Account Executive (Sports) Career Path in 2024

Account Executive (Sports) Career Overview

Job Description:
  • Sell or solicit advertising space, time, or media in publications, signage, TV, radio, or Internet establishments or public spaces.

Account Executive (Sports) U.S. Salary in 2024

Annual Median Salary: $58,450
Hourly Median Wage: $28.1

Data sourced from O*NET Online, provided by the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics wage estimates.

Projected Job Openings for Account Executive (Sports)s by 2031

Projected Growth Rate in Job Openings by 2031: -8%

Data sourced from CareerOneStop, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Typical Tasks for Account Executive (Sports)s

  • Maintain assigned account bases while developing new accounts.

  • Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and existing customers to sell new advertising programs and to protect and increase existing advertising.

  • Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services.

Technologies and Skills Used by Account Executive (Sports)s

Desktop publishing software

  • Adobe InDesign
  • Microsoft Publisher

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Basic Skills

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Talking to others

Problem Solving

  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • Looking for ways to help people
  • Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior

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