An exciting new advertising sales role for Live Magazine’s new JHB office.
Live Magazine is South Africa’s highest circulating free youth magazine, distributed every 3 months across the country’s major cities.
We are now looking for a sales executive to develop, follow-up and close advertising leads, create and grow partnerships with brands and agencies in Johannesburg. You’ll be working in conjunction with our Cape Town sales team, based out of Live’s new office in Braamfontein.
You’ll need to be super-friendly, dynamic, ambitious, persistent, with a thick skin, proven sales experience, a good sense of humour and ability to pick up the phone and make things happen. A good knowledge of the SA magazine scene, the youth sector and thick address book will be a huge advantage.
Some of the biggest and best brands are now working with Live Magazine as advertisers and sponsors: we need you to help grow this list…
A burning passion to make the world a better place by using your professional skills would also help…
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ABOUT LIVE MAGAZINE SA
Live Magazine SA is a quarterly youth culture publication originally from London: which includes a glossy youth magazine and mobi channel featuring an inspirational mix of gritty youth culture and information, advice, career guidance and things to do for a youth audience.
The twist: everything in the magazine is produced by young people themselves, from the commissioning and editing, to the design, layout and distribution. Its mission: to give life-changing skills development and employability training for its participants, and to educate and inspire tens of thousands of young readers with an inspiring, engaging and entertaining mix of arts, culture, sports and fashion mixed with hard-hitting youth issues and crucial information and guidance for young people.
Seed funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, Live Magazine gives opportunities to a core team of dedicated young people to take ownership of their own publication, and provide relevant and credible youth content for hundreds of thousands of young South African readers.
For more info, check out:
www.livemag.co.za
www.livityafrica.com
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Closing date for applications: Feb 27th
Salary based on experience.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to gavin (at) livityafrica (dot) com
