Digital Field Trainer - Sacramento, CA

Employee Type: Full-Time

Location: Sacramento, CA

Job Type: Training

Experience: 3 to 5 years

Date Posted: 2/24/2016

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Job Description

Do you enjoy helping others grow through teaching and training? Do you enjoy traveling and working in a fast-paced, team-driven environment? McClatchy is seeking a motivated, innovation-driven Digital Field Trainer to join our team and train staff on cutting-edge digital products and sales. You will be based in one of our markets, and have the opportunity to work remotely. Because you will be traveling to our different markets across the US, you must be willing and able to travel by car and airplane, approximately 50% of the time.

Who we are:

McClatchy is a leading news and information publisher offering news, information and marketing solutions in many of the nation's best markets. Every day, our talented employees create and deliver award-winning journalism and advertising solutions to growing audiences and businesses. Our digital and print publications lineup includes iconic brands such as the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte Observer, The (Raleigh) News and Observer, and the (Fort Worth) Star-Telegram. McClatchy is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif., and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.

In this role you will:

• Develop and maintain ongoing curriculum for digital products and digital sales strategies that include benchmarks to measure success;
• Develop reference collateral and learning tools to reinforce training curriculum;
• Work closely with corporate digital sales development managers and market sales managers to set each market’s specific training strategy including structure of curriculum and established benchmarks;
• Deliver in-market class-room style training, side-by-side field training and coaching as well as webinar sessions;
• Ensure sales teams and sales managers achieve mastery level understanding while successfully executing specific revenue objectives;
• Support the launch of new products with training that demonstrates use of the new product within the existing portfolio;
• Build strong relationships and credibility with the corporate digital team and market managers;
• Weekly/monthly reporting and tracking;
• Attend corporate digital sales meetings.

Job Requirements

Your Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field or equivalent work experience; 
• 3-5 years related digital experience;
• Digital product knowledge: SEM, target display, reputation and social;
• Digital sales and marketing knowledge;
• Experience developing digital product and sales training curriculum;
• Experience leading front-line training across all organizational levels;
• Experience establishing training mastery through set benchmarks;
• Proficient in the use of iPad/tablet presentations, video conferencing and webinar software;
• Advanced PC skills including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Must be able to adapt quickly and efficiently to change, and work well under pressure with tight deadlines;
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills to effectively present information to people at mulitple levels of the organization;
• Strong leadership skills;
• Ability to assess organizational needs and pro-actively develop customized plans to address unique market challenges;
• Valid driver's license required; 
• Frequent travel required (up to 50%). Must be willing to travel.

 What can McClatchy offer you?

• YOU can make a difference everyday;
• Work for a company that truly values the individual;
• Challenging, motivating, and a fun work environment. We believe that success comes from a dynamic working environment that offers professionals an opportunity to grow and succeed alongside extraordinary people.
• Company culture that is guided by our core values, thriving on passion, challenging employees to make a difference every day, with excellence for the people we support every day.

Join us and apply today!

We’d love for you to get to know who we are-our history-our culture-what matters most to us.

We are McClatchy.

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McClatchy offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a post-offer drug screen.

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