Sales Support Specialist - Military Veterans
at Hearst
KMBC-TV/KCWE-TV, the ABC/CW affiliates in Kansas City, is looking for a Sales Support Specialist who is an organized, detail-oriented team player with exceptional written and verbal skills to join our amazing team! We're looking for someone with a positive "can do attitude" to take advantage of this career opportunity to get your foot in the door of a highly respected TV station, owned by Hearst Television, an industry-leading television station group. You will report to the Research Director.
Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative support to the account executives, sales managers, and research director.
- Order entry for both Local and National business.
- Assist account executives with prepping orders, emailing invoices, and handling sponsorship trackers.
- Help prepare sales presentations, programming "one-sheets," and other sales pieces.
- Create monthly reports and handle special requests in various media monitoring systems.
- Effectively and professionally communicate and interact with internal teams from all departments and external clients both on the phone, via email and in person.
- Maintain organized filing systems and shared drive maintenance.
- Back-up other sales support positions.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products including Windows, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment and manage multiple projects.
- Manage tight deadlines effectively.
- Capable of learning new systems promptly and thoroughly.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
- Highly focused and organized with extreme attention to detail.
- This position is fully onsite at the television station.
- Relevant work experience will be considered.
- Hearst Television is a proud supporter of military veterans. Related military training and experience will be considered.
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.
Benefits:
Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
- Medical | Dental | Vision
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional Wellness Support
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- LGBTQ+ Health Services
- Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
Kansas City, MO
Hearst is one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies. Hearst has been innovating for more than a century, leading with purpose, integrity and a culture of care, with a mission to inform audiences and improve lives. The company’s diverse portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; digital services businesses; and more than 200 magazines around the world. Hearst is always moving forward, investing in healthcare solutions to improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions; providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming. With a commitment to maintaining the highest quality in its products and services, Hearst is dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.