Opportunity Snapshot

Join a dynamic and energetic sales program and channel your initiative to make an impact on our customers, our organization, and your own career!

The Journal-Courier is seeking a highly motivated and determined inside sales person. To be a successful Inside Sales Representative on our team, you will need to demonstrate a positive, customer-centric focus, and be able to thrive in a team atmosphere. Also important is your high level of attention to detail, follow-through, and thorough knowledge of Excel and Word.

Your success in this role could set you up to pursue a variety of career paths in our organization or throughout our parent company, Freedom Communications, Inc (FCI). Interactive is a major focus throughout FCI, and it is transforming our industry. The Community Newspaper Division of FCI is taking an innovative approach to "riding the wave" of this transformation, taking advantage of FCI's newly-launched Interactive Division, a corporate resource that is helping ensure the success of our diverse and market-responsive portfolio of products and services.

Our Requirements

To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have:

• Telemarketing/ phone sales experience.
• A degree in Advertising, Marketing or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A demonstrated ability to meet and exceed established sales goals.
• A proven ability to be flexible and adaptable, including learning new and applying new information quickly.
• Excellent organization and planning skills, including demonstrated success in managing deadlines and schedules through multiple projects.
• Outstanding people skills and the ability to work with all position levels within sales and marketing.
• A professional demeanor and the ability to make effective, polished presentations to clients.
• Computer savvy and familiarity with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

What's in It for You

Comprehensive training -- from the start you'll see that our environment is supportive. While we'll value the skills and experience you bring, we'll provide you with extensive training in our products and processes, and you'll receive ongoing skills development through formal sales training programs.

High profile, innovative products -- we have outstanding brands where it counts: in local communities where businesses can truly reach the audiences that matter. You will be able to offer tailored solutions from our robust portfolio of interactive products, which includes online advertising, search engine optimization, rich media creatives, website design, and more. In fact, if a customer asks for something we don't have in our portfolio, we'll do our best to create it or find out where we can get it.

Autonomy -- you'll be working closely with your team and your supervisor to meet your established sales targets at the end of each month, but as long as you are achieving your goals, we'll give you support when you need it and "elbow room" when you don't.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary and incentive program, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical and dental insurance, a 401(k) plan, a generous allotment of paid time off, and more.

More About Your Role

There is a great deal of variety among the business units of the Community Newspaper Group, as each business reflects the unique character of the area it serves. We are providing a generalized picture to help you understand the position, but you should understand that some of the details will vary from location to location.

In most situations you will report to an Advertising or Sales Manager. We'll start by training you so that you have a solid grasp of our products, the strategies behind our sales programs, our markets, and more. Your mission will be to sell customized advertising packages that maximize the benefits of advertising for our customers while maximizing revenues for our company. In order to be an outstanding Sales Representative, you will:

• Possess strong initiative and self-motivation, and achieve your goals with minimal supervision.
• Maintain a high level of innovation and creativity and be willing to try new things and find new inspirations in unusual places.
• Bring a competitive spirit and goal orientation, including persistence in pursuing your objectives in spite of obstacles.
• Be confident and resilient in the face of challenges and disappointments.
• Partner effectively with a variety of personalities to achieve customer satisfaction and promote team success, including sharing credit with your co-workers.
• Remain flexible and adaptable, whether it is rescheduling your day in response to changing priorities or incorporating new products and strategies into your sales approach.
• Drive toward continuous learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and be able to absorb, assimilate, and apply information quickly.

If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!

Who We Are

The Community Newspapers Division, with a combined circulation of more than a half-million subscribers across the nation, remains committed to the communities it serves by focusing on local customers and markets, and doing what it does best: delivering quality news products every day.

Freedom Communications, Inc is a privately owned diversified company that integrates newspapers, broadcast television stations, and interactive media businesses. We are in the midst of an exciting period of growth and transformation. We continue to innovate by looking for new business opportunities through a mix of acquisitions and internal growth, developing our Interactive business, and pushing the envelope in print, online, and on-air media delivery.

For more information, including a listing of the key publications in each of our markets, please visit www.freedom.com/newspapers/community. Clicking on this link will open a new browser window, but be sure to come back to submit your resume!