Sales Manager

War Room; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading programmatic advertising agency is seeking a Sales Manager to drive business development and nurture client relationships. This hybrid role involves collaborating with technical and marketing teams to align services with client goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in sales, particularly in digital marketing, and possess excellent communication and organizational skills. Benefits include paid vacation, health and dental coverage, and an uncapped commission structure.

Benefits

3 weeks of paid vacation

Health and dental benefits

Wellness spending

Retirement matching

Qualifications

• 4-6 years in sales or business development, preferably in digital marketing.
• Proven success in prospecting and closing new business.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing with a consultative sales approach.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business through research, outbound calls, and networking.
• Build and sustain long-term client relationships.
• Manage the entire sales cycle from outreach to closing.

Skills

Sales

Business Development

Digital Marketing

Communication

Relationship Management

Organizational Skills

Job description

We are a highly specialized programmatic advertising agency focusing exclusively on digital media buying. Our approach consistently exceeds conversion goals and has earned us clients among the largest companies in North America.

We believe that happy employees lead to exceptional work and client satisfaction. Therefore, we foster a welcoming and inspiring environment, value your aspirations, and support goal setting to help you achieve milestones.

Our culture is built on openness, honesty, and idea-driven collaboration—prioritizing ideas over egos. We emphasize clear communication, creativity, growth, and celebrating successes.

About the Role

War Room is seeking a Sales Manager to join our expanding team. Reporting to the CRO, you will identify new business opportunities, nurture client relationships, and position our digital marketing and technical services to meet client needs. This role requires a proactive, consultative sales approach and close collaboration with technical and marketing teams to align offerings with client goals.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days in the office weekly, with the first 3 months fully onsite. Our office is located at 210 W Broadway, Vancouver, operating from 9 am to 5 pm.

What You'll Be Doing

• Business Development: Generate new business through research, outbound calls, cold emails, networking, and social media outreach.
• Client Discovery: Understand prospective clients' goals and challenges; collaborate internally to develop solutions.
• Consultative Selling: Recommend services aligning with client objectives and position War Room as a value-added partner.
• Relationship Management: Build and sustain long-term client relationships, ensuring a smooth transition to the account team post-sale.
• Proposal Coordination: Collaborate with internal experts to craft tailored proposals reflecting client needs and capabilities.
• Sales Process Execution: Manage the entire sales cycle from outreach to closing, prioritize leads, and meet revenue goals.
• Sales Insights: Provide feedback to improve sales processes and service offerings.

Skills + Experience

• 4-6 years in sales or business development, preferably in digital marketing, advertising, or tech services.
• Proven success in prospecting and closing new business.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing with a consultative sales approach.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience in customizing proposals with internal teams.
• Organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and goal-oriented.

Bonus Points

• Experience with programmatic advertising.

We encourage applicants who may not meet all criteria but demonstrate potential to learn. We value diversity and strive to build high-performing teams with varied backgrounds and perspectives.

Benefits include 3 weeks of paid vacation (with tenure increases), holiday breaks, sick leave, health and dental benefits, wellness spending, and retirement matching.

This role offers an uncapped commission structure with potential earnings of up to $45,000 in OTE, in addition to base pay.

We appreciate your interest. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

War Room is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, regardless of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, or any other protected status.

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.