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Radio Creative, Xfm (Scotland)

Xfm (Scotland) is owned by GCap Media
This job is located in Glasgow (map)
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What! Someone actually gets paid to write radio commercials?
Och aye!

Think you've got what it takes to write jaw dropping radio commercials?
XFM Scotland is looking for someone with brilliant ideas and the drive to get them to air. As well as radio campaigns, you'll also be involved in loads of cool, cross-platform stuff like pod and vodcasts...ideas which make serious money for our clients.





And here's the technical bit...
FULL JOB SPEC.


Job title: Creative Consultant

Reports: Head of Sales/ Regional Creative Manager

Location: XFM Scotland, Glasgow

Role Objective and Context:
To offer creative-led sell opportunities to a sales team by presenting imaginative, results driven ideas to our clients.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• To take a brief, formulate a creative concept to meet the objectives of that brief and “sell” the concept to advertisers as part of the creative-led sell.
• To help identify and qualify new business advertisers.
• To appropriately cast (and occasionally direct) the production of commercials to maximum creative effect.
• To contribute positively and effectively in all sales meetings, sales inductions and creative-led sell training.
• Responsible for the accurate reporting of revenue and forecasting
• To participate effectively in a dispersed regional creative team.
• Adhere to group standard of behaviour and implement group HR, IT and Finance policies

Key measures of success:
• Delivery of creative writing goals as agreed with the Head of Sales.
• Delivery of creative revenue targets.
• Amount of airtime revenue generated through the creative-led sell.
• Client and industry recognition (awards and PR) of creative output.

Experience and Skills:
• General knowledge of media businesses and of the types of businesses that purchase commercial air time and creative
• A good understanding of commercial issues including RACC guidelines and regulations
• Will be able to work alone and in support of a geographically-dispersed regional team to reach creative and sales targets.
• Able to communicate with advertisers, agencies and sales teams to provide a high level of customer service.
• Able to accurately forecast and report revenue, dealing with any accounts or traffic query
• Able to communicate creative sales tools and presentations to your sales teams in a clear and motivating.
• Able to understand, meet and contribute to the overall business objectives of the Creative Dept.
• A good knowledge of voiceovers, voice agents (and their clients) music production companies and studios.

Personal Characteristics:
• Creativity - To be creative and imaginative in driving department sales opportunities for clients to consider.
• Self awareness and confidence
• Personal integrity – ability for others to trust quickly
• Straight talking, honest and a good team player
• Drive and determination (gets things done)
• Flexible and able to handle multiple tasks
• Enthusiastic and persuasive

Key Working Relationships:
• The Regional Creative Manager and Head of Sales
• Other Creative Consultants and the Creative Production team
• Traffic team
• All other Company departments i.e. Finance, HR, IT etc
• Clients

To apply:
Up for it?
Send your CV with a covering letter displaying your skill and imagination to rob.mclaggangcapmedia.com

Closed on: Tuesday 27 May | Views: 1,540 so far
Posted by Mark_devlin on Tuesday 29 April 2008
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