Zimmer Communications Career Opportunities

Overview: Spark business growth with local clients through customized advertising solutions. Through long term account management and consultative sales, provide unique advertising campaigns that utilize on air, digital, and print opportunities.

Why You Should Work Here:

• We focus on client relationship
• We offer a full line of benefits
• Competitive Base Salary + Monthly Bonus
• Focus on team and individual dynamic
• Ongoing training and personal development support
• Room for growth

Qualifications:

• A marketing or sales background, with proven success at finding decision makers, and guiding decisions
• Proven success at negotiation, closing business and new business development
• Proven experience at multi-tasking in a fast paced and dynamic environment while meeting goals and deadlines
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written with the ability to present to potential clients, often in a group
• Adaptability in building and cultivating long term relationships with a variety of businesses
• Ability to utilize strong listening skills, knowledge and curiosity to seek the best solutions for clients
• Proficient with PowerPoint, Excel and Microsoft Word
• Proven networking skills with the ability to attend events to improve business relationships
• Proven self-starter with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment
• Prefer a 4 year degree in applicable field

What We Offer:

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision.
• Vacation accrual from day 1, can earn 3 weeks after 5 years
• Paid holidays
• Ongoing training both in group meetings and individual one-on-one support
• Recognition awards

Expectations/Duties:

• Goal oriented with the purpose to achieve monthly and quarterly goals
• Actively prospect (phone and face to face) while servicing and building relationships with existing clients
• Conduct Customer Needs Analysis with clients and prospects to create unique solutions that match their business
• Build customized proposals by researching client industries and companies

Zimmer Communications is an equal opportunity employer.

Overview: Spark business growth with local clients through customized advertising solutions. Through long term account management and consultative sales, provide unique advertising campaigns that utilize on air, digital, and print opportunities.

Why You Should Work Here:

• We focus on client relationship
• We offer a full line of benefits
• Competitive Base Salary + Monthly Bonus
• Focus on team and individual dynamic
• Ongoing training and personal development support
• Room for growth

Qualifications:

• A marketing or sales background, with proven success at finding decision makers, and guiding decisions
• Proven success at negotiation, closing business and new business development
• Proven experience at multi-tasking in a fast paced and dynamic environment while meeting goals and deadlines
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written with the ability to present to potential clients, often in a group
• Adaptability in building and cultivating long term relationships with a variety of businesses
• Ability to utilize strong listening skills, knowledge and curiosity to seek the best solutions for clients
• Proficient with PowerPoint, Excel and Microsoft Word
• Proven networking skills with the ability to attend events to improve business relationships
• Proven self-starter with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment
• Prefer a 4 year degree in applicable field

What We Offer:

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision.
• Vacation accrual from day 1, can earn 3 weeks after 5 years
• Paid holidays
• Ongoing training both in group meetings and individual one-on-one support
• Recognition awards

Expectations/Duties:

• Goal oriented with the purpose to achieve monthly and quarterly goals
• Actively prospect (phone and face to face) while servicing and building relationships with existing clients
• Conduct Customer Needs Analysis with clients and prospects to create unique solutions that match their business
• Build customized proposals by researching client industries and companies

Key Responsibilities:

• Business to business sales, with superior management of both large and small accounts
• Prospecting, cold calling, and development of new sales opportunities
• Creation of client-focused sales plans to meet/exceed goals, and ensuring client needs are met
• Creation of client-focused sales plans to meet/exceed goals in conjunction with Target and Key Account development
• Conduct Customer Needs Analysis with clients and prospects to create unique solutions that match their business
• Assisting with collection efforts from clients

Critical Competencies For Success:

• Highly motivated and creative individual who is looking for ways to innovate
• Committed to building and developing new relationships
• Maintaining and building strong relationships with new and existing clients

Education/Qualifications

• 5 years+ business to business sales experience
• Proven success at negotiation, closing business and new business development
• Professional demeanor, and excellent verbal and written communication and customer service skills

Compensation/Benefits:

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision
• Vacation accrual from day 1
• Paid holidays
• Ongoing training both in group meetings and individual one-on-one support
• Recognition awards

Zimmer Communications is an equal opportunity employer.

What will you do?

• Contact businesses and set appointments to do a Needs Analysis
• Conduct a thorough Needs Analysis to discover their marketing opportunities
• Do thorough research on their industry
• Develop a unique advertising strategy based on their unique opportunities using our Internet Marketing strategies
• Prepare a written proposal of your research and strategies
• Present those ideas to the decision maker for that business
• Persuade that business owner to invest in your marketing idea
• Implement the marketing campaign
• Introduce additional or follow up campaigns to that same business

You will experience every aspect of Internet Advertising and Marketing with a variety of different business categories. After years of this experience and our training, you will be an experienced and qualified Marketing Consultant.

Candidates for this position should be hard working, driven to succeed, goal oriented, and a self-starter. You must have a past track record of success, leadership, and achievement. Passion and knowledge the latest trends on the Internet is a requirement. An entrepreneurial spirit would be essential in the success of this position. Creative problem solving abilities are a must.

