Steven Holloway

Experience

1. Advertising Sales Operations Manager

   Paramount

   Oct 2021 — Present

   Manages team of 12 sales associates, overseeing the booking, activation, maintenance, and billing of digital Upfront/Scatter deals across three Advertising Holding Companies (Horizon Media Inc, Omnicom Media Group, Independents).• Recruits, interviews, and onboards candidates once they join Paramount’s cohort of sales associates on a semiannual basis.• Collaborates cross functionally with multiple teams to place associates on sales teams, all while assisting with trainings and providing quality assurance as associate’s responsibilities continue to increase.• Hosts meetings regularly with Sales Associate team, both as a group and individually, to discuss performance, system, and industry updates, forecasting for current and future quarters, as well as their personal career development and progression.• Troubleshoots national and local market direct digital campaigns for both video and display inventory, while also guiding programmatic and political deals.• Oversees salesforce dashboards that record Sales Associate workload in addition to trackers indicating inactive products in FreeWheel and Google Ad Manager Adservers, which prompts an actionable task for Associates to complete their due diligence.• Integrated deliverable trackers for collaborating teams to effectively record life cycle of digital tentpole events and sponsorships for clients partnering to showcase their brands on premiering Paramount shows. o Tentpole events include inventory running in VMAs, Grammy’s, CMT Awards, Kids’ Choice Awards. o Sponsorships include those featuring The Challenge, Yellowstone, Halo, NCIS, Survivor, The Daily Show, etc.• Chosen to train and supervise a select group of sales associates that handle high priority digital sports orders pertaining to the Super Bowl, March Madness, The Masters, PGA Championship, College Football, and NFL.

Education

• University of Delaware

  Sport Management and Marketing

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Office
• Public Speaking
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Research
• Social Media
• Teamwork
• Event Planning
• Management
• Sports
• Time Management
• Microsoft Powerpoint