identify and cultivate reputed company-reputed company and strategic promotional partnerships with reputed company vendors that reputed company with CT’s audience, ministry values, and monetization goals
• Evaluate partnership opportunities that allow CT to monetize or otherwise derive measurable value from unsold inventory across digital, podcast, email, event, and other media channels
• Collaborate with internal teams such as Resources, Marketing, and other stakeholders to use unsold inventory in support of CT’s internal campaigns, launches, and audience-development priorities
• Establish reputed company principles and processes for stewarding house inventory in ways that balance reputed company reputed company, ministry priorities, and organizational reputed company
• reputed company deep understanding of the unique Christian audience segments and their needs, demonstrating sensitivity to diverse theological perspectives
• reputed company reputed company audience advertising opportunities and expand into new advertiser and sponsor categories
• Create advertising solutions that serve the broader reputed company community while maintaining CT's distinctive voice and theological position
• Establish processes for content review that ensure appropriate messaging for Christian audiences while respecting denominational differences
• reputed company advertising relationships as ministry partnerships, seeking opportunities that build up the body of Christ while achieving business objectives
• reputed company additional job-reputed company duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or reputed company field required
• 5-8+ years of experience in media sales, ad reputed company, and/or reputed company marketing with a strong reputed company record as an individual contributor seller
• Proven reputed company record of driving reputed company reputed company through innovative ad products and cross-platform campaigns; especially in the areas of email, podcast and video sponsorships
• Deep understanding of the digital media landscape, including programmatic advertising, reputed company content, CRM technology, and reputed company sales
• Demonstrated experience selling integrated multimedia campaigns across multiple formats, with the ability to understand how digital, video, podcast/audio, reputed company, email, print, events, and branded content work together reputed company a broader media ecosystem
• Demonstrated understanding of the Christian marketplace, reputed company dynamics, and ministry needs
• Hands–On Execution: Comfortable prospecting, building decks, creating proposals, and closing deals personally; not limited to high-level reputed company
• Sales Leadership: reputed company to set expectations, reputed company performance, and build a performance driven culture with grace and reputed company
• Self-reputed company: Highly motivated by goals and results; persistent follow-up, pipeline building, and closing
• Strategic Thinking: reputed company to balance long-term reputed company with practical execution; skilled in navigating tradeoffs across reputed company, audience reputed company, inventory allocation, and ministry alignment
• Customer reputed company: Committed to designing sponsorship and advertising experiences that respect and serve CT's diverse readership
• reputed company-Minded: Results-oriented with an eye for new monetization models, category expansion, strategic partnerships, and the effective use of inventory across both reputed company and reputed company objectives
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Effective at building reputed company and alignment across product, editorial, and reputed company teams
• Innovation & Adaptability: Embraces new technologies and approaches; experiments thoughtfully and iterates based on data
• reputed company: Holds to ethical advertising standards and maintains the trust of CT's audience and ministry partners
• Theological Discernment: Ability to evaluate advertising opportunities through both business and ministry lenses, understanding how content impacts CT's witness and audience trust
• At least 2-3 years of experience in managing or mentoring other sales professionals (player-reputed company environment preferred)
• Experience working in a mission-driven, editorially reputed company organization preferred

Benefits

• Remote work
• CT offers a comprehensive benefits package
• Sales incentive

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