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.

Description: Zimmer Communications has a position for an experienced graphic designer to work on our award-winning brands, including Inside Columbia magazine. You get to create and design both digital and print ads and magazine layouts in an environment teeming with local radio personalities, creative copywriters and passionate business owners. This role will include working within Zimmer Communications’ various properties, including those in Columbia, Jefferson City, Lake of the Ozarks and Springfield.

We are looking for a designer who has experience with magazine feature layouts, print design, ad design, vector illustration, and logo design. Candidate must have a willingness to embrace and research other brands and publications to grow their skills. Candidate should have between 2-5 years of professional experience as a designer, with a proven record of guiding projects proactively, intentionally and intuitively from concept to completion. The designer will work with the editors and the art director to create strong, compelling concepts and layouts that match each of our brands’ identities.

Magazine Graphic Designer Job Duties:

• Think creatively and develop new design concepts, graphics and layouts.

• Work as part of a team with editors, copywriters, designers, sales executives, etc.

• Design ads for clients in digital and print media.

• Develop the layout and print production design of magazines, e-newsletters, advertising, brochures, digital ads, signs and graphics.

• Completes projects by coordinating with outside agencies, art services, printers, etc.

• Maintains technical knowledge by attending design workshops and online tutorials; reviewing professional publications; participating in professional societies.

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

• Meet with clients and/or the art director to determine the scope of a project.

• Design for digital campaigns as needed.

• Create promotional displays, packaging, and marketing brochures.

Magazine Graphic Designer Skills and Qualifications:

Graphic Design Skills, Layout Skills, Creative Services, Customer Focus, Creativity, Flexibility, Attention to Detail, Deadline-Oriented, Desktop Publishing Tools, Acute Vision, Handles Constructive Criticism, Good Attitude, Responsive to Change

• Conceptual thinker

• Problem solver

• Detail-oriented

• Collaborative

• Client-minded

• Sense of urgency

• Able to manage multiple projects from start to finish

• Flexible to handle shifting priorities and multiple deadlines

• Can work independently or in groups

• Great communication skills

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite

• Ability to follow a brief and feedback from client to determine direction of a project

• Strong illustration ability to create graphics and visual images for layouts & logos.

• Innovative design sense incorporating photography and typography

What We Offer:

• Excellent benefits including a 401K, medical packages including optional dental and vision.

• A fun and entertaining work environment

• 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.

Job Type: Full-time