Total 5 shipping executive job vacancies in PR / Media / Communications category in Singapore Polytechnic

What do we expect from you?

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Event Sales Executive to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving event sales, building strong client relationships, and ensuring the successful execution of events. This role involves collaborating with internal departments to deliver exceptional guest experiences while achieving revenue goals.

How your day looks like?

Sales and Business Development

• Proactively identify, target, and secure event sales opportunities, including corporate events, weddings, social gatherings.
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients through regular sales calls, networking events, and site visits.
• Prepare and deliver persuasive proposals and presentations tailored to clients’ needs.
• Negotiate contracts and ensure agreements align with company revenue objectives.
• Meet or exceed monthly and yearly event sales targets.

Event Planning and Coordination

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients from the inquiry stage through event completion.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including catering, banquet operations, and audiovisual, to ensure smooth event execution.
• Oversee event details, including menus, layouts, timelines, and special requests, ensuring all requirements are met.
• Conduct site inspections and showcase event spaces to prospective clients.

Administrative Duties

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of sales activities and client communications in the CRM system.
• Provide timely reports on sales performance, market trends, and competitor activity.
• Assist in creating marketing materials and packages for event sales promotion.

How do I deliver this?

• Tell it like it is- Authentic, honest, you mean it, sincere, true.
• Have fun and make friends - fun, energetic, whimsical, upbeat, “wink", casual.
• I've got your back- Accountable, responsible, makes up for own promises, knows how to take ownership, follows - thru, dependable.
• Play to win - Original, cutting edge, new, "outside the box”; open to new possibilities, different.
• Right here, right now - Attentive, detail-oriented, always focused, always in the moment, precise, owns the guest.

PRISM+ is the largest Singaporean direct-to-consmer smart home appliances brand. Our mission is to offer cutting-edge products to the masses at affordable prices. We are a rapidly growing, ever-evolving organisation, and we are seeking new teammates to join us on our exciting journey.

We are seeking an experienced, driven, and results-oriented Media Sales Executive to work on a high-priority, confidential media sales project. This role is pivotal in driving new business opportunities, building strong client relationships, and ensuring revenue growth in the media space. The selected candidate will work with a confidential and strategic project that requires discretion, innovation, and an exceptional understanding of the media industry.

• Develop and implement tailored media sales strategies aligned with the goals of a confidential project, ensuring a focus on achieving revenue targets.
• Build, manage, and nurture relationships with high-level clients in various industries, ensuring long-term partnerships.
• Pitching & Presentations: Create and deliver compelling sales pitches and presentations to potential clients, emphasizing the unique offerings and value of the project.
• Conduct in-depth research to identify new business opportunities, target markets, and client needs to drive project success.
• Proactively identify, secure, and close new business deals, with a focus on achieving and exceeding sales targets for the project.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including marketing, project management, and leadership to ensure the seamless execution of the project and client deliverables.
• Lead negotiations, close deals, and ensure contract terms align with business objectives while maintaining a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Regularly report on sales performance, including pipeline management and forecast revenue, ensuring transparency with the leadership team.

• Minimum of 5 years in media sales, digital sales, or advertising, with a proven track record of achieving sales targets and managing complex sales cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• Exceptional sales skills, including lead generation, relationship building, negotiation, and closing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to craft persuasive sales proposals and presentations.
• Ability to think creatively and adapt strategies to meet the specific needs of the confidential project.
• Experience in managing and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with CRM systems, media buying platforms, and digital sales tools.

Media Buying (Offline and/or Online)

• The day-to-day media buying for the agency
• Deliver excellent master contract pricing through negotiation and relationships with media owners, wherever applicable
• Develop understanding of client business and role of online in delivering objectives ways of working from planning to getting approval and billing process
• Deliver added value opportunities across clients wherever possible
• Book all campaigns according to the brief (with confirmed media) and ensure financials are correct.
• Monitor campaign delivery and reconcile any under deliveries.
• Assist with auditing process across specific client base.
• Follow through the closed job for invoicing process (incl. (proof of ads, supplier invoices, TV reporting, signed schedule)
• Constantly monitor performance and delivery of ad server and vendor reporting. 
• Monitor and report on clients’ expenditure update by campaign by media, if needed
• Keep track of clients’ media master contract fulfilments.
• Work closely with Planners to ensure all the media plans are as per latest MOCO template and make sure all elements are incorporated.
• Prepare CI for all mediums and help Planners manage all material submission timelines.

Billing Admin

Manage the media billing processes which involves,

• Co-coordinating with media planning teams on billing instructions
• Processing billing instructions with finance/shared service teams
• Mapping vendor invoices against billing instructions
• Resolving billing discrepancies with relevant stakeholders e.g. media vendors, media, finance and shared service teams
• Billing status monitoring and reporting
• Media plan actualization and reconciliation on monthly basis. Support Planners to update the media plans based on actualized amount.
• Participate in finance WIP & Precision billing meetings to make sure Client's invoices get processed and meet billing timelines.
• Maintain co-ownership of WIP report with finance team, ensure that jobs are progressively reconciled and closed

Other billing requirements include,

• Support requirements for onboarding of new suppliers
• Ensure 100% billing completion before end of following month of activity
• Resolve/respond to client billing queries

We are hiring for a client-facing role with integrated buying, planning and activation capabilities, covering all analog & digital channels including programmatic & biddable platforms. This role opens up your world to the beauty of media in the advertising world. You will pick up skills on how to creatively integrate both traditional and digital elements into the overall media mix of advertising campaigns while managing the day-to-day planning, buying, implementation, optimization and reporting requirements to meet client objectives.

If you are known to be meticulous, strong with numbers and curious about the media world, we want to talk to you!

Expectations of a Media Executive:

1. Planning 

• Partner your Planner to develop media plans with clear rationalization, channel recommendations and prepare the detailed media flow plan
• Liaise with media owners for proposals
• Engage clients and creative agencies on day to day operations, competitive tracking & reviews, media trend updates and various campaign reports on local/regional levels

2. Buying  

• Negotiation with media owners for better rates and value adds
• Booking of ads and setup of digital ads– both managed service and self-service
• Prepare Copy Instructions/material specs, liaise with media vendors & creative agencies for material submission 
• Digital ad operations (campaign set up on self-serve platforms, tagging of ads and client’s site, ensure ads are properly served and tags are firing) 
• Monitor ads during campaign period, weekly digital reporting, end of campaign reporting and reconciliation of final costs for finance billings 
• Competitive monitoring for offline media (ADEX) and digital media tracking 

Expectations of a Media Executive:

• Develop expertise in media, technology & research tools & platforms
• Have clear understanding of basic cost structure, campaign set-up process & way of buying ad space for different channels - digital (social, programmatic, search, mobile, etc.), print, TV, OOH, radio
• Assist in developing costing and data collection for planning, recommendations or analyses
• Pick up simple digital campaign optimisation
• Develop media diary & copy instructions based on the media plans & proposals
• Manage media booking deadlines, and ensure material deadlines are clearly communicated and managed with the client/creative team
• Identify issues with creative and troubleshoot
• Be responsible and accountable for timely delivery of reports and recommendations