Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager

TRSS; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information provider in Auckland is seeking an experienced Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager. In this role, you'll manage advertising and sponsorship sales, focusing on client relationships and new business development. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of five years in sales, strong communication skills, and a customer-centric approach. The company offers competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements, allowing for a better work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Career Development opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ experience in event sponsorship and/or advertising sales preferred.
• Experience working in a customer-obsessed culture essential.
• Exposure to Thomson Reuters’ markets would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage sales and relationship cycle for sponsors, partners, and advertisers.
• Build and maintain client relationships throughout the sales process.
• Prospect for new business and grow customer sales.

Skills

Communication Skills

Customer Relationship Management

Sales Experience

Research Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

Relevant tertiary qualifications

Job description

Overview

Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager – We are looking for our next Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager to work as part of our New Zealand team.

In this role, you will be responsible for advertising and sponsorship sales for our Australia and New Zealand media portfolio across Thomson Reuters’ ANZ business. This includes renewal, upselling, and cross-selling of existing customer accounts; new business development and new sales creation, maintaining and contributing to a strong customer experience along with the rest of the team members. Ultimately the role is responsible for retention of existing customers and identification of new customers to maximize sales of sponsorship, advertising and subscriptions.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager you will:

• End to end management of the sales/ relationship cycle for sponsors, partners, and advertisers
• Build and maintain client relationships, working closely with stakeholders throughout the sales cycle and on a regular basis.
• Prospect for new business and grow new customer sales Reuters and work on pitch for new logos
• Devise sales and activation plans for each client and sponsor/partner agreement
• Create additional value opportunities for key accounts and sponsors/partners
• Make contact with advertisers/sponsor/partners on a regular basis (video conference, audio calls and face to face)
• Undertake research into potential advertisers/sponsors, including competitor analysis

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Sponsorship & Advertising Account Manager if you have the following required qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications preferred but not essential
• Minimum five years’ experience in event sponsorship and/or advertising sales preferred
• Exposure to Thomson Reuters’ markets would be advantageous
• Experience working in a customer-obsessed culture essential
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including understanding the administrative function of sales

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What’s in it For You?

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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