About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Sales professional to elevate our advertising business with drive, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit. You will actively shape the market, manage media budgets, and place brands where they gain genuine trust. Join us to actively shape the future of our advertising business on a platform that serves as a 'home for brands with attitude'.
Responsibilities
- Build your own customer base from scratch using cold outreach and independent lead research, heavily supported by internal AI tools.
- Identify and acquire target brands that perfectly fit our platform.
- Close deals with major brands and media agencies for hyper-local and national campaigns.
- Manage the entire sales process from initial contact to final contract signing.
- Proactively identify opportunities to scale budgets, place add-ons, and implement cross-media concepts.
- Develop creative, out-of-the-box approaches for clients to maximize their visibility and effectiveness on the platform.
- Share sales experience within the team, motivate colleagues, and contribute to collective growth.
Requirements
- 4-5+ years of solid experience in media or ad sales, ideally with a focus on branding or platform campaigns.
- A proven track record of convincing major brands and establishing significant revenue drivers.
- A hunter mentality with a passion for sales and a drive for cold outreach.
- An unwavering will to succeed and passionate pursuit of goals.
- A robust network in the agency and brand world that can be immediately activated.
- A mindset that thinks big and boldly, finding solutions where others see obstacles.
- Self-organized, highly focused, and possessing a true entrepreneurial spirit.
Skills
- Sales
- Media Sales
- Ad Sales
- Branding Campaigns
- Platform Campaigns
- Cold Outreach
- Lead Research
- Deal Closing
- Negotiation
- Client Relationship Management
- Cross-media Concepts
- Strategic Thinking
- Creative Approach
- Team Collaboration
- Mentoring
Location
- Berlin-Kreuzberg
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Hybrid work model
- Meaningful job contributing to a valuable community product
- Supportive and knowledgeable team environment
- Insights into the operations of a social startup and foundation
- 35€ monthly SpenditCard allowance
- 30 days annual leave
- Workation models
- Sabbaticals
- Strengths-based development culture (Gallup StrengthsFinder)
- Office in Berlin-Kreuzberg
- Regular events (Yoga, Lunch & Learn)
About the Company
- nebenan.de is Germany's largest neighborhood platform, operated by Good Hood GmbH in Berlin.
- It's a free, local platform enabling neighbors to help each other, arrange activities, and share/gift items.
- As a social enterprise, our goal is to foster exchange among neighbors, contributing to a vibrant, helpful, and safe community.
- The platform is open to individuals, local businesses, non-profits, and municipalities.
- We aim to find solutions to major societal challenges like demographic change, loneliness, and sustainable resource use.
- We connect brands with attitude directly to over 4 million active users.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity is collaboration – at nebenan.de, we explicitly welcome every dimension of diversity that enriches our team.
- We live and support equal opportunity.
