Strategic Sales Planner, Verve
Real time omnichannel ad platform
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Real time omnichannel ad platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the growth of the open internet by bringing marketers and publishers closer together across the omnichannel customer journey.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable working in a sales environment with individual and team targets
- Self-motivated and have an attention to detail
- Have an organised approach and be able to meet challenging deadlines
- Proactive approach with excellent communication skills via email, over the phone and in person
- Passion for digital and always seeking to extend your knowledge of the market
- Account management experience with a proven ability to grow relationships
- Passionate about advertising industry
- Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Problem solver with a proactive mindset
- Strong understanding of how to use data and insights
- Good presentation and storytelling skills
- Strong commercial mindset with drive to grow revenue
- Sound research skills with ability to curate and distil market intel
- At least a year’s experience in the advertising & media industry
- PowerPoint, Excel & Word
- Comfortable with building graphs & decks for commercial story-telling purposes
- You will be a true self-starter who can work collaboratively with multiple teams and can provide a high attention to detail
- You are a personable, curious individual who is filled with motivation and high energy that will light up the team pushing us to our goals
- This role combines elements of commercial thinking, excellent communication, numerical analysis and multi-tasking
- You will have experience in the media sector
What the job involves
- We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Sales Planner to work alongside the Sales team to create growth opportunities with new and existing clients
- You will be responsible for identifying key marketing opportunities, delivering best in class audience insights and supporting the commercial teams with your client and vertical expertise. In this role you will play a crucial part in helping drive commercial success and growth for the business
- Proactively identify market trends by researching current press and historical data - prepping team for effective client and category approach
- Build relevant insights for pitch to prospective clients and new business opportunities
- Responsible for growth strategy of priority accounts within the commercial team
- Learn and interpret client objectives & media KPI’s to best formulate media strategies
- Responsible for feeding research, industry trends and account knowledge into the business
- AOV growth against key accounts and verticals through strategic insights
- Support the sales team with identifying in-quarter incremental business and upweights
- Clear understanding of Captify product capabilities and solution selling, proactively identify cross-sell opportunities
- Work closely with Sight to produce proactive insights both at a client-specific and verticalised level that will drive growth and incremental revenue
- Meeting with clients & feedback information gained to commercial team
- Conceptualize presentation and collateral design with Marketing team for deliverables
- Fully immerse themselves in the digital advertising industry, learning about one of the fastest growing advertising channels in the UK
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Verve Group provides an omnichannel advertising platform that connects advertisers, agencies, brands, and publishers to people in real time. Verve places a significant emphasis on privacy in its offering, in a space that has received media criticism for intrusive practices.
Over the years, the company has expanded its digital financial services platform and steadily ramped up its acquisitions. It bought mobile DSP company Dataset and is a bidding partner for in-app inventory on Google Ad Manager.
The Verve Group have made a significant footprint in the digital ad marketplace, having partnered with thousands of advertisers. The company continues pushing towards new and expanding markets as it builds a larger and stronger global technology stack.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Carlsbad, CA
Leadership
Sameer Sondhi
(CEO)CEO at Affle. Previously the Senior Director of Business Development at AdMarvel and xAd. Sameer was also Senior VP at In Mobi.
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