I am assisting a contact in my network to find a good candidate for the following position. Since they prefer someone experienced in real estate, I thought that this would be the best place to place the following information and find the best candidate. If you or someone you know would be interested in this position, the contact info is below.

Cheers!

Suzette

Company: Inman News
Job Title: Sales Professional for Online Advertising and Events
Description: We are looking for an experienced, driven sales professional to support our growing online advertising and conference schedule. This position reports to our Sales Director, welcomes creativity, has close interaction internally across departments and externally with clients.
Responsibilities include:
- Close online advertising and event sponsorship agreements with Fortune 500/1000 and start-up companies across multiple verticals, with an emphasis on real estate technology.
- Manage accounts with both short and long sales cycles; identify decision makers, close sales and meet/exceed quota; maintain sales pipeline, ensure ad traffic activity.
- Work existing accounts, field inbound inquiries and prospect for new business.
- Attend industry conferences to network and seek out new accounts, some travel required.
- Work respectfully, efficiently and closely with entire company team.

Your Profile:
- 5 years+ of successful media sales/business development experience (Internet marketing, newspaper /trade book ad sales good, too) with an emphasis on consultative sales.
- Comfortable interacting with and selling to C-level executives.
- Excellent communication skills in person, on the telephone and via e-mail/written correspondence.
- Believe in giving top-notch customer service.
-Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on customer value and upsell opportunities.
- Ability to accurately maintain lead development funnel through contact management tools, including daily/weekly metrics reporting.
- Good sense of humor and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Highly organized with desire to see agreements through to their completion.
- Experience with the real estate/financial sector is a plus.
- High level of creativity and initiative, great teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Strong PC & MS Office Skills: Word, Excel.

Inman News (www.inman.com) is an online media company and newspaper syndicate focused on real estate, delivering content to 250+ U.S. newspapers and 50,000 Web sites and reaching millions of consumers and real estate professionals each day through clients and partners including The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS MarketWatch, and many more. Inman offers information-based products and services for the real estate professional and consumer, including News Membership, Digital Media and News content for the Web and Special Reports. Inman also produces the highly regarded Real Estate Connect technology conferences for the real estate industry's decision makers and opinion leaders.

For immediate consideration, send your resume and compensation requirement to jobsales@inman.com.