Advertising Sales Manager, Italy

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! 

As an Advertising Sales Manager you will join our growing Italy team and focus on building and managing long-term strategic partnerships with Tier I Brands and agencies across the Region. As a highly-valued and proactive individual, you will contribute to Taboola’s growth by advocating the power of our platform within assigned client-direct and agency accounts. Success in this role is based on consistent prospecting/networking and pipeline development, new client acquisition/activation, client retention/growth, and achievement against progressive total revenue goals. We operate in a matrixed environment, with support from a skilled team of account managers, media planners, creative strategists and agency development leaders. Our culture and win-win approach to partnerships demand that a successful candidate will bring passion, accountability and a sense of professional urgency to work every day.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Fluent in Italian and English 
• 3+ years in a key sales position, preferably selling solutions to Italy clients
• Significant experience in structuring and negotiating deals
• Such experience within the digital media space with major brands and agencies – a great advantage
• Experience independently build, pursue and close a large pipeline of leads
• Technologically Savvy – ability to learn what is needed to support deal’s successful implementation and optimization
• Ability to work in a fast paced, quickly changing environment and consistently learn, adapt, and develop
• Programmatic experience – necessary

As an Advertising Sales Manager, you’ll bring value by:

• Generate new business and manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate, addressing Enterprise Advertiser budgets and Agencies budgets
• Understand clients’ organization and offer multiple Taboola products to a given client by finding the right stakeholders for each product
• Gain excellent understanding of digital technology, programmatic, video, and revenue ecosystem to be able to explain product benefits within this context
• Work closely with your Sales Director to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals.
• Coach and mentor sales team members
• Interact with the Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaign management
• Work closely with our Account Managers to manage long-term relationships with our clients
• Convey feedback from clients to Taboola’s product team in regards to product development needs
• Work closely with our Account Managers to manage long-term relationships with our clients
• Convey feedback from clients to Taboola’s product team in regards to product development needs

What we offer:

• Fantastic global career opportunities, competitive salary and generous benefits.
• The chance to be part of building something unique.
• Invaluable experience in the world’s leading discovery & native advertising platform
• The opportunity to join an international team, that’s ambitious, revenue driven with a deep technical knowledge of digital advertising so the chance to learn from the best.
• A company that embraces change, has enormous potential for growth and offers a challenging yet collaborative working environment where you will always feel valued and be given every opportunity to make a name for yourself.
• An office culture that’s international, social, and supportive.

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 25 days holiday, excellent health insurance, some flexible working, and stock options to name just a few.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

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.

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Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Sounds good, how do I apply?

It’s easy, submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below. 

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