Senior Sales Agent

This is a Full Time Job

New York - Lexington Ave

The Role and What You'll Do:

The Harry Walker Agency is seeking a Senior Agent for an out-bound sales role to manage and grow the company's customer accounts, focusing on closing deals, meeting revenue targets, and building strong client relationships. The candidate must be goal oriented with excellent written and oral communication skills. Experience working with CRMs and technology are essential. Experience in the Lecture or Events industry, Public Relations or Politics, is a plus but not essential.

Key Responsibilities:
• Handle a high volume of client-facing work, including driving results from client relationships.
• Create and maintain a plan to keep in contact with those who make purchasing or program decisions.
• Manage all contact between sponsors and the agency for the life of the relationship.
• Actively create opportunities for our speakers and shepherd these opportunities through to firm offers and contracts.

You Have These:
• At least 8 years of experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential. Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials in a timely manner
• Candidate must have strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community
• Ability to find creative solutions and maintain a positive attitude
• Attention to detail
• Interested reading knowledge of current affairs and business trends

Compensation:

The Senior Agent will receive a base salary of $75K plus monthly commission based on revenue they brought into the agency through their efforts. Total compensation (salary + commission) is expected to range between $150,000 and $200,000 in the first year, but could be higher based off the commission amount earned by the agent.

How We work:

WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the range shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Range Minimum:
$60,406 annually

Hiring Range Maximum:
$75,000 annually

WME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.