About the role

  • Sales Planner supporting the Sales team in identifying growth opportunities in digital advertising. Involves market research, client management, and collaboration with various teams.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits

  • Stay healthy with our Bupa HealthCare Plan with easy access to medical care
  • Support your long-term financial security with our Aviva Corporate Pension Scheme, with Verve contributing 5% of your qualifying earnings
  • Pick what matters most to you in our Personalised Benefits Platform, with a budget of £50/month
  • Recharge with 25 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
  • Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars

Job title

Sales Planner

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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