Platform Specialist (Industry Vertical) - Join Our Talent Network

Apple; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Platform Specialist to own and grow a portfolio within our Advertising Platforms, focusing on performance marketing and the mobile ecosystem. You will advise clients on campaign optimization, forge long-term partnerships, and drive revenue growth across the EMEA region.

Join a data-driven team that partners with product, marketing and regional colleagues to deliver results, insights, and exceptional service to our advertisers while advancing your career in a fast-paced tech

Qualifications

• Demonstrable account management or client-facing sales experience in advertising.
• Strong experience in performance advertising and the mobile/app market.
• Understanding of key metrics across finance, tech, or telco categories.
• Excellent collaboration, prioritisation and planning skills.
• Strong Excel literacy and analytical skills.
• Ability to stay calm under tight deadlines while delivering best-in-class service.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow a book of business within the Industry vertical, recommending optimised campaigns.
• Increase awareness of Apple’s advertising platforms with clients, agencies and partners.
• Maintain outreach via email, phone and meetings to hit business goals.
• Work with Manager & Client Partner teams to ensure alignment with objectives.
• Develop a strategy for long-term success across your portfolio.
• Act as a thought-leader within the category for clients and agencies.
• Use data to understand how to grow customers’ business.
• Partner with regional colleagues and stakeholders and share market feedback.
• Be part of an inclusive team culture focused on revenue and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Account management

Client facing

Performance advertising

Excel literacy

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Planning

Tools

Excel

Job description

Summary

At Apple, we don’t just create products — we create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionised entire industries. It’s the diversity of our teams and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.Our Advertising Platforms are a set of technologies that enable thriving ecosystems for Apple’s content partners: We help publishers and developers to earn money for the work that they produce, and we help consumers to discover amazing content that iOS developers are crafting for their iPhone and iPad. Apple Search Ads in the App Store are an easy, efficient and exceptionally fast-growing platform for app discovery. With over 65% of all app downloads resulting directly from a search on the App Store, Apple Search Ads is quickly becoming the platform of choice for app promotion for iOS developers.

Description

Are you highly analytical, inventive, customer-focused, team-oriented and skilled at working independently to meet business objectives? If so, we are continuously looking to connect with exceptional talent with experience in performance/mobile marketing and finance/technology/telecoms category expertise. While we may not have an active opening immediately available, submitting your profile ensures your details are reviewed directly by our recruitment team. When a role aligning with your experience, capabilities, and location preferences opens, we will reach out to discuss next steps. We welcome applications from professionals interested in exploring career paths with us across the EMEA region.The Platform Specialist team is responsible for helping businesses with promotion and discovery across Apple’s advertising platforms, with a focus on leading, growing and developing our key strategic accounts, and providing a best in class service for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and grow a book of business within the Industry vertical, by making recommendations to clients on how to best optimise their campaigns to hit their business goals and get the most value from Apple’s advertising platforms, whilst also forging long-term partnerships.
• Increase awareness and understanding of Apple’s advertising platforms throughout the industry by building connections with clients, agencies and partners.
• Maintain a high-level of outreach via email, phone and meetings to ensure clients hit their business goals and objectives.
• Work closely with your Manager & Client Partner team to ensure proper execution and alignment with customer objectives.
• Utilise your experience in the sector to develop a strategy for long-term success across your portfolio of clients & prospects.
• Act as a thought-leader within the category both internally and for clients and agencies.
• Use internal & external data sets to understand how to best help grow your customers’ business.
• Partner closely with your regional colleagues and other key stakeholders such as marketing and product, feeding back market sentiment on our products.
• Be part of an inclusive and open team culture, with results focussed behaviours that ensures the business hits its revenue and customer satisfaction targets.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrable account management/client facing sales experience, or in a target-orientated/commercial role within the finance, technology, telecoms or professional services paid advertising industry.
• Strong experience within performance advertising, the mobile and app market and a keen passion for the ever-changing digital space.
• Understanding of the key metrics and performance benchmarks across the finance, tech, and/or telco categories.
• Great collaboration, prioritisation and planning skills.
• Strong Excel literacy and analytical skills are critical for this role.
• You have a clear eye and can focus on the details and trends, combined with the skills to react quickly, ensuring the best in class service for clients, whilst keeping a "cool head" under tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to listen effectively, socialise ideas across functions and articulate the business visions both internally and externally.
• Passionate about working across teams, driving a culture of collaboration and shared success.