Time Out Singapore is looking for a knowledgeable and passionate food editor to lead its newly-expanded food section.
Responsibilities
– Writing, commissioning and editing a 10-page section every month, to deadline.
- Acting as one of the magazine’s key ambassadors in the city.
Requirements
– A broad knowledge of the Singapore food scene.
– At least two years’ relevant experience.
– Strong writing ability and the flexibility to cover everything from hawker food to fine dining and the latest burger joint, all in an authoritative but fun and accessible way.
- A solid knowledge of the Time Out brand and its values.
Deadline for applicants: 5pm, Monday 14 May
Please send all applications to: toby.skinner@ink-global.com
Time Out Singapore is looking for a talented associate editor to work on its monthly magazine.
Responsibilities
– Overseeing 2-3 key sections of the magazine.
– Writing, commissioning and editing copy.
- Editing layouts on screen using InDesign.
Requirements
– At least two years’ experience as an editor on an international magazine title.
– A sharp editorial mind, enthusiasm and bags of ideas.
– A solid knowledge of the Time Out brand and its values.
- Knowledge of Singapore is a major bonus but not essential.
Deadline for applicants: 5pm, Monday 14 May
Please send all applications to: toby.skinner@ink-global.com
JOB TITLE: MEDIA SALES SPECIALIST
Ink is looking for talented people who have the drive, passion and winning attitude to sell advertising opportunities for JETSTAR MAGAZINE.
We are looking for people whose approach to life is to paint like Michelangelo, or sing like Lady Gaga.
The people we’re looking for will be based in Sydney or Melbourne and seek the flexibility of working from home.
For the truly adventurous, opportunities exist to relocate to Singapore.
Responsibilities
• Understanding the sales process by both telephone as well as face-to-face methods, and the ability to communicate value is essential.
• You will preferably have minimum three years’ media sales experience, a familiarity with the Australian media landscape and established agency contacts.
• You will be responsible for developing new sales territories and maximising advertising revenues from them.
Requirements
• Able to work independently
• Motivated to succeed
• Tenacious
• Ambitious
• Resourceful
• Able to demonstrate excellent sales process
• Positive — with the ability to self motivate
• Commercially aware
• Able to manage the pressure of a dynamic sales culture
• Prepared to travel
• An excellent communicator
• Able to plan and implement agreed strategies under little supervision
We offer
• A positive working culture to support and enhance your performance potential
• An excellent and ongoing ISMM certified personal development program to help you grow your talent
About Ink
Ink is a travel media company. We help our customers achieve their commercial objectives by connecting companies with travellers.
As well as being the largest publisher of inflight magazines in the world, Ink reaches a captive audience of hundreds of millions of travellers each year with targeted digital advertising on print-at-home boarding passes and inflight entertainment systems, inflight retail publications, and by producing the Airline Retail Conference in Europe and Asia.
Airline clients around the world include Air Macau, AirTran Airways, Bangkok Airways, bmi, bmibaby, Brussels Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Delta Air Lines, easyJet, Germanwings, Gulf Air, Jazeera Airways, Jet2.com, Jetstar Airlines, Jetstar Asia Airways, KLM, Martinair, PrivatAir, Ryanair, SA Express, Thai Airways, Tiger Airways, Thomas Cook, United Airlines, vivaAerobus and Wizz Air. The company also produces Metropolitan for Eurostar, CNBC Business magazine, Time Out Singapore magazine, and TurboJet Horizon for the world’s largest ferry company.
Ink serves advertisers and airlines in over 100 countries, and has offices in London, New York, Singapore and Atlanta. Please refer to www.ink-global.com for more information.
Please send your resume and an accompanying letter (in WORD) stating why your application should be considered by email to Group Publisher Michelle Kavanagh at michelle.kavanagh@ink-global.com
Only short listed applicants will be notified.
The area: Sales Training & Development
Ink connects companies with travellers. In doing so, we help our clients to achieve their commercial objectives. We offer our customers the opportunity to reach a captive audience of affluent travellers at a time when they are uniquely receptive to marketing messages.
Our approach to people development is to work with every individual to help them reach and maximise their potential. Our international teams sell media space in magazines and through highly targeted channels directly to our advertisers and via their agencies. Advertising sales team members work hard to identify potential clients, understand their commercial objectives and present compelling ways to help achieve them. As part of the sales process, we evangelise and educate about how our media platforms can help grow our customers’ business.
