Sales Assistant - Media Job

Posting Job Title:Sales Assistant - Media
Requisition #: 161162BR
Posting Location: Austin, TX, US
Area of Interest:Ad Sales
Position Type: Full Time

Posting Job Description

Time Warner Cable Media currently seeks a
Sales Assistant in our Sales Department
. Below please find a brief description of the essential duties and responsibilities required to function successfully in this position.


Time Warner Cable Media Sales (TWCMS) is the advertising sales division of
Time Warner Cable providing marketers and agencies with innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable. Together we work with our partners to customize an advertising schedule that works for their unique business to help achieve their marketing goals.
TWCMSprovides innovative opportunities to showcase partner commercials on a variety of world-class cable brands and help them stand out in the crowded advertising space. If you like to brainstorm ideas on how to maximize sales and are an innovative leader,
TWCMS is the place for you.


Essential Job Functions:
- Assist with activities between the sales staff, other departments, and our client base, by performing the following duties:
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload based on sales team ' s needs and internal deadlines
- Account management for several Account Executives-this includes the ability to manage all internal aspects of Account Executive ' s (AE) accounts from start to finish. Examples include building a client in CRM to inputting orders in Strata View 32, to working with internal TWC departments to create schedules and book an order through the system.
- Strong written and verbal communication with internal and external TWC customers on a daily basis.
- Manages all digital orders for sales team, including booking online and VOD orders and managing online and VOD orders from start to finish and troubleshooting any issues with digital orders with internal TWC teams.
- Work collaboratively with the finance and billing teams to research invoice and account billing discrepancies.
- Communicates daily with client and traffic team on missing traffic, make-goods, and late orders.
- Exercises judgment to manage make-goods and pre-emptions on assigned AE ' s orders on a daily basis to ensure that all revenue is being added back in as quickly as possible.
- Works with assigned AEs at the end of each month to provide monthly recaps on key and target accounts.
- Provides AEs with requested reports and assists AEs in analyzing reports for all linear and digital orders, as requested.
- Analyzes all monthly finance reports for the sales team and provides the billing department with all missing scripts and updates for co-op and calendar billing clients.
- Works with billing department to update billing information on AE ' s accounts to ensure that accounts are set up correctly in CRM and Eclipse.
- Performs period customer service touch points to confirm invoice receipt and answer questions.
- May coordinate with client solutions, production and schedule building departments.
- Works with sales management to implement sales contest boards and tracking.
- Researches and problem-solves all account issues for sales team. This includes wrong traffic running, billing discrepancies, credit issues, digital reporting, etc.
- May perform other tasks in support of Account Executive(s) including administrative, eTIMe tracking, and any other duties as assigned or as they become evident, in order to maximize the effectiveness of the AE.

Job Requirements:
- Experience in computer software including MS Office and Spreadsheets at a minimum is required; any experience in software similar to our sales support packages preferred.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to effectively communicate with peers, co-workers, key clients and superiors in written and verbal form; ability to present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public

Education and Experience:
- Bachelor ' s degree (B. A.) from four-year College or University; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Note: This Job Summary should not be construed, to be all inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with a job. While the description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary.

FCC Unit_TWC: ADSW
Controlling Establishment ID: 00343 - Dallas Spring Valley Rd

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