Digital Sales Manager

This is an exciting role within the News Broadcasting Commercial team to drive our unique suite of digital products in the market including VOD, display, CTV, branded content and digital audio products.
We are News Broadcasting:
Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with
Virgin Radio
- home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend.
talkSPORT
,
the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020
Times Radio
brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo.
In 2022 we launched
TalkTV
, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.
Your Role:
Reporting into The Director of Digital, this role will work across all News Broadcasting brands including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Times Radio and Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Day to day you will:
Drive digital revenue across all News Broadcasting products including VOD, display, CTV, instream (digital audio), podcasts and branded content
Develop relationships with key digital agency contacts and clients directly
Support the wider News Broadcasting sales team with digital proposals, meetings, plans and deliverables
Work with sales hubs to determine target clients and categories, whilst ensuring our digital products are included where relevant in wider News UK solutions responses
Work with your digital & sales colleagues, activation and key editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation & then delivery of the sold campaigns, to ensure post sale world class service and delivery for our clients.
What we’re looking for from you:
Good knowledge of media, agency and client processes and business objectives
An interest in and knowledge of the UK media industry, with a passion for the video and wider digital market
Demonstrable experience of working within the digital media space, ideally with VOD and display, with creativity and a personal drive to create award winning work
Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.
Life at News
:
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy
, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have
12 employee led networks and groups
that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Some of our benefits include: Maternity
leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &
paternity
leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of
training
available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance
including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships
, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
‘Bikes for Work’
and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to
wellbeing benefits
such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous
pension
scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
25 days
holiday
, plus bank holidays and up to 4
volunteering
days per year.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
Next Step:
Please
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to see this role on our own website, and apply.
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