What you’ll be doing…

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Future’s commercial team as an Account Director in the Partnerships division. You will be a valuable representative Future to large accounts with the ability to easily manage client direct and agency relationships to secure new high-potential accounts, and significantly grow existing large accounts. 

You will focus on bigger deals and ideally open up existing clients to new Future ad products and brands. Build and maintain a wide number of senior sales relationships with large and strategically important clients and their advertising agencies.

Develop a good knowledge of multiple Future brands and ad products and work to maximise client spending across the brands, including the use of audience and data ad products to secure large-scale deals. 

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• Ability to sell all products & media types (Creative Solutions, Digital, Print, Events, etc) to advertising agencies and clients
• Prospecting and lead generation for continual pipeline
• Excellent Account Management experience to grow revenue from an existing client base 
• Creating sales material and presentations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Works well as part of a team and independently
• Excellent influencing, objection handling, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Good personal time management
• Relevant market experience 

What’s in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff.  We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level C6

The expected range for this role is £32,000 - £65,250

This is a Hybrid role from our London Paddington Office, working three days from the office, two from home 

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it. 

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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