Senior Advertising Sales Manager

Taboola; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Excellent health insurance

Flexible working

Free breakfast and lunch

Stock options

Perkbox

Job summary

Taboola in London is seeking a Senior Advertising Sales Manager for the UK Enterprise Advertiser team to drive growth with high-profile enterprise clients.

You will engage senior stakeholders, build long-term relationships, and close strategic advertising deals that align with client KPIs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of advertising sales experience focused on direct marketers, brands and agencies.
• Knowledge of the media agency/brand landscape and WPP relationships.
• Proven ability to close negotiations with senior decision makers.
• Strong ability to build long-lasting strategic relationships and grow a book of business.
• Strong analytical skills to understand client challenges and present product-led solutions.
• Familiarity with UK-based WPP accounts and existing agency contacts.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to represent Taboola at the highest level.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and learn new tools including AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline to exceed quarterly revenue targets.
• Identify ICP brands and execute a customer-led strategy across WPP.
• Network extensively to grow personal and platform reputation.
• Present and sell Taboola’s advertising products with a results-driven approach.
• Collaborate with internal teams to maximize every opportunity and ensure top-tier service.

Skills

Advertising sales

WPP relationships

New business development

Strategic networking

Analytical skills

Agency contacts

Communication skills

Presentation skills

AI adaptation

Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Senior Advertising Sales Manager on the UK Enterprise Advertiser team in our London Office, you’ll play a vital role in expanding our UK footprint and bringing in new, high-profile enterprise clients.

Joining a motivated, high-performing team that continues to deliver impressive growth, you will identify, engage, and cement strategic relationships across key account teams and brands within WPP. You will bring a consultative approach to understand client objectives, present persuasively to senior stakeholders, and secure high-impact campaign bookings that drive sustained commercial success.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• 5+ years of strong advertising sales experience focussed on direct marketers, brands and agencies. Knowledge of the media agency/brand landscape is essential for this role.
• WPP experience & active WPP relationships
• Proven track record of identifying opportunities and delivering results with an ability to successfully close negotiations with senior decision makers
• A determined sales and networking drive with an ability to build long lasting strategic relationships and grow a book of business
• Strong analytical skills to understand a client challenge, reframe and reposition with a clear product led solution.
• Familiarity, knowledge and existing agency/client contacts across the industry essential, the ideal focus being UK based WPP accounts
• Exceptional communication skills - simply comfortable in all scenarios with a polish to represent Taboola at the highest level
• Strong presentation and questioning skills are essential
• The will and ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment
• Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and techniques - for example AI, when to use and when not to use

Bonus points if you have:

• Other HoldCo experience & active relationships

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Senior Advertising Sales Manager, you’ll:

• Have a growth mindset from day one
• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline to ensure you and the team exceed revenue targets each quarter
• Identify the ICP (ideal customer profile) brands and build & execute a customer-led strategy with the top brands across WPP
• Network extensively, building both your reputation and awareness and also that of the Realize platform
• Present and sell Taboola’s suite of advertising products with a consultative approach focussed on the client KPIs and performance metrics
• Work closely with other internal teams to ensure the highest levels of service and that we are continually maximising every opportunity

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realise their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 25 days holiday, excellent health insurance, some flexible working, free breakfast and lunch every day, stock options and Perkbox to name just a few.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Apple News, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, The Independent and Reach.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.