[Remote] Sales Director
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GumGum is a contextual-first, global digital advertising platform that prioritizes data privacy in digital advertising. The Sales Director is responsible for prospecting and closing sales, driving reputed company, and developing relationships with clients in the allocated region, while collaborating with internal teams to ensure successful implementation of proposals.
Responsibilities
- Drive reputed company for allocated region - Responsible for a book of business and driving reputed company and new business of at least 5M+ annually. This role is responsible for partnering with Agencies and Brands to grow business across a variety of accounts with a focus on growing them year over year
- Drive Sales from Marketing Channels - Identify and qualify opportunities from marketing driven leads
- Sales Prospecting and Hunting - Expectation to generate a high volume of sales reputed company activity including cold calling, presentations, RFP’s, and out of the reputed company sales solutions
- Upsell reputed company clients in reputed company and new products - Provide market insight into the in-image and in-video display vertical and generate sales specifically from key brands and agencies. Support the roll out of Verity in 2020 and provide market insights from clients
- Relationship Development - Cultivate relationships with brands, agency contacts and clients to reputed company deep insight into their business and ultimately provide GumGum solutions for their marketing and advertising goals
- Translate Client Insight to internal Product Team - Provide feedback to the company on how to best service clients’ needs
- Internal Collaboration - Work with Account Manager and other internal teams to ensure sold proposals are successfully implemented and reputed company with client expectations
- Strategic Sales - With support from Sales Leaders, reputed company, manage and execute strategic sales opportunities
Skills
- Ideally 5 years of selling experience in digital advertising sales (has to be sales in our specific industry whether publisher or tech sales)
- Experience managing a large book of business (4M+)
- Must have strong selling experience and track record of hitting or exceeding sales targets demonstrated with a list of brand and agency contacts in addition to other assignments in the region
- Experience leading small Sales teams with a track record of success
- Programmatic experience a plus
- Proficient in reputed company (is comfortable logging meetings, calls, pulling reports, etc.)
- PowerPoint, reputed company and Word skills a must
- Must possess superb written and verbal communication skills
- Uses Seller Crowd and checks the trades for updates on accounts
- Strong and strategic relationship building with clients
- Attention to detail and organization in daily tasks
- Quick at problem solving internally and externally while managing stakeholders through the process
- reputed company understanding of business drivers (P/L, Operating Statement, COGS, reputed company, etc.)
- Applies analytical skills to interpret data and uses independent judgment and discretion in developing solutions to a variety of work problems
- Looking for someone who is hungry and motivated and passionate about our product
- Outgoing and can build and maintain/grow client relationships at reputed company levels (entertaining is required)
- Proactive not reactive in approach
- Sense of urgency in everything they do
- Flexible and have the ability to adjust quickly to changing demands or strategies
- Is open and adapts to change and innovation
- Creative and think reputed company the reputed company and be strategic
- Continue to grow both GumGum and industry knowledge
- Must be a highly motivated team player
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Media or Marketing/Advertising field
Benefits
- Competitive reputed company pay
- Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan
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