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Rigney Dolphin to create 30 IT jobs…
Thirty jobs are to be created at an IT company in Waterford.
Rigney Dolphin has begun recruiting for the new positions after sealing a deal to provide support services to the Cleveland Clinic in the US.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the expansion highlighted the importance of the Ireland-US relationship and the business opportunities it offers Irish companies.
“As an open economy I welcome the fact that Irish businesses are successful in the global market and from building on today’s successful collaboration I hope that Rigney Dolphin will further embrace new opportunities abroad,” he said.
Rigney Dolphin already employs more than 1,100 people at offices in Waterford, Dublin and Dundalk.
The agreement to provide patient management, patient outreach and telephone services to Cleveland Clinic was announced during Mr Kenny’s visit to Boston today.
The 30 new roles will be in clinical and support services, and the company expects to create more jobs in the future.
Dr Frank Dolphin, executive chairman of Rigney Dolphin, said working with Cleveland Clinic helped the company tap into the global healthcare market.
“It has enabled Rigney Dolphin to launch its services into an international market and has proven Irish firms can attain global standards in quality, delivery and growth,” he added.
Advertising Sales Executive
Our Client is a leading Glossy women’s magazine. They are looking a talented sales person who’s previous experience boasts sales achievement and results .If you would like to be part of a high qaulity, respected publication who reward success then this is the job for you.
Purpose of role
To grow advertising & sponsorship revenues & develop new revenue streams on digital platforms.
Main responsibilities
- Achieve & exceed agreed revenue targets
- Achieve & exceed yield within agreed parameters
- Develop & convert new business opportunities
- Identify & quantify new prospects through prospects list
- Manage agency and client business relationships
Key Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years sales & business development experience.
- Highly motivated self-starter
- Strong negotiation skills
- Track record of working with clients/external agencies & achieving targets
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flair & creativity
- Determination to succeed in a dynamic sales environment
Qualifications:
- 3rd Level Business/Media Qualification (desirable)
Are you interested in a dynamic and rewarding role as an Advertising Sales Executive? If so, please submit a current CV without delay to Samantha@rightfit.ie or call Samantha on 01 2342527 to discuss further.
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Magazine Sales Manager – Excellent Title
Extremely popular Irish women’s glossy mag based in Dublin is looking to recruit a Sales Manager. If chosen you will work for a title renowned for it’s expertise, on-trend knowledge and quality opinion.
The successful candidate will report to the Managing Director and will be responsible for:
- All day to day selling of advertising on the magazine:
- Managing key accounts, both agency and direct;
- Interacting with existing and potential advertisers at a senior level;
- Growing market share, and
- Working with the editor in developing the commercial potential of the magazine
The position requires somebody with:
- Proven sales ability
- Minimum of five years sales experience in a media or catering environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong networking and contact building capabilities
- Own car and clean driving licence – absolute must
- Abiltiy to work within a team environment
- Ability to work off own initiative
- Professional approach
- Ambition and drive.
Salary range – €45k plus
Are you interested in a dynamic and vibrant role as a Sales Manager for a top magazine? This is a fantastic opportunity for a proven sales person to continue and build on the solid relationships this magazine holds. Please apply to Samantha@rightfit.ie with your CV and brief cover note.
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Newpaper Readership in Ireland has declined by 2.4% year-on-year…
NEWSPAPER READERSHIP in Ireland has declined by 2.4 per cent year-on-year, according to the Joint National Readership Survey published yesterday.
The JNRS report for 2011 shows that 2.89 million adults, or 81 per cent of the adult population, read the print editions of newspapers in the period. This compared with readership of 2.96 million a year earlier, representing 84 per cent of the adult population.
The Irish Times had an average daily readership of 310,000 people in the period, down from 339,000 in 2010.
The Irish Independent had an average daily readership of 477,000, down from 539,000 a year earlier, while the Examiner’s readership grew by 6,000 to 181,000. The Irish Daily Mail’s readership was 145,000, down 3,000.
The Daily Mirror fared best among the daily titles, growing its readership from 192,000 in 2010 to 214,000 in 2011. The Irish Daily Star had readership of 373,000, down 12,000, while the Irish Sun’s readership fell 2,000 to 275,000.
Among Sunday titles, the average readership per issue of the Sunday Independent was 939,000 in 2011, down from one million a year earlier. The Sunday World had 819,000 readers, down 2,000. The Sunday Times had an average readership of 386,000, down from 418,000 in 2010, although it recorded increases in the readership of its Magazine, Culture and Style supplements.
The Sunday Business Post’s readership was 154,000, down from 187,000.
The Irish Sunday Mirror grew its readership from 141,00 in 2010 to 183,000 in 2011. The Irish Mail on Sunday also saw its readership increase, recording an average of 338,000 readers per issue, up 9,000. It is likely that both titles picked up readers in the wake of the closure of the Irish News of the World last July.
The Irish Times had 163,000 Dublin readers, the highest number of any Irish morning title. Some 82 per cent of Irish Times readers are classed in the ABC1 social group, the largest percentage of any national title.
