Digital Sales Manager

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Job Description

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. talkSPORT, the world's biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Ryan Tubridy at mid-mornings. Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Kate McCann and Andrew Neil.

Your Role: This is an exciting role within News Broadcasting's commercial team to drive our unique suite of digital products in the market. Reporting into the Head of Digital Sales, this role will focus on driving revenue growth across VOD, display, CTV and digital audio products. The role will work across all News Broadcasting brands including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Times Radio and Talk.

Day to day you will:

• Drive digital revenue across all News Broadcasting products including VOD, display, CTV, instream (digital audio), podcasts and branded content.
• Develop relationships with key digital agency contacts and clients directly.
• Support the wider News Broadcasting sales team with digital proposals, meetings, plans and deliverables.
• Work within an agency hub to determine target clients and categories, whilst ensuring our digital products are included where relevant in wider News UK solutions responses.
• Work with digital, sales, activation and editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation & then delivery of the sold campaigns, to ensure post sale world class service and delivery for our clients.
• Work closely with Acast, Octave and Ozone on wider collaborative sales initiatives.

What we're looking for from you:

• Good knowledge of media, agency and client processes and business objectives.
• An interest in and knowledge of the UK media industry, with a passion for the video and wider digital market.
• Demonstrable experience of working within the digital media space, ideally with VOD or digital audio, with creativity and a personal drive to create award winning work.
• Understanding of how data is utilised within digital advertising.
• Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].