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5 Month FTC - Senior Digital Sales Executive - Entertainment

  • Location: Chiswick, W4 5YB
  • Salary: Up to £250 per day
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted over 1 year ago

  • Sector: sales, Event Operations
  • Type: hybrid
  • Contact: Melanie Ashworth
  • Contact Email: melanie.ashworth@handle.co.uk
  • Duration: 5 Months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Expiry Date: 28 July 2023
  • Job Ref: BBBH106256

Are you a film fanatic? Do you love a Sunday stream? Looking for a role which focuses on digital growth across YouTube, digital display and social? If so, keep reading.

Immediately available 6 Month FTC Senior Digital Sales Executive required to work for a global media and entertainment company. You will work with the Sales Manager and three new agency partners, responsible for revenue growth across the UK digital portfolio with a particular focus on their streaming business.

Day Rate: £250 + 20% quarterly bonus

Location - Chiswick 1-2 days in the office

Responsibilities

  • Generate and own mid-level day to day contacts, keeping in regular contact to ensure the are a key partner for advertisers & agencies
  • Increase brand count while developing existing advertisers
  • Generate high quality media plans in response to agency briefs
  • Be a confident presenter, regularly leading pitches to media partners
  • Be hungry for growth through sourcing and nurturing effective leads to grow spend from your assigned clients
  • Be a reliable asset for media partners
  • Ensure forecasting and sales strategy is up to date and in line with business requirements
  • Have a creative mindset to sales, be confident building and maintain pitch decks and post campaign reports
  • Own campaigns from start to finish leveraging strong internal relationships to ensure clients interests are represented internally.
  • Work closely with Senior Management to identify new formats and opportunities
  • Ensure sales and revenue growth across all digital platforms including Streaming, Digital Display, Online video, YouTube and Social

Skills

  • 3-4 years of experience within the Digital or Broadcast industry with an understanding and experience with programmatic video preferred
  • Presentation skills
  • Preferred - Experience selling Premium video
  • Understanding of Agency structures
  • Experience working with Google Suite (Google Slides/Sheets/Word/Drive/GMail)
  • Solid understanding of overall media market and industry trends
  • Knowledge of linear TV and traditional trading methods
  • Loves a bit of content

Please apply now for a further conversation!

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