Ad - Sale

Responsibilities

As the Sales AM/Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, establishing, and managing relationships with advertisers, agencies and their trading desks across India, in order to ensure CTV (Connected TV) as well as digital budgets are invested on Samsungs suite of advertising solutions.

Samsung Ads is committed to transforming the partnerships we create with media agencies and are looking for an individual to deliver this vision across India demonstrating our core values of Humility / Hard Work / Harmony. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior business development leader to join and accelerate Samsung’s Advertising’s agency partnerships.

What do we need for this role?

• Develop high-level relationships with your customers and serve as a trusted consultant to optimize their advertising growth.
• Create mid-term and long-term territory plan to grow the advertising business both on and off our Smart TV platform.
• Work with agencies and brands to integrate the Smart TV platform into their media mix.
• Be the voice of the customer and communicate market trends and industry shifts, including implications to our products teams.
• Act as an internal champion for proposed Smart TV advertising strategy across other key Samsung stakeholders.

Background/Experience Required

• Extensive experience in new business development for traditional TV as well as digital media advertising (minimum 5 to 7 years)
• A solid understanding of advertising industry's issues and interest to advancing Smart TV's forward looking strategies within the marketplace
• Strong track record of high level negotiation with established relationships within the advertising industry
• Successful internal and external relationship management
• Ability to interact with agencies and advertisers and experience presenting both over the phone and in-person
• Experience working in both entrepreneurial and established corporate cultures
• Demonstrated ability to consistently close sales and generate revenues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail, and good follow-through