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Sales Director, Chicago - Activision Blizzard Media
3 years ago
Activision Blizzard Media (ABM) has built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly- engaged players. This division is building powerful marketing solutions that are already being embraced by the world’s largest marketers. ABM is seeking a passionate, innovative, and broad- thinking Sales Director to lead an agency team and to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.
This is an opportunity for you to tell our story in the market and build relationships within the advertising agency holding company landscape in Chicago.
Covid- 19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work- from- home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.
Your role within Activision Blizzard Media
- Cultivate and build relationships with strategic investment partners at agency holding companies.
- Manage a salesperson and account manager to support your efforts in an agency pod structure dedicated to servicing one of the largest holding companies.
- Ensure mutual success between customer and Activision Blizzard Media, while maximizing the potential from the relationship.
- Manage business and technical escalations and continually communicate requirements to all stakeholders, internal and external.
- Establish and follow a stringent enterprise account strategy to achieve long- term partnership goals.
Skills to create thrills
- 10- 15 years of media experience in an ad agency partnership or direct media sales capacity.
- 5- 7 years of management experience.
- Deep relationships throughout the major ad holding companies in Chicago.
- Working knowledge of DFP, Google AdX, video/mobile media products, audience targeting and the programmatic landscape.
- Demonstrated experience in sales- focused or partnership role selling through agencies.
- Ability to articulate complex requirements to achieve results.
- Comfortable building and managing relationships across business stakeholders, internal and external.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with experience working through cross functional teams.
- Demonstrated track record of exceeding client and revenue expectations.
About Activision and Our Family of Brands
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one (or more!) of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Malmö, Seattle, San Francisco and Stockholm along with offices in Chicago, LA, Malta, New York, and Tokyo. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) which acquired King in February 2016.
Activision Blizzard is a member of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500, and the world's most successful standalone interactive entertainment company.
We delight hundreds of millions of monthly active users around the world every day through franchises including Activision's Call of Duty®, Destiny and Skylanders®, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, and Heroes of the Storm®, and King's Candy Crush™, Pet Rescue™, Bubble Witch™ and Farm Heroes™.
We’ve been one of Fortune’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®" for the last four years. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, we have operations throughout the world, and our games are played in 196 countries.
More information about our company and products can be found on our website, www.activisionblizzard.com.
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