KIAH-TV CW39 Houston is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and creative problem-solver to join our team as a Sales Assistant. This critical role ensures the success of post-sale campaign execution, playing an essential part in the station's revenue growth. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at managing complex processes, and has a passion for delivering exceptional client experiences.
As Sales Assistant, you will oversee all aspects of post-sale activities for assigned clients, ensuring seamless execution, optimization, and reporting of campaigns. Acting as a key liaison between sales, traffic, and clients, you’ll bring strategic thinking and proactive solutions to every stage of the campaign lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Campaign Execution & Stewardship
- Manage and facilitate the execution of large-scale and complex advertising campaigns.
- Transition sales orders into traffic-ready status, ensuring copy instructions and revisions are accurately communicated and processed.
- Collaboration & Problem-Solving
- Serve as the primary business partner for sales, traffic, and other internal teams to meet client needs.
- Interpret contract requirements, resolve discrepancies, and develop creative solutions to meet client expectations, including make-goods and under-delivery resolutions.
- Performance Analysis & Reporting
- Review pre-empt notices, oversell reports, and other inventory metrics to proactively address issues.
- Create ad hoc performance reports with actionable insights, analyzing campaign effectiveness and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Process Improvement
- Develop and implement best practices to streamline campaign processes and establish metrics to measure success.
- Lead efforts to identify efficiencies and enhance future campaign performance.
- Event & Marketing Support
- Collaborate with the station’s marketing and promotional teams to support external event activations, grassroots campaigns, and experiential marketing initiatives.
- Assist in planning and executing station promotional events to increase brand visibility and community engagement.
- Additional Responsibilities
- Support other tasks or responsibilities as assigned by station leadership to meet evolving business needs.
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Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, Communications, or a related field (preferred but not required).
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strategic thinking with a focus on creative problem-solving and delivering results.
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Why Join Us?
At KIAH-TV CW39 Houston, we pride ourselves on our core values of Inclusion, Community, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence (I-CARE). Joining our team means becoming part of a mission-driven organization committed to connecting, informing, and entertaining our diverse community with integrity and passion.
What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions.
In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers.
From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
