Digital Sales Strategist at Pulse

The role

• The digital sales strategist is a position we’re hiring in our Nairobi office.

Duties and responsibilities

• Identify business opportunities and develop effective strategies to approach and pitch our solutions and capabilities.
• Contribute to team effort by establishing high-level contacts and ensuring that the defined sales process is followed.
• Close deals and work towards set targets, ultimately positively impacting the revenues of the company.
• Manage client relationships and provide customers with excellent service and support.
• Work with the project execution teams to ensure customer goals are achieved.
• Continuously engage customers and client-side decision-makers to maintain close relationships in order to identify upsell or new business opportunities.

Skills that would make a candidate successful in this role

• Experience in a B2B sales or business development role
• Good understanding of digital media and digital marketing
• Proven ability to create effective digital marketing plans and strategies
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Great relationship-building and networking skills with direct clients and ad agencies
• Enthusiasm and a can-do attitude to deliver against set targets
• Bachelor’s degree - an MBA, MSc or CIM qualification is a plus
• Evidence of courses completed in digital marketing if no direct work experience