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A well-established and innovative advertising software company is looking for an experienced TV Network Ad Sales Operations Manager. If you are a strategic thinker, have managed sales operations and pricing for Broadcast or Cable Television networks and up for a new and exciting challenge – then this is the job for you We are seeking a high-energy and self-starting individual who can hit the ground running.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for all operational and developing pricing methodology aspects of TV network ad sales
  • Creating and managing television network sales operations processes including transactional processing and software sourcing
  • Strategically and tactically increase efficiency from an operational perspective in sales services to position a TV Network team for growth
  • Teach and/or facilitate all “operational functions” for sales account executives
  • Reinforce excellence in the planning and schedule maintenance process
  • Lead and manage operational reporting for TV network sales team – including tracking sales results versus individual objectives, maintaining and reporting sales plans, annual and monthly revenue tracking and reporting, ad hoc reporting, contract processing, and data analytics
  • Work with management and sales team to developing TV network sales operations strategies and implement transactional solutions for ‘added value’ contracts
  • Identify gaps in sales and operational initiatives and create solutions!
  • Manage and track all steps of sales operational process – from CRM to receipt of cash
  • Keep current with TV network research and advertising industry to understand target market needs

    Skills/Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree, business emphasis preferred
  • Proven track-record planning and executing sales operation strategies
  • 5+ years experience managing Sales Operations and Pricing for Broadcast or Cable Television Network
  • 3-5 years experience with either Salesforce.com system or other CRM systems a plus
  • Strong TV network background and understanding required
  • Experience planning large, multi-faceted sales and operations initiatives; ability to develop clear action plans and drive processes with numerous interdependencies
  • Successful track record of working with high-level managers and executives within the organization and with current/potential clients
  • Computer and technical skills; MS Office suite knowledge required
  • Strong problem solving skills, analytical capabilities, and collaboration skills
  • Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Must have extraordinary attention to detail, a commitment to quality and be results driven and customer focused in a very fast-paced and demanding environment

    Benefits
    We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and medical benefits.

    Tagged as: Manager. If, network, Planning, team, television

    This article is about a topic very interesting, but sometimes a little bit dark. This is just a first step in the long way of the knowledge. Please, visit the links and read for yourself all the information there.

    And how Inmanuel Kant used to say: Sapere aude (Dare to learn).

    The copyright is a form of protection for original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture, fixed in a tangible medium of expression.

    Copyright protects original works of authorship, while a patent protects inventions or discoveries. Ideas and discoveries are not protected by the copyright law, although the way in which they are expressed may be. A trademark protects words, phrases, symbols, or designs identifying the source of the goods or services of one party and distinguishing them from those of others. ( http://www.copyright.gov/ )

    Although there are efforts in order to protect the copyright throughout the world, there is no such thing as a “international copyright”.  It means that we must protect our copyright following the law of our country and then to protect the copyright according to the law of the country where we are gonna do businesses.

    But… why is it so? Because all the treaties just have the binding of the law once they are suscribed and ratified by the countries (or parties).
    What a pain in the neck¡ ( I never write bad words).

    Some of the international treaties about copyright, patents and trademarks are…

    a.- Berne Convention (September 9, 1886)

    http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html

    It protects “literary and artistic works”: include every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression, such as books, pamphlets and other writings; lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of the same nature; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show; musical compositions with or without words; cinematographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography; works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography; photographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to photography; works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science.

    b.- Paris Convention ( March 20,  1883)

    http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/paris/trtdocs_wo020.html

    The protection of industrial property has as its object patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, indications of source or appellations of origin, and the repression of unfair competition.

    Industrial property shall be understood in the broadest sense and shall apply not only to industry and commerce proper, but likewise to agricultural and extractive industries and to all manufactured or natural products, for example, wines, grain, tobacco leaf, fruit, cattle, minerals, mineral waters, beer, flowers, and flour

    c.- The Universal Copyright Convention or UCC (Geneva, 1952):

    http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1814&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

    The UCC is one of the two principal international conventions protecting copyright; the other is the Berne Convention.

    d.- World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO (Geneva, 1996)

    http://www.wipo.int/

    This Treaty is a special agreement within the meaning of Article 20 of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, as regards Contracting Parties that are countries of the Union established by that Convention
    But all the stuff is about countries… Is it importat to me as a designer or an artist?
    And the answer is: Of couse, honey¡

    The situation: I have a website or a blog and somebody stole my work. It does not matter what: photographies, an article, a drawing or… the whole website¡.
    What can I do about it?
    There are a lot of articles written in the subject and I would like to recommend you two of them:

    A.- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained

    http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

    An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication, by Brad Templeton.

    B.- What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

    http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

    This article covers tips, information and resources to help you deal with copyright infringement, the theft of your blog or website content.
    We have here some recommendations on how to protect our copyright.

    And I want to add some useful information to have in mind if your content is stolen.

    1.- Please, register your work.

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