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Sales Manager
Shazam
London, , United Kingdom
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Millions of users. Billions of tags. Countless moments of discovery. Shazam brings a unique brand of magic to millions every day. It’s our people – their imagination, skills and ideas – that shape our future, and help us make the impossible come to life. Bring us your vision, and it’ll be you creating the wow moments that excite people across the world.
Role Scenario
With over 1 billion songs Shazamed every 6 weeks, often as part of a TV commercials, there has never been a better opportunity for the brands associated to extend their presence in a truly natural way. And that’s just one of the ways we can support them.
We are looking for a new Sales Manager to come and join our UK based Ad Sales team. A background in mobile Ad Sales is a must, as is a knowledge of the entertainment landscape and a creative mind when it comes to how we might be working with the brands we aren’t already working with – or how we might support the ones we already work with differently.
Where Does The Role Sit?
Based in Soho and reporting into our SVP International Sales, the role will also collaborate closely with the wider Sales team.
What Will You Do?
• Develop, service and manage new and existing relationships with current and potential partner organizations. Build a pipeline of new business opportunities that will enhance the competitive positioning of Shazam in the UK.
• Work very closely and collaboratively with key partners in the business to ensure all events, branding and marketing opportunities are maximised to their full potential.
• Develop, evaluate, and prioritize new ways to grow the business through intelligent partnerships that maximise impact for both Shazam and the partner organisation,
• Maintain an intimate knowledge of trends in the digital media industry. Serve as the Company’s “ear to the ground” relating to changes in the market. Maintaining and developing a full knowledge of our competitive landscape.
• Be a high performing team member that consistently exceeds the expectations of employees, customers, and shareholders. Meet and quickly exceed sales targets.
• Become an expert user of our product so you can gain a deep understanding of its value proposition and target audience. Gaining this expertise requires being tech-savvy.
Experience: Required
• Must be smart, a strategic thinker, full of good ideas, resilient, persistent, flexible and driven.
• Must be outgoing, collaborative and communicative, comfortable and experienced in networking and establishing relationships with others professionally and effectively. The ability to simply convey complex ideas.
• Ability to penetrate organisations and agencies to reach various levels of decision makers.
• Natural sense of urgency and a keen sense of priorities.
• Ability to simultaneously advance multiple complex projects.
• Ability to prove value in new media areas.
• Timely, accurate and detail orientated.
• History selling sponsorships or non-traditional programs – getting people to say yes to something they didn’t previously have a budget for.
• Appropriate aggressiveness in challenging conventional methods.
• Salesforce knowledge.
• A team player who can gel with many personality types.
• Must thrive in a fast paced, (sometimes chaotic) but exciting, changing environment.
• Looking for an opportunity to directly influence the success of our ad sales organization and can handle the pressure of working with a fast paced team.