Dynamic, forward-thinking culture and team
Career-defining opportunity for a driven Sales Manager
Australia's #1 wine media platform
Halliday Wine Companion is the leading authority on Australian wine. Encompassing an engaged digital subscriber base, Australia’s bestselling wine magazine, an award-winning website, monthly Wine Club and regular events, Halliday ensures that our community never drinks a bad bottle of wine again.
We now have an outstanding opportunity within the Halliday team for a savvy, proactive and creative senior sales manager. This position is responsible for securing advertising and sponsorship opportunities via across all media assets (print, digital, sponsorship, and future developments).
Reporting to the Commercial Director, the media Sales Manager will play a pivotal role in achieving advertising targets by creating bespoke, cross-selling proposals for clients in industries including wine, travel, hospitality and retail.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Developing and executing strategic sales plans to secure advertising partnerships across all Halliday media assets to achieve advertising and sponosrship revenue targets
Independently creating and presenting customised client proposals
Cultivating strong and lasting relationships with existing and prospective Halliday advertising partners, ensuring a regular virtual and in-person call cycle
Overseeing commercial activities within a designated client area
Collaboration with internal teams (Content, Marketing, Product, Design) to ensure successful campaign execution
Preparing campaign analysis reports and presentations
Partner with the Commercial Director to identify and develop new revenue streams, ongoing.
About you:
Our ideal candidate is an experienced and passionate advertising sales managerwith a proven history of developing and driving successful revenue-generating outcomes in a similar cross-selling environment. With a keen ability to develop a sustained and genuine understanding of their client’s goals, the successful candidate will have a collaborative approach and exceptional stakeholder relationship skills to ensure successful advertising campaign objectives are met.
If you are enthusiastic about utilising your media senior-level sales experience to impact the ongoing successes of the Halliday Wine Companion, we would love to hear from you.
Whilst media sales experience is essential (as is being Melbourne-based), knowledge of the wine, drinks, travel and lifestyle categories will be highly regarded.
This is a career-defining full-time, permanent opportunity to join an energetic and innovative team where your ideas will be welcomed and your career supported.
Employment perks and benefits:
Hardie Grant offers flexible work hours, bonus leave, and opportunities to keep learning and growing. Our benefits and policies reflect our commitment and passion to diversity, inclusion and giving back to our people and the community, including things like:
Bonus leave days
Additional menstrual and menopausal leave
A Reconciliation Australia endorsed RAP
A paid volunteer day each year to give back
Paid blood donation leave
Extensive L&D programs
Free counselling, for professional or personal matters
3 months parental leave at full-pay on top of statutory parental leave – for both primary and secondary carers
Fertility treatment and gender transition leave if required.
This is a full time role, based in our Melbourne office. To apply, please provide your CV, cover letter and any relevant work or project examples via the "Quick apply' button. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Hardie Grant is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply, including people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability. We look forward to meeting you!