Director, Digital Brand Solutions Sales
- Employer
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £Competitive
- Closing date
- 28 Feb 2021
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- Sector
- Media & Internet, Senior Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Flexibility
- Flexible working available
Job Details
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen within Discovery’s International Digital Sales Team.
We are looking for a talented New Business Sales Director to help deliver our ambitious revenue growth targets across our International Digital Brand Solutions business.
Your primary role will be to develop a roster of new business clients through a digital branded content, sales strategy.
Working to secure outstanding digital client solutions against a globally renowned portfolio of content properties, including Discovery, Eurosport, Discovery Golf, GCN, TLC, Now This and The Food Network et al.
Core Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering against a digital revenue target, through generating new business sales activity.
- Identify, establish and win long term new business via an international digital content solution strategy.
- Own the sales funnel for all new partners: Plan, Prospect, Pitch, Win, Deliver.
- Identify digital monetisation opportunities across Discovery’s International Sport and Lifestyle platforms and properties.
- Working with the Snr Director of Sales, help shape and develop the long-term digital sales strategy within the International Sales Team.
- Productising Discovery’s content solutions and developing buying and performance metrics, in line with the market.
- Management responsibility of a dedicated Sales Manager.
Additional Responsibilities
- Acting as a digital expert & ambassador internally and externally within a leading global content business.
- Working across multiple product verticals internationally to create unified sales solutions to new clients.
- Working directly with multiple stakeholders and teams to deliver outstanding client solutions.
- Client management, central contact for all client servicing and campaign management activities.
- Central sales liaison between the Director of Branded Content and VP of Content.
- Helping elevate the digital solutions sell to the existing sales org and generating value to key clients.
- Representing Discovery International to external stakeholders and advocating our business within the industry.
- Attending key industry events and feeding back market intelligence, trends and impacts.
Requirements
- Significant and demonstrable new business sales experience.
- Strong experience in selling and delivering multi $M digital branded content solutions to Tier 1 global brands and advertisers.
- European or APAC multi-market sales experience.
- Digital expert – strong market knowledge, comfortable with delivering a consultive solutions sell to savvy clients.
- Self-starter and hungry to develop the business, an imperative.
- Ability to work under pressure, autonomously and within a complex, global business.
- Ability to cut though the noise and deliver on revenue objectives.
- Passionate about the digital ecosystem and securing new business.
- Outstanding pitch and presentation skills, comfortable at selling at all levels of stakeholders (internal and external).
- Client relations, experience in building lasting credible relationships with key clients and agencies.
- Tenacity and determination to succeed a must.
- Previous Global Media Owner / Digital Marketing Agency experience – desirable.
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