Agency Sales Manager

£50K base + 30% comms

My client is a respected international news and lifestyle brand producing agenda-setting content across a number of touchpoints that includes social.

We are seeking a well connected agency sales person who is a digital specialist and also has a provable blackbook of media agency planner and buyer contacts at Top 6 Agency Holdcos.

The idea candidate will be a tenacious polished seller who can present to large groups and also have a consultative style about them, able to work with internal teams of editorial and creative solutions to propose larger scale strategic propositions from the portfolio.

Role requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of digital display – programmatic and direct IO as well as cross selling video and other opps on the portfolio

• Knowledge of video advertising, YouTube advertising, pre-roll, programmatic, display

• Strong network of media agency planner buyer / decision maker relationships

• Experience of digital branded content partnerships

• Proactive seller able to build and convert large pipelines

• An interest and passion for news media and current affairs