Sales Manager - Melbourne

Captify
Melbourne, Australia
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in programmatic sales within the digital advertising domain and can manage cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with programmatic sales experience and a track record of exceeding revenue targets
    — “Highly motivated individual with track record of outperforming revenue targets”
  • Professionals who have worked with trading desks and can lead account development plans
    — “Experience working with cross-functional teams and building relationships across internal teams”
  • Individuals with strong agency connections and a background in enterprise digital advertising solutions
    — “Connections with AU agency partners highly desirable”

Things to consider

  • The role requires managing multiple workstreams and working under pressure
    — “Ability to work well under pressure whilst steering multiple workstreams”
  • Candidates should be prepared to provide market intelligence and partner feedback regularly
    — “Provide regular feedback into the business on what our key brands are looking for from partners and market intel”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to source and close programmatic revenue opportunities in your resume and interviews
    — “Sourcing, pitching and closing programmatic revenue opportunities”
  • Demonstrate experience in managing relationships with agency teams and leading account development
    — “Own agency patch and manage all levels of seniority across the patch supported by the sales leads”
  • Showcase your forecasting and budgeting skills with concrete examples from past roles
    — “Confident in forecasting & budgeting”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Sourcing, pitching and closing programmatic revenue opportunities
  • Grow Revenue from existing and new accounts
Typical background
3+ years Sales experience within Ad Tech / Programmatic landscape

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesProgrammatic AdvertisingDigital Media

Preferred

Cross-functional Team CollaborationAgency Partnerships

Stack & domain

Programmatic AdvertisingMedia SalesDigital AdvertisingEnterprise SolutionsAdvertising TechnologiesCommunicationTeam CollaborationProblem-solvingForecastingBudgetingAdvertising

About the role

Original posting from Captify via Greenhouse

Who we are

Captify is now part of the Verve Group, sitting within Verve for Advertisers, a global, end-to-end advertising technology business that helps brands and agencies reach their target audiences across the open web. Operating as a full-stack ad exchange, Verve for Advertisers connects buyers with premium publishers across mobile apps, CTV, and digital screens.

Captify’s unique search intelligence platform provides brands with a deep understanding of consumer interests, motivations, and intentions in real time, allowing for precise targeting and better campaign measurement. The underlying machine learning technology transforms real search intent into actionable marketing strategies that are used by over 800 leading global brands for programmatic activation, pre-campaign strategies, and unique measurement solutions. Captify is regularly recognised for innovation and excellence in advertising technology.  Captify UK recently won Campaign’s Ad Tech provider of the year award.

What we’re looking for

Captify is on the hunt for a Sales Manager to fuel our Melbourne business. The Sales Manager will be based in Melbourne and working in a sales team with some of the most talented, hardworking & best characters in the media industry.

As an integral member of the Australian market team, you will play a major role in driving new business and account development revenue into the business and shaping the perception of the Captify business.

What you’ll do

You’ll be a digital media professional with 3+ years of experience in the programmatic market either at a media agency or within media sales. 

Proficient in confidently pitching, and identifying new growth opportunities, and a background in collaborating across teams, in particular trading desks.

You’ll be an out-going and fun team member, with exceptional organisational and communication skills, coupled with a self-starter mindset and intuitive motivation.

This includes: 

Sourcing, pitching and closing programmatic revenue opportunities

Grow Revenue from existing and new accounts

Own commercial reporting & navigate strategic requirements particular to your client group

Own agency patch and manage all levels of seniority across the patch supported by the sales leads

Lead advertiser and agency development plans for accounts in your patch

Forecast revenue accurately for month and quarter ahead

Update Salesforce regularly to give the business an accurate view of expected revenue from your account list

Respond to agency briefs; with strategic and innovative solutions

Provide regular feedback into the business on what our key brands are looking for from partners and market intel

Remain up to date on industry trends and opportunities to ensure Captify sales team are better suited than key competitors

Work closely with Account Managers, Studio, Insights and Traders to grow accounts through best in class customer service

What we’re looking for 

3+ years Sales experience within Ad Tech / Programmatic landscapeConnections with AU agency partners highly desirable

Experience working with cross-functional teams and building relationships across internal teams

Highly motivated individual with track record of outperforming revenue targets

Highly experienced in digital advertising, enterprise solutions, online media buying and selling processes, and advertising technologies.

Exceptional organisational and communication skills

Confident in forecasting & budgeting

Ability to work well under pressure whilst steering multiple workstreams

A team player with an entrepreneurial attitude and strong will to succeed

What success looks like 

Driving meetings and opportunities 

Driving Revenue growth from existing accounts

Winning new logos and cross-selling opportunities

Benefits & Perks

25 days holiday + bank holidays 

Access to SPILL - instant therapy support

Access to Mental Health First Aiders

Sport and wellbeing activities

Financial wellbeing support

Work from home and flexible/core working hours

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Source: Captify careers (Greenhouse)

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