Branded Content Partnerships Lead (Sales)
Our client is a respected award-winning and agenda-setting lifestyle content and current affairs content publisher with UK and International reach.
Due to expansion, they are looking to hire an experienced branded content partnership professional who has great digital and social knowledge with great contacts with media agencies and clients direct. Our client has a highly engaged audience and is already creating stunning content and partnering with well-known brands across digital, social, video, and broadcast. Existing experience in selling and creating brand partnerships is essential.
A core requirement of the role is that the successful candidate will have the following attributes:
- Proven track record of delivering and securing revenue for big-ticket branded content partnerships
- Social first in approach
- A pro-active mentality towards sourcing sales leads and engineering sales conversations with clients through compelling sales arguments and coming up with bright ideas they’ll want to buy
- A network of media agency contacts across multiple verticals is desirable (Food, FMCGs, Alcohol , Travel, Tech, Autos, and Telcos are essential) across the the Big 6 Hold Cos
- The ability to ideate, strategies, and write pitch decks as part of the sales process
- The ability to sell audiences
- Influence clients through best-in-class ideas
- Proven history of revenue generation and beating set budgets
- An eye for Creative Solutions storytelling.
My client creates content that is highly engaging and the successful candidate will be able to sell a large number of creative solutions to their client base. Incoming candidates will be joining a successful high-performing sales team.