Leaders in the broadcast marketing industry have recognized the Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group as having one of the most innovative training programs in the industry. And now we’ve extended our innovations to the Internet with properties including www.Midmobile.com, www.midmotoday.com and www.shopmidmo.com. When you join our team, you participate in a structured training program that will give you the opportunity to become a Marketing Consultant, not just a Media salesperson. Successful people in the Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group always have future growth opportunities and many have become Sales Managers, General Managers, Project Managers, Trainers, and Consultants.

Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group is an equal opportunity employer.

Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group in mid-Missouri is looking for more passionate people to join our team!

Some recent employees of ours have gone on to work for places like E! News, ESPN, TMZ, NBC Sports, Yahoo Sports, Sirius/XM and/or got jobs in cities like St. Louis, Kansas City, New York, Los Angeles, Bristol, and Houston.

We are always searching for dynamic on-air personalities and programmers for our music/spoken word formats, who understand that connecting with your audience is much more than just what you do over the air.

Formats: Country, CHR, News/Talk, Sports, Classic Rock, AC

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance package
• 401K with company match
• Vacation & Holidays

Who We Are:

We’re a Missouri-based, family-owned company with nine radio stations, three magazines, and a growing Interactive/Events department.

Our Core Values:

– PASSION – A passion for helping others and ourselves achieve success.
– RESPECT – Respect the time, talent and contribution of every individual.
– CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT- Be committed to continually improve professionally and personally.
– FUN – Life’s too short for anything else.
– LEADERSHIP – To rally teams toward achieving common objectives.
– OPENNESS – Always know where you stand. Never be afraid to share information.
– OWNERSHIP – Trust yourself and others to act quickly and independently. Take accountability for your actions.
– HUMILITY – Those who achieve the most brag the least.

Email your resume, mp3, short video, programming philosophy, social sites and anything else you feel we need to know about you to RadioJobs@ZRGmail.com.

No phone calls, please.

Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Zimmer Communications in Springfield, MO is looking for a news reporter/anchor and producer to deliver on air and digital content for our cluster of stations, including 93-3 and A-M 560 KWTO, 98-7 The Dove, 101-3 Real Country, and 96-9, 99-9 and A-M 1060 ESPN The Jock.
KWTO has recently been recognized with 1st place and certificate of merit awards by the Missouri Broadcasters Association.

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance package
• 401K with company match
• Vacation & Holidays

Who We Are:

We’re a Missouri-based, family-owned company with nine radio stations, three magazines, and a growing Interactive/Events department.

Our Core Values:

– PASSION – A passion for helping others and ourselves achieve success.
– RESPECT – Respect the time, talent and contribution of every individual.
– CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT- Be committed to continually improve professionally and personally.
– FUN – Life’s too short for anything else.
– LEADERSHIP – To rally teams toward achieving common objectives.
– OPENNESS – Always know where you stand. Never be afraid to share information.
– OWNERSHIP – Trust yourself and others to act quickly and independently. Take accountability for your actions.
– HUMILITY – Those who achieve the most brag the least.

Experience: Experience with broadcast news writing and anchoring are preferred, though we are willing to train the right person with the right attitude. Good grammar and verbal communications stills are a must.

Requirements: You will be responsible for writing news stories and anchoring newscasts on each of our Zimmer stations in Springfield, as well as posting stories on our station websites and social media accounts. This position requires flexibility and versatility to cover breaking news and severe weather, public meetings and press conferences, produce various shows on our stations, and other related duties assigned by station management.
Additional Information: We’re a Missouri-based, family-owned company with nine radio stations, three magazines and a growing Digital/Events department.

Email your resume, mp3, short video, programming philosophy, social sites and anything else you feel we need to know about you to RadioJobs@ZRGmail.com.

No phone calls, please.

Zimmer Radio & Marketing Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Zimmer Communications is growing! Zimmer is looking to add a UI Designer to our team. The UI Designer would be responsible for building, designing and optimizing websites for both internal properties and clients.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualizing creative ideas with clients, designing and integrating brand identity.
• Involved in establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Maintaining the appearance of websites by enforcing content standards.
• Designing visual imagery for websites and ensuring that they are in line with branding for clients.
• Working with different content management systems, primarily WordPress.
• Communicating design ideas using user flows, process flows, site maps, and wireframes.
• Incorporating functionalities and features into websites.
• Designing sample pages including colors and fonts.
• Preparing design plans and presenting the website structure.

Qualifications

• A relevant diploma in a related field.
• Proficiency in graphic design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other visual design tools.
• Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as HTML and CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of content management systems, primarily WordPress.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Adaptable and willing to learn new techniques.

Compensation & Benefits

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision
• Vacation accrual from day 1
• Paid holidays
• Ongoing training both in group meetings and individual one-on-one support
• Recognition awards

Zimmer Communications is an equal opportunity employer.

Description

The Content Writer works with the Lead Consultant and is there as a support person to help oversee all content-related needs and deliverables for the client base. In most cases, the Lead Consultant will delegate to the Content Writer as needed – but in some processes (like creating blog posts, etc.) the Content Writer will be responsible for overseeing that task and will work directly with the client (keeping the Consultant looped in on everything.)

