Business Developer and Sales Administrator

Drogheda - Ireland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Business Developer and Sales Administrator

LMFM Radio is the local radio station for Counties Louth and Meath with a broadcast area stretching from the border with Northern Ireland to the M50. Founded in 1989 the station is by far the most popular radio service in the North East with almost twice the listenership of its nearest competitor. The station also has a huge following on social media and has over 500000 page views each month on

Your Role:LMFM is looking to expand its market-leading sales team by recruiting a Business Developer and Sales Administrator to identify and develop new business and to administer our Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) enabling us to maintain strong relationships with our customers and to grow our business. A determination to identify and develop relationships with new customers is key to success in this role.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of social media platforms and search engines enjoy meeting new customers and have a flair for efficient administration.

Day to day you will:

Identify possible new revenue from a variety of sources including social media platforms and search engines
Chat with potential customers to compile and gather information relating to their advertising preferences
Maintain the CRM system to ensure customer data is accurate and up to date
Prepare weekly briefings for the sales manager
Attend weekly sales meetings
Assist in providing AL or other leave cover for other sales team members
Adhere to all sales department policies including recommended rates and packages
Assist with special sales-related projects
Stay abreast of competitive conditions
Consistently strive for best-in-class customer care delivery

What were looking for from you:

Highly motivated and able to work on your own initiative
Tech-savvy with good understanding of social media platforms and search engines for information and data retrieval
Good diction and telephone skills
Ability to experiment with AI to gather data more efficiently and to assist in preparing information.
Good time management and organisation skills
Efficient in Microsoft tools including Excel & PowerPoint

Whats in it for you

Your package will include a competitive salary and an attractive performance incentive package

We love our business and what we do. We want you to love work as much as we do so we promise to offer on-the-job training and development enabling you to be the best you can be.

We are Onic:We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts along with ourweb and social pages play a massive part in our listeners lives. We engage we inform and weentertain with our market leading Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urbancentres and we create award winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of awider group with radio stations like Virgin Radio talkSPORT Times Radio and talkRADIO which areredefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms connected TV and beyond.

Life at News:At News UK & Ireland our people are our heartbeat they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion; we strive to maximise and encourage every individuals potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board D&I strategy & training creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition we also offer:

25 days holiday per year
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Bikes for Work scheme
Wide range of training available plus full LinkedIn Learning access

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing so feel free to let us know at any stage whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and we will do our best to accommodate.

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About The Company

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Business Developer and Sales AdministratorLMFM Radio is the local radio station for Counties Louth and Meath with a broadcast area stretching from the border with Northern Ireland to the M50. Founded in 1989 the station is by far the most popular radio service in the North East with almost twice the...