Among The Irish Times supplements, the Saturday Magazine attracts 365,000 readers on average per issue, while the Ticket has an average readership of 214,000. Readership of Health Plus stands at 299,000 readers per issue, up from 285,000.
Millward Brown Lansdowne, which compiled the report, suggested there was some evidence of a tendency among readers of daily titles to shift from regular to occasional readership.
Frank Cullen, co-ordinating director of the National Newspapers of Ireland, said readers had remained “remarkably loyal” to newspapers despite Ireland’s economic difficulties, with high readership rates even among the younger “digital” generation.
“Newspaper publishing is all about original content; we place a very high value on quality, original journalism, and I think the latest JNRS shows that most people in Ireland do as well,” he said.
The popularity of newspaper magazines suggested they were seen increasingly as representing good value for money, he added. “They have become a central part of the newspaper offering.”
Mastercard to create 130 jobs…..
Credit card company MasterCard is to create 130 jobs in Dublin, with the opening of a new global technology headquarters.
The jobs will be created over the next four years, and will bring to 200 the number of people employed by MasterCard in the State.
Recruitment has already begun for the technology focused roles, and the expansion is being supported by IDA Ireland.
President of Mastercard Technologies Rob Reeg said the expansion and the new team would help further the company’s technology agenda.
“At our core, MasterCard is a technology company that happens to be in the payments space,” he said.
“MasterCard chose Ireland as a place to expand our presence because, from our vantage point, we see consumers moving toward a world beyond cash, shopping and paying for the things that matter to them in ways that best fit their needs and lifestyles with a simple tap, click or touch in-store, online or on a mobile device.”
MasterCard opened its Dublin office in 2008, when it acquired technology company Orbiscom.
Technology Predictions for 2012
The birth of Apple TV and
failure of Google+ are
among the technology team’s predictions for 2012
1. Apple TV
launch a television set in 2012. Making predictions about what Apple is planning
is a risky business but here goes: I think we’ll see an Apple TV set with
content delivered as iOS-style
apps.
Lovefilm and Netflix and live
sport from Sky could be brought together to create an a la carte television
offering. Certainly, it’s unlikely to deliver everything and that will put off
lots of viewers. The current offering of films and TV shows for British Apple TV
users, for example, is far less comprehensive than it could be.
available. I feel quite sure that this is what’s coming. The only thing I’m not
sure about is that it’s coming in 2012. Even late 2012 might be too early for
such a bold product. We’ll see.
Fire lands
the US at the end of 2011. Despite some mixed reviews, the budget tablet has
been selling well – at least, according to the limited information that the
online bookseller has made available. We had to wait a long time before the
Kindle ereader was released in the UK and Ireland but it’s a
fairly safe bet that we will see the Kindle Fire here before the end of 2012.
outside the US in the spring but it’s more likely that the Kindle Fire will
launch internationally in the autumn, ready for the Christmas boom.
Fire by then – either a second, larger tablet or an improved version of the
original. Amazon has a good record of improving the Kindle with each generation,
so there’s a good chance that British buyers will be getting a better product
than the one which has launched this year in America.
the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT, Arqiva, and TalkTalk, is finally expected to
make its much overdue debut.
technical glitches.
brought on board to ferry the process along and get the boxes onto shop shelves.
The proposition, self-styled as the next generation of Freeview, is meant to be
a well executed product – but it remains to be seen what consumer appetite there
is for YouView.
a social network
unlikely to beat Facebook as the
world’s leading social network anytime during 2012. Plus after Facebook’s highly
anticipated $100bn float, it will have a major war chest to invest in the site
and spend on improving its reach.
another feature of the Google suite of web
products, rather than a killer social network which can rival Facebook’s
dominance.
likely to be fun additions to the way people communicate and share certain bits
of information on Google-owned sites, such as YouTube. However, it
is highly unlikely that Facebook will have to worry about a major rival in the
form of Google+ next year.
looked increasingly out of its depth through 2011 as the mobile computing
revolution was advanced by Apple, Google and Microsoft.
dated (with updates disastrously delayed), its tablet is a debacle and its
market share is plummeting. The spike in RIM’s low share price when it was
revealed that Amazon had toyed with an acquisition shows that in 2012 the firm
will be a major target.
say it will, is grim.
monopoly. Its dominance of web search is almost complete, but the question under
consideration by the European
Commission is whether Google abuses that dominance to promote its sideline
businesses at the expense of rivals.
Schmidt is already making conciliatory noises in the hope of reaching a
settlement and avoiding the enormously costly and distracting legal quagmire
that so damaged Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Harmony at Harmonia
RTÉ Dragon and publisher Norah Casey said yesterday it was “a Herculean effort” for her publishing group to return to profit last year, writes GORDON DEEGAN .
Harmonia, the company that publishes Irish Tatler and U , recorded profits before tax of €331,571 in 2010, according to results just filed at Companies Office.
That compares with a loss of €193,140 in 2009.
Ms Casey, who is chief executive of the group, said profits last year “will be pretty similar” to 2010.
