About the Role
As Sales Director, you will grow business across specific HoldCos/verticals by leveraging existing contacts and company relationships. You will drive strategy and execution in an entrepreneurial environment, operating with agility and speed. This hands-on role requires a deep understanding of illuma's products and services, adding value from strategy to implementation, and ensuring flawless execution of current campaigns and business.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow revenue within a media agency/brand patch/vertical across the US.
- Achieve quarterly and annual revenue targets.
- Present and pitch to agencies and clients in individual and group meetings.
- Build strong client relationships to position illuma as an invaluable part of their Programmatic strategy.
- Understand client expectations intimately and anticipate their responses.
- Address obstacles and requests, prioritizing appropriately.
- Provide feedback to shape company sales strategy.
- Organize and manage a high level of work.
- Write and respond to RFPs and proposals in a timely fashion.
- Lead client presentations.
- Represent illuma at industry-leading events.
- Provide regular updates to the Senior Sales Director on revenue forecasting, account progress, and challenges.
- Build a well-organized and updated pipeline.
- Collaborate with global commercial colleagues on account progress and strategy.
- Participate in product roadmap discussions based on client demand.
- Travel when needed.
- Be a positive contributor to illuma company culture.
Requirements
- 6+ years' experience selling programmatic solutions in adtech/media.
- Experience working in Adtech, Media is required.
- Ability to create a plan and execute it end to end.
- A proven track record of achieving revenue goals.
- A relevant network of agency and enterprise contacts.
- Proficient in the language of programmatic advertising and the systems and technology in this sector.
- Knowledge of, or experience in, working in a media agency or HoldCo.
- Consultative approach and demonstrable passion for helping brands successfully navigate their business problems.
- Ability to interpret data to provide strategic insight and recommendations.
- Energetic and confident presenter to small and large client groups alike.
- Competitive drive to win new commercial accounts, with the diligence to nurture the relationship as it grows.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience of liaising at all levels.
- Creative and able to drive innovation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Highly competent multi-tasker who has the ability to move quickly and definitively when making decisions.
- An expert in the interpretation of marketing and digital data to improve performance and provide strategic insight and recommendations.
- Excellent working knowledge of Salesforce plus MS Office including PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Adeptness at working with new computer software.
Skills
- Programmatic advertising
- Salesforce
- MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook)
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Travel nationally and globally
Experience Level
- 6+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $175,000
Benefits
- 25 vacation days plus US federal holidays
- Medical insurance
- 401k
About the Company
- Our Values: United, Driven, Focused, Innovative, Humility
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace diversity fully and promote an inclusive environment to enable everyone to do their best work.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual attention, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
