Junior Sales Manager - Agencies

Teads; Milano; In loco; EUR 40.000 - 70.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Teads is seeking a a results-focused Agency Sales professional to join our Milano team. You will build and expand relationships with independent Italian agencies, collaborating with Account Managers, Creative, and Ad Operations to present integrated omnichannel campaigns.

You will own commercial support tasks, draft compelling proposals, track pipeline health, and identify fresh business leads to help the Italian Agency team meet revenue targets.

Competenze

• Experience in digital media sales or agency support roles.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with Italian clients.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with internal teams to close opportunities.

Mansioni

• Identify and develop growth opportunities with independent Italian agencies.
• Draft media proposals and respond to briefs with precision and speed.
• Manage pipeline metrics and track opportunities from lead to close.
• Deliver excellent client servicing to drive renewals and incremental budgets.

Conoscenze

Commercial experience

Digital advertising

Fluent Italian

English proficiency

Strumenti

Salesforce

Descrizione del lavoro

Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

About The Opportunity

This role sits within our Italian Agency Sales team, based in our Milano office and reporting directly to the Head of Independent Agency Sales, Italy. Our team is responsible for managing and growing key partnerships with the independent media agencies in Italy, helping them utilize Teads' unified omnichannel platform. You will join a highly collaborative, revenue-driven team, working closely with Account Managers, Creative Strategists, and Ad Operations to deliver best-in-class advertising solutions.

About The Role

• Core Mission: Join us in our Milano office to support our independent agency sales team, driving revenue growth and relationship-building across top-tier media agencies in Italy.
• Team Alignment: Partner closely with internal squads—including Account Management, Creative (Teads Studio), and Data & Insights—to build integrated, high-performing campaign pitches.
• Scope of Ownership: Take hands-on ownership of commercial support tasks, including constructing media proposals, answering briefings, tracking pipeline health, and prospecting for new agency accounts.
• Impact Metric: Success in this role means providing flawless client servicing, identifying fresh business leads, and helping the Italian Agency team meet and exceed its collective revenue targets.

What will you do?

• Identify New Business Avenues: Proactively map out the independent Italian agency landscape to identify, track, and prospect new growth and campaign opportunities.
• Promote Omnichannel Solutions: Promote Teads' ad format portfolio to agency contacts, sharing insights on online video, native display, and Connected TV (CTV) to capture market share.

Execution & Flawless Delivery

• Support the Proposal Process: Coordinate and draft compelling media proposals and respond to agency briefs with precision and speed.
• Track Pipeline Health: Manage commercial pipeline metrics and campaign data internally, ensuring that sales opportunities and pipeline statuses are tracked accurately.
• Deliver Premium Client Servicing: Provide day-to-day support and responsive servicing to agency partners to drive renewals and incremental budgets.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work daily with internal Account Managers, Creative, and Ad Operations teams to ensure campaign specs are aligned with agency expectations.
• Cultivate Trusted Relationships: Build strong, mutually beneficial connections with day-to-day agency planners, buyers, and account coordinators.

What will you bring to the team?

Must-Haves

• Experience: Initial commercial experience or internships in digital media sales, account management, or agency support roles.
• AdTech Curiosity: A general understanding of and a high affinity for digital advertising, including online video, display, performance, and CTV.
• Communication & Synergy: Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with a self-driven, team-oriented mindset.
• Organizational Agility: Highly structured with a proven ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and work under tight deadlines.
• Language Skills: Fluent Italian (written and verbal) is essential. Good working knowledge of English is required to collaborate across our global offices.
• Location/Legalities: Right to work in Italy (Milan) without requiring future visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-Have

• Prior experience working inside or directly with a major media agency in Milan.
• Familiarity with sales systems (like Salesforce) or digital media tracking and planning tools.

Bonus Points

• You connect deeply with our core values: putting customers and revenue at the heart of everything, making smart decisions quickly, and seeing change as an opportunity to learn.
• You are excited about testing innovative ad tech features and presenting new ideas to stakeholders.

Life at Teads

At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.

Role

As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:

• We've merged two open internet category leaders - Outbrain and Teads - to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.