The role: Sales Development Manager
The role of the Sales Development Manager is to design and deliver all sales development initiatives and ongoing coaching within the Singapore office.
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will be responsible for ensuring that an overall sales training process is followed. This includes induction of all sales staff, regular structured training and development programmes, side by side coaching and dual calling, and reactive one to one and group development sessions.
Responsibilities:
– Design, deliver and review of all sales development initiatives, including product knowledge, sales process and technique, negotiation and objection handling, presentation skills and closing.
– Management of the new starter foundation programme so all new sales staff receive a thorough induction to Ink Singapore.
– Align product training to the PCMC sales process and ensure it is used daily in our sales culture.
– Design of all in house course material.
– To ensure we apply all the latest thinking in terms of performance management and that we are seen as ABOVE VALUE in the market place and are the preferred employer in Singapore.
– Investigate and apply the best sales, motivational, cultural and leadership principles.
– To conduct training and coaching in the Singapore office using a variety of methods including classroom, live coaching, audio and visual and accelerated learning techniques.
– Hit all performance criteria within the role.
– Act as a consultant to the leadership team advising on learning, coaching and tactics to drive each sales staff to achieve their performance potential.
– Working with the MD to communicate and manage the people strategy and business culture through cultural prompts, language and behaviour.
– Take responsibility for the planning and management of the recruitment process.
– Conduct a quarterly skills audit
- To work with the Commercial Leadership team to ensure that training and development is in line with the commercial strategy, with individual appraisals and in line with a succession strategy
Requirements:
– Committed to building and encouraging competencies.
– At least 3-5 years experience in advertising sales/marketing and sales management.
– Experience in training and coaching in a commercial environment, ideally with accreditation in a training and sales background.
– Professional manner with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to train both individuals and large groups in a confident and personal manner.
– Enthusiasm and drive with the genuine desire to develop and broaden both your own and the sales teams’ knowledge and experience.
– The ability to prioritise and manage your own time, be a self starter and be able to drive initiatives.
– Excellent oral and written communication skills delivering accelerated learning in line with Ink’s 3 year growth plan.
– A deep understanding of the industry’s issues, a vision for its growth.
– An understanding of the Asian market is desirable but not essential.
Reporting to: Managing Director
The area: Sales
Ink connects companies with travellers. In doing so, we help our clients to achieve their commercial objectives. Our media gives our advertising customers the opportunity to reach a captive audience of affluent travellers at a time when they are uniquely receptive to marketing messages.
The role: Sales Specialist
We are looking for people who have passion, enthusiasm and a "winning attitude" to join our already successful magazine advertising sales teams. Our positive work culture and your hunger to be the best in the world will mean you will achieve your performance potential on a daily basis.
You will be selling multiplatform inventory to customers across the region by telephone, so an understanding of the sales process or the desire to learn is essential.
In return, you will work in a culture which is positive to performance, believes in giving coaching and training to enhance your performance. Recently our training course has been certified as an ISMM (The Institute of Sales & Marketing Management) ISMM endorsement is the badge of recognition for high quality sales training programmes. The Institute of Sales & Marketing Management (ISMM) is the UK’s only professional body for salespeople, founded in 1911 to promote standards of excellence in sales and sales management and to enhance the status and profile of sales as a profession.
Great office location, superb performing teams and working for the most dynamic and fastest growing media companies in Asia are just part of the reason why you need to apply now; and our leadership team and culture are committed to leaving you better than we found you.
Main Focus:
– To sell advertising in market leading publications
– Achieve individual and magazine sales targets
– Making sure our advertisers are "delighted" with our service and that we are helping their business grow
– To leave people better than you find them
- To be Best in the world
Responsibilities:
– Development of commercial opportunities
– To manage existing client territory
– Grow market share of revenue and categories
- To find new clients and develop into long term relationships
Requirements:
– Motivated to be successful
– Tenacious
– Ambitious
– Resourceful
– Positive – with the ability to self motivate
– Able to demonstrate or learn excellent sales process
– Commercial aware
– Be able to be part of a of a dynamic sales culture
– Prepared to travel
– Have superb communication skills
- Have the ability to plan and implement a plan under little supervision
If you would like to apply please send your CV to sally.heathcote@ink-global.com
Please note that this recruitment drive is being driven through our Recruitment Manager based in London, first stage interviews will be help over Skype or telephone prior to Sally Heathcote arriving in Singapore on April 4th 2011