Account Director (New Business) - Online Market Research

Resources Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a well-positioned market research agency as an Account Director, focusing on new business development within the online market research sector. This role emphasizes selling full projects rather than subscriptions, targeting the agency sector for expansion. With your consultative sales expertise and strong presentation skills, you'll play a crucial role in driving growth and potentially leading a team in the future. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic organization embedded in the communications sector, where your efforts will directly impact revenue streams and client relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in consultative sales, particularly in market research.
• Experience selling full-service consumer market research or similar.

Responsibilities

• Sell full projects in online market research, focusing on agency sector expansion.
• Collaborate with research teams and share insights with the sales team.

Skills

Consultative Sales Expertise

New Business Development

Presentation Skills

Market Research Knowledge

Job description

Account Director (New Business) - Online Market Research

c. £65 - 75,000 plus Commission; London (3 days per week)

Well positioned market research agency - part of a larger content group - seeks industrious Account Director with strong new business acumen gained from within research/insights.

In this role you'll be selling full projects (tracking studies etc) as opposed to subscriptions for this online market research provider. With a strong history of delivering market research/insights solutions, surveys, and panels to a broad range of clients, they're keen to improve their reach with a particular focus of this role being further expansion into agency sector (advertising, creative, media etc). As well as working closely with the research teams re project deliverables, you'll be able to share knowledge with the group's wider sales team who promote content solutions for the parent organisation. As such you'll be joining an internationally focused organisation that's closely embedded within the communications sector.

Your ideal experience will be demonstrable consultative sales expertise gained selling full service consumer market research or similar - whether from full service agencies, data collection or related. You'll be a strong presenter, target driven and have proven new business winning skills. Previous sales to the agency sector is definitely advantageous too. In return you'll get to grow a key vertical which has the potential to offer future team managerial prospects should this develop into a profitable revenue stream.

For further information contact Carl at Resources Group on [e-mail]