Description

About Gray Media:

Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.

About KFDA:

KFDA is located in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. We have built a dominant station in our market through hard work, dedication to journalism, and being diligent who who we pick to come work with us, we are looking for those who want to make a difference.

Job Summary/Description:

Do you have a strong competitive drive and determination to win? Are you a natural relationship builder and collaborator? If so, a fantastic opportunity awaits as a Media Executive in Amarillo, Texas (CBS). Bring your tenacity, great communication skills, and ability to close new business, and you will get rewarded well for your efforts. You will have the opportunity to sell across all KFDA's television and digital platforms, providing advertising solutions to new customers that will help them generate sales and increase profitability. This is a fast-paced and fun business that requires persistence, organization, creativity, and interpersonal skills.

Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Build, present, sell, and execute cross-platform advertising campaigns
- Prospect and sell new business, using television and digital products
- Create client recaps, demonstrating the delivery and effectiveness of advertising campaigns
- Exceed budget through new and existing business development
- Candidates must be detail-oriented and have excellent communication & customer service skills

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Candidates must be detail-oriented and have excellent communication & customer service skills
- Self-starter, with the ability to interact and influence others in a positive manner while working in a fast-paced environment
- High achiever with excellent communication skills, creativity, and persistence
- Strong work ethic and integrity, problem-solving, and organizational skills

If you feel you're qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on "apply now", upload your resume, cover letter, and references

(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)

KFDA-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

Additional Info:

Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Gray Media expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.