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About the Role
The UK Commercial Advertising Sales Team is seeking an ambitious Advertising Sales Manager to drive advertising revenue across The Week, a trusted current affairs brand known for its intelligent content and influential readership. This role focuses on growing revenue across print, digital, branded content, partnerships, and commercial solutions.
Responsibilities
- Deliver The Week commercial strategy to drive advertising revenue growth across print, digital, and wider commercial solutions.
- Manage a team of sales people, setting clear performance expectations and ensuring accountability for achieving commercial targets, revenue goals, and brand growth objectives.
- Manage and lead the team day-to-day, setting clear expectations, supporting performance, and helping individuals develop and grow.
- Track and manage performance to consistently meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets across The Week.
- Provide strategic day-to-day oversight across The Week revenue, supporting senior meetings, RFPs, brainstorms, media plans, campaign execution, and troubleshooting.
- Deliver exceptional client service, ensuring any issues are resolved quickly and with a high level of care.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment, proactively solving problems, adapting to new situations, and managing multiple stakeholders to deliver against revenue targets.
- Focus on mid-term revenue generation by securing repeat business, annual deals, strategic partnerships, and key campaigns, while closely monitoring and managing the pipeline.
- Prioritize the retention and growth of strategic client relationships, while also building new partnerships to deliver net-new clients and incremental revenue each year.
- Engage proactively with senior-level clients, agencies, and partnership teams to develop deep relationships that support both ongoing revenue and new business development.
- Identify and develop new opportunities for advertisers across The Week’s print, digital, email, social, and branded content offering.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Planning, Insight, Client Success, Ad Ops, Trade Marketing, Editorial, and wider commercial teams to identify challenges and opportunities, strengthen workflows, and refine the go-to-market approach.
Requirements
- Agency experience, with a strong understanding of the needs and expectations of advertisers reaching affluent, intelligent, and engaged audiences.
- Strong knowledge across a broad range of advertising solutions, including print, digital advertising, branded content, partnerships, sponsorships, events, video, audio, social, influencers, and email.
- Ability to understand the wider media landscape and work collaboratively across teams to identify and maximize revenue opportunities for The Week.
- Proven experience creating and delivering integrated commercial solutions for clients, including high-value partnerships, repeat business, and larger revenue opportunities.
- Strong leadership skills, with the confidence and credibility to work effectively with internal stakeholders, senior clients, and agency partners.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence, build trust, and clearly articulate commercial opportunities.
- Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities at pace.
- Good understanding of print advertising, partnerships, digital media, branded content, premium programmatic advertising, email, social, and media planning at a strategic level.
- Ability to support, mentor, and motivate others, creating a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
Skills
- Print advertising
- Digital advertising
- Branded content
- Partnerships
- Sponsorships
- Events
- Video
- Audio
- Social media
- Influencer marketing
- Email marketing
- Programmatic advertising
- Media planning
- Sales management
- Client relationship management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Time management
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £65,000
Benefits
- Uncapped leave
- Bonus
- Refer a friend reward
- Well-being support
- Share Incentive Plan
About the Company
- Future is the global leader in specialist media, with over 3,000 employees working across 200+ media brands.
- Future provides trusted, expert content that educates and inspires action through specialist websites, magazines, events, newsletters, podcasts, and social spaces.
- The company has ambitious plans for growth and is looking for driven individuals to join them.
Equal Opportunity
- Future embraces and celebrates diversity, making it part of who they are.
- Different perspectives spark ideas, fuel creativity, and push innovation.
- Building a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.
- Hiring is fair and inclusive, welcoming talent from every walk of life.
- Ensuring the table has room for everyone.
- A diverse team is good for business and is the Future.