Ad Sales Manager

• 36 year experience in Digital ad sales in a news organisation.
• Excellent English language skills. Good networking and familiarity with key planners in all the major media agencies.
• A track record of having sold large impact campaigns across various digital formats especially branded content and concept selling/native ad formats (video first social IP s licensing etc.)for bluechip clients.
• Owns revenue targets and pushes for them actively.
• Experience in understanding content across formats and being able to articulate/give creative direction to the team for a cohesive output i.e. interpret brief from clients to understand brand positioning key marketing challenge brand objective and knowing basic execution knowhow.
• Strong hold on both brands and media agencies.
• Should be able to open doors and initiate conversations with all key stakeholders in their respective companies.
• Should have knowledge on current brand campaigns brand spends on digital and social media.

• Pitching Digital Brand solutions & IPs to drive ad revenues.
• Understanding Client requirements & providing an array of solutions to build long term partnerships. Executing campaigns campaign Management from planning executing optimising monitoring reports.
• Working crossfunctionally with sales team clients and Branded content teams.
• Working with clients to improve the performance of the campaigns.
• Negotiating & finalising big ticket properties for large clients & agencies.
• Analysing competition & proactively working on ideas along with internal teams.

new media sales,b2b sales,advertising sales