“We have worked very, very hard,” said Ms Casey of the figures which show a 12 per cent rise in sales to €6.5 million.
But she added that “in order to continue to grow, we need to make bigger profits. They are not good enough.”
She said Harmonia’s annus horribilis in 2009 required a major turnaround in performance, which had been done by “sweating the asset”.
Pay Per Click Specialist – Spanish
Our client is an award winning internet online travel company looking for a PPC Specialist with fluency in Spanish. The paid search candidate will share their passion for the online travel industry, and have a wealth of PPC experience to grow the brand and market share in existing and new markets.
He/she will have proven experience in the following:
- Managing large PPC accounts promoting travel or sales focussed B2C websites
- Managing and interpreting large quantities of data to provide action oriented recommendations
- Communicating performance results within team
- Managing testing, analysing results, making recommendations and implementing changes
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Regular performance reporting
- Ad text creation & testing
- Account and campaign structuring
- Automated and manual bid management
- Performance analysis
- Conversion tracking & optimisation
- Implementation and assessment of beta tests
- Liaising with search engine account managers for growth and performance improvement opportunities
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and competitor activity
Critical Competencies:
- Minimum 2 years experience in PPC
- Personal Effectiveness: Produces outstanding results by being proactive and committed
- Goal setting / short term planning: Achieves results by setting goals using quality planning, analysis and decision making
- Analytical Skills: Analyses data and strategies to recommend performance improvements
- Organisation: Excels in time management and project prioritisation
- ROI focus: Strong business acumen
- Demonstrated analytic and problem-solving skills
- Native language Spanish, Italian or French preferred, any additional languages an advantage
Qualifications:
- Marketing, statistics, economics or language degree
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office products, with an ability and willingness to quickly become an expert in industry and in-house too
- Certified in Google AdWords, Microsoft adCentre or Yahoo Search Marketing an advantage.
Are you interested in a dynamic PPC role with a successful and progressive company? If so, please submit a current CV to orla@rightfit.ie or call Orla on 01 2342527 to discuss this opportunity further.
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Digital Account Director
Our client is a leader in the world of digital advertising due to their continued success and growth they have an opening for a Digital account director. The successful candidates must be capable of producing innovative and proven online marketing strategies across all practice areas, translate these strategies into tactics, navigate complex client organizations, achieve results and manage expectations. You must be a self starter who inspires and leads your team.
Responsibilities
- Own deliverables that contribute strategic value beyond day-to-day campaign tactics
- Establish rapport and maintain long-term relationships with client champion and executives
- Ensure tactical alignment with stated goals, objectives and strategy
- Prioritize & set expectations on key deliverables
- Accountable for client results across all practice areas
- Orchestrate cross functional teams to achieve strong client results
- Actively lead and/or participate in activities such as regular update meetings, ongoing communication, etc.
- Mentor team and lead continuous improvement throughout the Account Services group
- Achieve recognizable improvements in the skill level and book of business performance of the Account Services team
- Lead highly skilled client delivery teams to enhance and deepen client relationships
- Share responsibility for 100% client retention by proactively identifying risks or opportunities
- Support business development as a situation expert
Requirements and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 5+ years of advertising experience/at least 3yrs being digital
- Strong knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- Search Marketing (SEO, Paid Search)
- Display Advertising
- Email Marketing
- Social Media
- Web Analytics
- Testing & Optimization
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A history of growing and managing teams
- Prior agency experience preferred
- Extreme attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, please submit a current CV without delay to Orla@rightfit.ie or call Orla on 01 2342527 to discuss further.
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Digital Account Manager
One of Ireland’s leading digital agencies is seeking the cream of digital talent to join their growing team of industry leaders. My client is an award winning media agency on a winning streak with accounts across the Drinks, FMCG, Automative and Financial sectors. You must have minimum 3 years experience working in a digital agency at exec to manager level .The Digital Client Account Manager will be responsible for ensuring that excellence is achieved for the client campaigns for which they are responsible for.
Account and Campaign Responsibilities
The Account Manager acts as the main daily contact to a number of designated accounts.
Responsibilities include:
- Profitability manage the total client campaign lifecycle autonomously. A loss leader role may be considered by management for specific campaigns
- Plan time required to deliver client campaigns and manage and report on resources consumed
- Own, build and manage the relationship with assigned clients.
- Manage campaign renewal process effectively
- Confidently present complex solutions and issues to clients
- Conceive and execute campaigns that deliver the client’s online business objectives
- Negotiate and manage contracts/deals with media owners
- Manage competitive reviews for clients and understand market sector for specific clients
- Ensuring that a positive contribution is made by the individual to the agency’s & group’s P&L
People Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Build and manage effective professional relationships with all colleague
- Instrumental in the training process for more junior staff and staff less expert in specific areas of digital
- Provide quality control for staff less expert in specific areas of digital
If this sounds like it could be the role for you, please submit a current CV without delay to orla@rightfit.ie or call Orla on 01 2342527 to discuss this opportunity further.
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