Advertising Sales Manager, French speaker ( London based) 

What is the key purpose of an Advertising Sales Manager?

Taboola is looking for an outstanding, execution focused and results-driven Sales Manager to work within the Global Growth Advertiser Sales team supporting the France region. This role sits within the newly created Growth Sales department and is based in London. Growth Sales will be a significant driver of growth for Taboola in the coming quarters and years. It is this department’s core responsibility to reply to qualified inbound leads, conduct outreach to new leads and prospects, demo, negotiate and close (quality) deals for sponsored content to be placed on the Taboola platform. This is a new business Sales role within a new business sales team. 

A Sales Manager at Taboola is expected to research, identify, engage and close advertisers in order to expand and diversify offered content. The candidate should be a strong, sales-oriented professional who can source, prospect and structure content marketing deals independently.

Responsibilities and skills: 

• Understanding of digital technology & revenue ecosystem and explain product benefits within this context
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to prioritise effectively and efficiently without losing sight of the objectives
• Accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked
• Independently build a large pipeline of leads, pursue them and close deals.
• Work closely with your colleagues in the Sales Development team, other Growth Sales Advertising Managers to respond to inbound leads, conduct outbound research and prospecting as well as the Growth team lead and regional director Growth Advertiser Sales, EMEA  to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals.
• Build realistic media plans to assist the advertiser in understanding how they can meet their objectives, goals and CPAs
• Interact with the Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaign management
• Convey field intelligence to product management teams in regard to development features
• Manage presentations, build relationships and negotiate contracts 
• Strong use of Salesforce is required including ensuring your outbound activity is recorded accurately 
• Work closely with your direct line manager, to take direction, provide updates, feedback, real times forecasts and to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals

 Requirements: 

• A strong passion and hunger to sell 
• Excellent written and conversational skills and able to communicate in French and English
• Preferred experience working in a sales position with strong sales skills
• Knowledge or keen interest in performance marketing including industry trends, success measurement, online marketing KPIs and product knowledge
• Experience in structuring and negotiating deals
• A true passion for online advertising and tech , and a strong sales drive with an ability to build relationships
• Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports
• Excellent technological skills and ability to quickly learn what is needed to support the campaigns successful implementation and optimisation
• The will and ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and learn, learn, learn!

Why choose Taboola? 

Taboola is widely recognised as the world’s leading content discovery platform that now serves editorial and video recommendations to over 1 billion unique visitors every month on premium websites such as Bloomberg, BBC, Business Insider, The Daily Mail & NDTV.  World class brands such as Expedia, Microsoft, Samsung and Whirlpool leverage Taboola’s platform to uplift brand awareness as well as deliver online engagement and conversions.

Working at Taboola gives you the chance to be part of building something unique. We are a company that embraces change, has enormous potential for growth and offers a challenging yet collaborative working environment where you will always feel valued and be given every opportunity to make a name for yourself. With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 25 days holiday, excellent health insurance, flexible working as well as working from home, RSUs and Perkbox to name just a few.

“You can copy anything, but you can never copy a company’s culture”. The culture at Taboola is exceptional and we not only bring publishers and advertisers together, but also like to come together ourselves. This starts from the moment you join, with an exceptional onboarding programme that will give you the tools and everything you need to learn about Taboola and your role. As well as state of the art tools: MacBooks, automatisation tools, office space, etc.

We pride in delivering a more personalised and tailored experience by partnering directly with the advertisers and publishers.

So, if you’re ready for a new challenge in a company with like-minded creative individuals, a fast pace and endless opportunities with exciting brands, why not come and see what we’re all about, you won’t be disappointed.

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