Sales Director - France

Paris
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Full-time

We’re searching for a highly qualified Sales Director to grow our business in France. We expect the ideal candidate to have strong relationships with media agencies and tier-1 advertisers.

What you'll do

  • Develop and manage a profitable portfolio of national and regional advertisers and their media agency partners
  • Help to develop and deliver a strong go-to-market plan for France and efficiently deploy C Wire’s sales strategy
  • Identify new opportunities for the French media market by understanding the needs of advertisers, agencies and premium media owners
  • Attend weekly sales meetings/presentations with agencies and clients to discuss strategy and C Wire positioning
  • Advise clients and create brand loyalty
  • Negotiate Sales contracts
  • Manage and maintain a sales pipeline
  • Achieve sales targets

What you'll bring

  • You will have an excellent track record of prospecting and selling advertising solutions in the digital media landscape
  • You will be extremely well-connected at all levels with major advertising agencies
  • You will have an intimate knowledge of everything digital and a firm understanding of online video, content marketing and/or display advertising landscape in France
  • Programmatic experience is essential
  • Have a proven track record of successful prospecting, building strong pipelines and winning business
  • Confident self-starter. Able to learn quickly, use their own initiative and motivated to get the job done effectively
  • A positive, solution driven mentality at all times with a proactive and can-do attitude to solving challenges
  • Team player
  • Good technical knowledge and understanding of ad-serving and tracking technologies
  • Solid grasp of arithmetic, percentages and decimals, and performance analysis
  • Excellent customer service skills and ability to resolve queries efficiently, effectively and courteously
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Social and outgoing and able to build relationships with ease
  • Proficient with all facets of Google for Work, in particular Spreadsheets and Slides
  • Strong organizational skills

Your background

  • Strong sales experience in online advertising or media sales for more than 5 years
  • A demonstrable  track record of outstanding sales achievement through new business, account development and account management.
  • Shows evidence of driving revenue through strategic selling and negotiation techniques, face to face presentations, and high quality proposals.
  • Experience forging strong relationships with clients 
  • Programmatic understanding
  • University or FH degree, alternatively apprenticeship and work experience
  • Proficient in French and English

What you get in return

  • a fantastic work environment, driven by openness, fairness, and relentless dedication to fast-paced, continuous development
  • a truly interesting industry, undergoing disruption
  • an exec team with little ego and big ambition, looking forward to having you on board
  • Equity bonus program
  • Flexible home office rules (hybrid model)
Sound like you?

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