International Sales Executive

INTERNATIONAL SALES EXECUTIVE

Unique international career opportunity (salary + commissions)!
Please send your CV + PHOTO to  careers@marcopolis.net.

Job Description
Main Responsibilities / Key Tasks
Desired Skills & Expertise
Personal Characteristics
Why Marcopolis.net?

Job Description

Purpose

As a member of one of MarcoPolis’ business development units, the chosen candidate will carry out missions abroad to meet with top governmental representatives, CEOs, chairmen and heads of the largest companies in a particular country in order to compile a unique e-report.

Placed in any of global markets, he/she will spend on the ground on average about 15 days (one mission) over a period of 3-4 months per year (on average up to 8 missions – business trips – abroad per year). He/she will be required to carry out at least 4 projects a year.

Main responsibilities / Key tasks

• Manages projects

• Builds up contact lists and profiles the key companies in each new country

• Sets up interviews with top ranking business and political officials

• Keeps in contact with ministries, companies and other entities for the purpose of relationship building

• Sales online advertising, branding, PR and other services to relevant and/or interested private and public entities

• Negotiates, closes and provides post-purchase service to the heads/officials of marketing departments, marketing analysts and corporate C-suits

Desired Skills & Expertise

• Min. 2 years of experience in direct sales (advertising, communications and other related industries are also considered) 

• Impeccable oral/written English (other languages valued)

• Outstanding track record in sales

• Completed degree (BA, MSc, MA)

Personal Characteristics

• Passion for sales 

• Born negotiator, enjoys cold calling, ability to handle client rejection 

• Team spirit, flexible, dynamic, hard-working, independent

• Confident

• Excellent personal appearance

• Interest in project management

• Knowledge of current international affairs

• Ability to travel 3-4 months per year (1 to 3 weeks’ missions)

Personal Qualities

• Upbeat. A good salesperson is always ‘up’, because someone who exudes the right kind of confidence and success is likely to make a prospect feel ‘up’ too. Enthusiastic salespeople embody hope, which is contagious. Signs of it will also help prospects intuitively relax because a hard-sell approach is less likely to come from a person exhibiting buoyancy.

• Resilient. Being in sales and handling rejection go hand in hand.
Anybody who can’t be persistent and resilient when it comes to coping with adversity won’t last long.

• Caring. Here the key is having the kind of empathy that builds rapport. Adroit salespeople make prospects feel as though they have an ally. There’s no substitute for being likeable, caring and trustworthy.

Why Marcopolis.net?

Marcopolis.net is an emerging player on the global media scene. Through its unique platform and business model the company is able to generate high-profile traffic to its high quality multimedia executive content.

Open no-subscription content available in one click, Marcopolis.net is an innovative technological/media company that paves the future for media.

ABOUT:

Building on a 16 year tradition of producing written reviews, MarcoPolis was launched in 2007 as a totally new concept available online.

MarcoPolis’ country portfolio includes UAE Report (2008), Bahrain Report (2009/2011/2013), Kuwait Report (2010/2012), Lebanon Report (2010/2012), Jordan Report (2010) and Morocco Report (2011), Côte d’Ivoire Report (2012), Brazil Report (2012-3), Iraqi Kurdistan Report (2013), Ghana Report (2013) and Libya Report (2013).

MarcoPolis’ teams of journalists have so far interviewed more than 20 Presidents and Prime Ministers such as Hugo Chavez, Rafiq Hariri, Nelson Mandela, Jacques Chirac and more than 150 ministers and 1000 CEO’s of top companies’ in countries such as: Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Turkey, Vietnam, Croatia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Angola, Botswana, Rwanda, Djibouti and Ghana.