Souq.com is the premier e-commerce and auction site in the UAE, where individual buyers and sellers as well as businesses come together as a single trading community.My main responsibility is to achieve my monthly target by sourcing new direct business and maintaining client relations with current accounts. Canvassing other UAE websites as well as all other media platforms is vital, as well as networking to find out with which clients are active and what their media plans are. It is essential for me to build and maintain relationships at various advertising agencies. as well as meet clients direct where possible. In order to do this I make regular visits to the digital media teams at agencies including OMD, Flip, Mediaedge and Mindshare.

Telesales CanvasserI began working here on the daily newspaper 'East Anglian Daily Times' as well as some monthly projects and a quarterly bridal magazine. My role was to manage current clients speaking to them regularly, arranging for the material to reach production on time as well as ensuring that all the payments were received on time. We were responsible for advising clients on the size, regularity and positioning of the advert we recommended. It was also essential to source new leads regularly and achieve a goal of at least 10 cold calls per day. I was working as part of a team to meet individual and collective targets. During my telesales period here I exceeded every single target.Field Sales AdvisorAfter 3 months working as telesales I was then promoted to field sales advisor. I was now also responsible for guiding the telesales canvasser within my paired team, providing her with lead suggestions and advice when needed. I now managed some high spending key accounts, visiting them directly to sign for annual contracts and there after on a regular basis to check everything was ok, disguss advert material and payments. I constantly achieved ‘New Business’ targets as well as my overall monthly target. I was again working as part of a team to meet individual and collective targets- consistently (every month for 10 months) excelling these, reaching up to 160% on an occasion.

Subscription Sales ManagerI began work here as the subscription sales manager for Arts Industry magazine. My roles included keeping the mailing list tidy and making sure that the list was kept to six thousand names or more. I made around 80 calls per day to sell the magazine as a yearly subscription, few of these were renewal subscriptons, they were mainly cold calls to managing directors, operations directors, finance directors etc. Classified Sales ExecutiveI quickly excelled within the company so therefore ‘classified advertising sales executive’ was added to my roles here. I then started working on the classified section of the CLA South East and Looking East Magazines, 2 market leading farming and agricultural titles in East Anglia. I expanded the one – one and a half pages of adverts to two to two and a half classified pages. I continued with my role of subscription sales manager but split my time with classified sales.Advertisement ManagerI was then given the sole responsibility of a monthly Magazine-‘Motorcaravanner’ and had to maintain a £10,000 target each month from advertising sales. I achieved this every month by continually managing the existing customer base as well as regularly sourcing new leads through competitor publications, online leads and attending Motorhome shows where I met many of our advertisers. This really helped build relationships with clients and I enjoyed this very much.