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Senior Sales Manager - EMEA - Publicis

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Activision Blizzard Media, is an embedded business unit of King - the makers of the #1 mobile game Candy Crush Saga and wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.

Harnessing its global monthly reach of 300M++ players, Activision Blizzard Media, is building a world-class business to bring innovative and impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players with a mobile focus, to create powerful solutions embraced by the world’s biggest marketers.

Your role in our Kingdom

ABM is seeking a passionate, innovative, and strategic Sales Manager to lead our agency relationships within Publicis, Independent agencies and some clients directly too, to establish ABM as the gaming must-buy for advertisers.

• Cultivate and build relationships that unlock spend with strategic accounts
• Set clear business plans that identify key accounts, agency stakeholders at all levels and actions required to unlock spend
• Meet high levels of external client activity - meetings, calls and prospecting - business development skills core

Skills to create thrills

• 5+ years of media experience in an agency partnership or ad sales capacity

• Previous experience of working within media, generating demand from the ground up for Digital Media Sales teams

• Extensive relationships with Publicis agencies in London and Internationally

• Experience with Havas, Independent agencies and clients a bonus as well

• Comfortable building and managing relationships across business stakeholders, internal and external

• Working knowledge of Google Ad Manager, DSPs, video/mobile media products, audience targeting and the programmatic landscape

• Ability and willingness to overcome tough objections and win the support of key external stakeholders

• Must be creative, smart, and passionate, as well as a problem solver and a team player

• Great communicator and presenter, with an entrepreneurial spirit driven to achieve sales goals

• Proven track record of exceeding sales goals

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/