Manager, Social Sales & Newsletters

Forbes Media is hiring a Manager, Social Sales & Newsletters to join our AI & Strategic Platforms team. This role will focus on driving revenue, strategic business development and representing the social and newsletter products at Forbes. This includes collaborating with key stakeholders at Forbes to drive sales, develop creative strategy for social activations, create new products and work with clients on bringing social advertising to life. This role will report into the Senior Director, Client Activation & Paid Social.

Our office operates as a remote and hybrid workforce, with in-person collaboration expected for certain roles. Based on the responsibilities of this position, a hybrid work schedule with a minimum of one in-person collaboration day per week at our Jersey City, NJ headquarters is expected.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with the sales team to drive revenue and sales for social advertising business, ensuring revenue goals are hit quarterly and annually. 
• Manage day-to-day sales requests providing targeting information and inventory requests to sales planners & reps to assist in their pre-sale initiatives 
• Collaborate with the sales team to drive revenue and sales for newsletter partnerships, ensuring revenue goals are hit quarterly and annually. 
• Participating in client-facing conversations as a social media and newsletter expert on behalf of Forbes when needed
• Brainstorm and ideate social & newsletter packages attached to Forbes’ products including editorial, live partnerships, content and social only
• Brainstorm and bring to market new social activations and opportunities for Forbes Live Event advertisers 
• Liaison with key Forbes stakeholders including sales reps, account managers, sales planners, editorial social, live programming, integrated marketing, video producers, etc. 
• Attend live events and partner with stakeholders to ensure contracted social elements for clients are operating smoothly when necessary 
• Manage communications and organization from pre-sale to post-sale including managing tracker of programs, working on brainstorms in pre-sale, joining kick off calls in post-sale, looping in social activation and newsletter teams and providing campaign details
• Partner with external partners including LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok, influencer talent agencies, etc. 

The Ideal Candidate: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or a related field
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of social media best practices, trends and advertising on social platforms
• Creative storyteller 
• Creator economy experience a must 
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Google Drive 
• Strong project management and organizational skills 
• Ability to multi-task, efficiently manage time and prioritize deliverables 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 
• Self-starter

The annual base salary range for this role is $80,000 - $85,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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