Business Analyst
As a Business Analyst at Soar Communications Group, this role involves collecting data, analysing business processes, identifying business problems, and developing solutions to improve the company's processes. You will work closely with the Senior Leadership and various departments to gather relevant information for analysis. By understanding and evaluating the current business processes, you will pinpoint issues that need to be addressed. Your solutions will aim to enhance business operations and ensure that IT solutions align with organisational goals. Additionally, you will serve as a bridge between business needs and IT solutions, facilitating effective communication and collaboration to achieve the company's objectives.
Key responsibilities
- Assist Senior Business Analyst in gathering information and documenting processes.
- Help identify define and prioritise business requirements for both internal and external projects
- Present information from large data sets visually to ensure stakeholders understand the rationale for business cases
- Create detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for business processes.
- Present key information and pricing to support business decision making
- Contribute to systems integration and work with business partners to optimise and enhance our integration
- Define reporting and alerting requirements
- Communicate outcomes to internal team for implementation
- Develop and provide end user training plans and support.
- Perform quality assurance processes
About you
- Proficiency in generating and documenting project requirements
- Experience in producing use case and user stories
- Basic project management
- Ability to analyse data to draw business-relevant conclusions
- Excel Advanced/Power BI for data visualisation
- Experience with Microsoft Teams & CRM experience, PrintIQ, Coreprint and Netsuite is advantageous
- A degree in IT / Computer Science or Information Systems or similar work experience
- Experience in training documentation and implementation planning
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing
Get in Touch
careers@scg.net.nz
Account Manager
SCG is focussed on delivering great work, while using curiosity and innovation to develop thoughtful, creative solutions. Across the group, SCG offers a wide range of services the areas of creative, content and print.
As SCG’s Sales Account Manager, your role is to sell print, design and creative solutions to existing and new clients, and meet or exceed your monthly sales targets. We want you to look at the marketing spend of each client with a view to gaining the lions share, through building trusted working relationships with our clients.
Your skills are critical to the success of the business, but this is a no prima-donna operation. Everyone is here to produce great work and have fun on the way. This requires accurate quoting, detailed job bags, reasonable timeframes and correct delivery specifications – our production team are experts and here to make your jobs shine and will work for a tight deadline to ensure the job is done.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate as the lead point of contact for all matters relating to your customers
- Scope and understand your customers marketing and collateral needs and sell SCG print, creative and design solutions to meet those needs.
- Take a brief and calculate the quotation using PRINT IQ quoting software.
- Develop a trusted advisor relationship with your key accounts.
- Develop new business with existing clients and/or identify areas of improvement to exceed sales quotas
- Monitor the changing requirements of the customer
- Keep the end in mind when quoting and designing work for clients.
- Find cost-effective solutions to stay ahead of our competitors.
- Conduct ongoing research on competitors’ products, prices and customer bases.
- Negotiate on price (within agreed parameters) delivery window and production lead times with customers and production team to obtain the sale
- Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g., quarterly sales results and annual forecasts)
- Identify and grow opportunities within client base and collaborate with sales teams to ensure growth attainment.
About You
- Proven track record as a successful Account Manager
- Experience in Signage / Large Format print sales an advantage
- Print quoting experience – Print IQ software or similar
- Demonstrated ability to manage large accounts
- Tech savvy
Get in Touch
careers@scg.net.nz
Media Sales
We are looking for a dynamic Media Sales Executive for our business titles – NZ Marketing magazine, StopPress and Idealog – to drive revenue growth by managing relationships with advertisers from specific industry niches. Working closely with the Editorial Director and CEO, you will manage the sales pipeline using the latest CRM technologies and tools across our business portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Achieve and surpass revenue goals
- Develop prospecting campaigns and engage clients creatively
- Build and nurture client and agency relationships
- Maintain a well-organised CRM pipeline and forecast accurately
About you
- Proven sales experience, preferably in media advertising sales
- Knowledge of the publishing industry
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Extensive experience with a CRM
- Proficiency in reporting using Excel and PowerPoint
Content Producer - Business Titles
We are looking for a Content Producer who will craft engaging written content across all channels for NZ Marketing, StopPress and Idealog - our business titles. This includes coming up with story ideas, interviewing sources and writing articles as well as commissioning content and images from external sources. You are also a key point of contact for clients, contributors and the internal SCG team.
Key responsibilities:
- Create new ideas for stories across all channels.
- Create, post, and where needed commission content across print, digital, social media, photography, and video channels.
- Manage internal workflow, client deliveries and communication.
- Manage the delivery of content – from creation, approval and design to publishing across all channels – as well as repurposing content to best suit the channel it’s published on.
- Your role is to ensure content is created and delivered for approval in a timely manner and to the standards necessary for instant approval and publishing.
- Overall editorial management of video content for the business titles.
- Grow and maintain the digital and social media audience through content marketing.
- Outside of these set responsibilities, a willingness to work with the team to create the best and most useful content for SCG Media.
About you
- Experienced editorial writer with proven track record in creating engaging content
- Confident and prolific in generating content ideas
- Good digital knowledge and the ability to craft appealing eDMs and web features which increase dwell times and growth of the eDM database
- Digital, CMS and social media management experience
- Ability to assess the quality of page design of the various print products and ascertain that it suits the client’s needs
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Superb attention to detail in both content and project management