Advertising Sales Manager - India

Full Time
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
5 months ago

Curious about what it’s like to work at the world’s number 1 discovery platform as an Advertising Sales Manager? We’re glad you asked!

What is the key purpose of an Advertising Sales Manager?

We are looking for a high performing and driven Advertising Sales Manager to grow Taboola’s content supply. The Advertising Sales Manager in Mumbai will be expected to identify, engage and cement partnerships in order to expand and diversify offered content.

The candidate should be a strong, deal-oriented professional who can source, prospect and structure content marketing deals independently.

What skills and qualifications do I need?

For this role it is essential that you:

  • 4-5 years working experience in an advertiser sales position, preferably at a digital media company
  • Understanding of digital technology & revenue ecosystem and ability to explain product benefits within this context
  • Experience in structuring and negotiating deals, such experience within the digital media space in India – a great advantage
  • A true passion for online content, and a strong sales drive with an ability to build strategic partnerships
  • Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports
  • Excellent technological skills and ability to quickly learn what is needed to support the campaigns successful implementation and optimization
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and learn!

What will I be doing on a day-to-day basis?

As a Sales Manager, you will: 

  • Gain an understanding of digital technology and revenue ecosystem and be able to explain product benefits within this context
  • Sell multiple products to clients by finding the right stakeholders for each product, without digressing from a coherent product message and overall strategy
  • Manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked
  • Work closely with the Sales Director and the broader sales team to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals.
  • Collaborate with the Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaign management
  • Convey field intelligence to product management teams in regard to development features
  • Independently build a large pipeline of leads, pursue them and close deals.
  • Manage presentations, build relationships and negotiate contracts

What is Taboola?

Taboola is the world’s leading content discovery platform, serving 360B recommendations to over 1B unique visitors each month on the web’s most innovative publisher sites, including the BBC, Axel Springer, LeFigaro, Evening Standard, NBC, USA Today and more!

Since our inception in 2007, Taboola’s team of ninja-like engineers and digital media experts has built the world’s largest and most advanced discovery platform – or “search engine just the other way around” – that provides more than a billion users each month with personalized recommendations on many of the most innovative and most visited websites on the internet.

Thousands of leading publishers (e.g. India today, Zee, NDTV) and media agencies use Taboola’s innovative technology to increase user engagement, monetize their traffic and distribute content to committed users on the web.

Today there are more than 1,400 taboolars around the world (and the number is growing) connecting users to content they might like but didn’t know existed. We have offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, São Paulo, Shanghai, Tokyo and Bangkok

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, hit (easy) apply!

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.