Primary Responsibilities

Onboarding Clients and Developing Strategy

The Content Writer will support the Consultant in key areas of the strategy development during the discovery and onboarding stage – this typically includes

• Blog audit
• Content audit
• Development of a style guide
• Keyword research / SEO strategy
• Development of the Content Calendar
• Using the buyer’s journey for content mapping
• Developing title ideas out of brainstorms and research

Content Creation:

Oversee management and creation of all content needs for the client including

• Management of the Content Calendar and content tracking
• Research and outline creation
• Managing writers and designers / submitting
• Editing and proofing all content so it’s publish-ready
• Submitting content approvals to client
• Providing design direction as needed

Uploading blog posts

Track all expenses and numbers related to content creation for clients including

• Blog posts/content created each month by client and type of content
• Cost of each
• Total expenses on monthly basis

Copywriting:

Support the Lead Consultant with copywriting needs as needed including

• Landing pages
• CTAs
• Website pages
• Emails
• Social media posts

Ongoing Consulting

• While the Content Writer does not need to be on all the consulting calls, they will be available to be on any where content is a major topic. They may run some meetings when it makes sense based on the topic and client.

Reporting

• Be able to pull content related data and build reports to share with client around content performance.

Compensation and Benefits

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision.
• Vacation accrual from day 1
• Paid holidays
• Ongoing training both in group meetings and individual one-on-one support
• Recognition awards

Are you a good writer and want to have your creativity shared in Columbia’s premier magazine? Do you enjoy writing engaging copy and promoting the city in upbeat, fun content? If so, we may have the job for you.

This position with Inside Columbia magazine assists with the content for our award-winning bi-monthly city magazine and ancillary publications. He or she researches and writes stories; coordinates and writes our seven e-newsletters; works with freelance writers and editors; maintains editorial deadlines; assists the sales department with special advertising sections; and safeguards the editorial integrity of the product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with editor to research and select story topics for bi-monthly city magazine and ancillary publications.
• Makes photo suggestions and follows up as needed with photo editor.
• Writes department and feature content for Inside Columbia magazine.
• Responsible for the content of our seven e-newsletters that serve niche audiences in Columbia and makes photo recommendations.
• Reviews and edits all submitted content. Performs final copy edit before approving finals for the printer.
• Writes advertising copy, sales sheets and collateral marketing material for the magazine and within departments within the company.
• Participates in company-sponsored events.
• Participates in the community in a volunteer capacity on boards and committees.

Minimum Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in journalism or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Preferably one to three years of experience in the journalism or marketing field, specifically in the content creation field.
• Superior writing and reporting skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Associated Press style
• Ability to manage multiple projects and diverse personalities.
• Ability to hit and meet deadlines while maintaining a positive attitude. Willingness to work beyond normal business hours prior to press deadline.
• A grasp of social medial platforms and digital publishing technology and a willingness to keep up with new trends.
• An in-depth knowledge of the community.

Zimmer Communications is looking for a Front Desk Receptionist to manage our front desk on a daily basis and to perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. As a Front Desk Receptionist, you will be the first point of contact for Zimmer Communications. Our Front Desk Receptionist’s duties include offering administrative support across the organization. You will welcome guests and greet people who visit the business. You will coordinate front-desk activities, including distributing correspondence and redirecting phone calls.

Key Responsibilities

• Greet incoming guests, providing excellent guest experience for all visitors
• Direct visitors to the appropriate person and office
• Answer, screen and forward incoming phone calls
• Ensure reception area is tidy and presentable, with all necessary stationery and material
• Provide basic and accurate information in-person and via phone/email
• Receive, sort and distribute daily mail/deliveries
• Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk
• Maintain full inventory of office supplies for Columbia office, placing bulk orders as needed

Minimum Requirements

• Greet incoming guests, providing excellent guest experience for all visitors
• Direct visitors to the appropriate person and office
• Answer, screen and forward incoming phone calls
• Ensure reception area is tidy and presentable, with all necessary stationery and material
• Provide basic and accurate information in-person and via phone/email
• Receive, sort and distribute daily mail/deliveries
• Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk
• Maintain full inventory of office supplies for Columbia office, placing bulk orders as needed

Zimmer Communications in Columbia/Jefferson City, MO is looking for a Part-Time news reporter to deliver on air and digital content for our cluster of stations, including 939 The Eagle, KWOS, and KFAL.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES:

You will be responsible for gathering and writing news stories and anchoring newscasts on 3 of our stations, as well as posting stories on our station websites and social media accounts, and other related duties assigned by station management. Weekday Afternoon hours will be required. This opportunity will give the candidate the chance to grow their skills in broadcast journalism.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience with broadcast news writing and anchoring are preferred, though we are willing to train the right person with the right attitude. Good grammar, verbal communication, and strong computer skills are a must. Candidate should also be detail oriented, and be able to multi-task and handle interruptions, possessing the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.