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Toni Howard

Sunshine Coast,Queensland

Summary

A dynamic, energetic, and results-driven professional with a highly
successful background in sales, new business development and leadership. A strategic thinker, accomplished in aligning vision, goals and objectives across all departmental levels to achieve business results. Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills, the ability to influence decisions, and to develop positive internal and external relationships.

Twice awarded News Corps Global Quarterly Sales specialist award.

Overview

20
20

Years of sales and leadership experience

Work History

Head of Regional Digital

Southern Cross Austereo
09.2023 - Current

Develop and oversee SCA’s strategy to maximise regional digital revenue.
Responsible for digtal revenue growth across regional Australia.

  • Responsible for achieving targets through leadership and development of our regional Sales teams.
    • Conducted ongoing reviews and evaluation, to assess the application, operational implications, and ROI of our digital products.
  • Oversee the management of all Regional Digital collateral, resources, products and training program's.
  • Collaborated across the business to create strategies to drive strong multi-platform client solutions, delivering greater commercial outcome for the business.
  • Utilised technology and insights to support commercialisation of regional digital assets.
  • Ensured all products optimisation and ability deliver outcomes for clients.

Digital Marketing State Manger NSW & QLD

optimisationcommercialisationUtiliseddigitalSCA’sSouthern Cross Austereo
01.2022 - 09.2023

Responsible for the commercialization and revenue growth of SCA regional digital assets across regional NSW and QLD.

  • Leading and coaching sales teams across states remotely.
  • Developing business plans and strategies to drive revenue growth.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders, state-based GMs, sales, content, and
    operations to identify opportunities and deliver results.
  • Driving revenue and achieving state-based budgets. Reporting, tracking
    and forecasting on revenue and pipelines.
  • Leveraging industry insights and tools to identify areas of digital
    media/marketing commercial growth for SCA.
  • Creation of new sales processes, procedures, and tactics to increase
    efficiencies.

Regional Product, Partnership and Trade Manager

News Corp
06.2020 - 02.2022

Responsible for driving revenue into News Corp's Regional Media P&L through commercial initiatives and strategic partnerships. Managing all
commercial communications, driving demand for News Corp Regional
Brands, resulting in revenue outcomes for the business.

  • Drive revenue through product innovation, strategy and implementation.
  • Responsible for the P&L and growth of the regional network
  • Developing sales initiatives and strategies resulting in significant
    revenue outcomes.
  • Collaborate with GM's and editors to deliver tangible results.
    Leading Partnership executives, Insights analysis managers and trade
    executives.
  • Utilize strategic analysis & interpretation of data and insights relevant to
    product development

Group Sales Director

News Corp
11.2016 - 06.2020

General management of a team of editors, account managers, admin, designers etc. Responsible for P&L and commercial revenue growth.

  • Implementation of sales initiatives and growth strategies.
  • Coaching and onboarding.
  • Design multi media marketing strategies to best optimize results
  • Responsible for achieving targets through leadership and development of our Account Sales Manager team.
  • Develop a customer acquisition, retention and growth strategy
  • Utilizing my industry sales knowledge to segment the market and understand where the most valuable and long term opportunities lie
  • Develop proposals that meet the clients' objectives
  • Increase yield and market share, Maximize revenue opportunities
  • Revenue and forecasting management

Education

Mini MBA - Grade A - Brand Management

Mark Ritson
12.2021

Mini MBA - Grade A - Marketing

Mark Ritson
09.2019

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Sales Coaching
  • Team management
  • Product development
  • Social Media marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Business development
  • Solution sales
  • New business development
  • CRM

Timeline

Head of Regional Digital

Southern Cross Austereo
09.2023 - Current

Digital Marketing State Manger NSW & QLD

optimisationcommercialisationUtiliseddigitalSCA’sSouthern Cross Austereo
01.2022 - 09.2023

Regional Product, Partnership and Trade Manager

News Corp
06.2020 - 02.2022

Group Sales Director

News Corp
11.2016 - 06.2020

Mini MBA - Grade A - Brand Management

Mark Ritson

Mini MBA - Grade A - Marketing

Mark Ritson
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