Sales Manager Italy (F/M/D) Milano

Sales Manager Italy (F/M/D)
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

smartclip is Europe's largest open adtech development unit designed specifically for European broadcasters and streaming services.

As a subsidiary of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, smartclip is part of RTL Group — Europe's leading free-to-air broadcaster group.

Headquartered in Hamburg, smartclip has offices in Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Gütersloh, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Milan and Rome. _

- For our Italian Team we are looking for a _**_Sales Manager_**_ (f/m/d). _

- As _**Sales Manager (f/m/d)**_ at smartclip you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of media agencies and advertisers. - From identifying potential leads, to maintain existing relationships with clients, to nurturing prospective customer relationships and closing deals, you'll play an integral role in our sales team. _

- You will be part of a dynamic environment, characterized by a strong team spirit and a daily cooperation, both within the team and with the other departments. _

- You'll directly report to the Sales Director of the company. _

- Your tasks and responsibilities:_

- _Develop sales and relationships towards media agencies and advertisers

- _Deliver sales pitches to media agencies and advertisers

- _Identify clients' needs, providing them with suitable economic proposals, sales presentations and other kind of advertising sales materials

- _Develop sales strategies to achieve the short and long term sales revenue objectives_

- _Identify new potential clients to present and offer them our advertising products, determining new sales opportunities

- _Supervise the daily operations of a sales representatives and prepare sales and status reports_

- _Present forecast, figures and market analysis to your management_

- _Negotiate advertising budgets with media agencies and advertisers_

- _Daily interaction and exchange within the sales team_

- _Cooperation with the other departments (campaign management team, supply team, finance)_

- Requirements and qualifications:_

- _Higher or academic professional education level_

- _Minimum of 4/5 years in a sales account management function in an online/media marketing environment

- _Knowledge of the online advertising industry and dynamics_

- _Existing relationships with media agencies and advertisers_

- _Professional experience in the online video industry (both reservation and programmatic sales)_

- _Interest and curiosity towards new technologies and innovations like Connected TV and HBB-TV_

- _Strong sales and customer orientation_

- _Excellent understanding of the sales processes_

- _Team and collaboration spirit_

- _Outstanding presentation and excellent communication skills_

- _Proactive, self-going and stress-resistant team player_

- _Good organizational skills_

- _Interpersonal skills with strong aptitude in building relationships

- _Excellent communication skills in Italian and good communication skills in English (written and verbally)_

- Our benefits_

- _Whether Mac, Windows or a specific tool, you will receive your state-of-the-art work tools with top equipment_

- _Interesting projects using the latest technologies with plenty of scope for personal design and development_

- _Wide range of training opportunities_

- _Modern office space

- _Collegial and pleasant working atmosphere in a competent team_

- Working environment:_ _Flexible and dynamic working conditions in a leading European video technology company with ambitious plans to drive the converging tv and online video landscape for the years to come. _