Sales Manager

The way sports fans view and engage with content is evolving and DAZN is at the heart of this evolution. This is your chance to join the world’s most progressive sports media organisation and shape the way fans connect with some of the world’s best sports content. DAZN launched in 2016 in Japan, a live sports streaming service that is fundamentally altering the sports broadcast landscape. We require a super star Sales Manager with a passion for sport to play a crucial role in helping to build our broadcast and digital sales revenues within DAZN’s media sales team. If you’ve got solid experience working in digital media and/or broadcast media sales both directly with clients and through advertising agencies, then we would like to hear from you. DAZN is at the forefront of delivering branded content solutions for clients across our own platforms and social media, and relevant experience would get you off to a good start. Our direct brand relationships and agency relationships are core to the success of our media business and continued strong growth is projected for the foreseeable future.

As our new Sales Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Client revenue generation– Work with client accounts and advertising agencies to generate sales revenues for on platform and off platform.
• Partnership management – Manage key strategic relationships with media agencies, and major brand sponsors
• Account management- Manage key accounts to sustain long term business and deliver market leading levels of service
• Develop revenue stream – develop new accounts by cultivating direct clients and via media agencies to deliver sales revenue
• Team collaboration– report to the senior manager and VP and drive delivery of branded content solutions for key accounts through our client services, production and strategy teams
• Value add-Develop ideas that add value to our agencies and clients both from a business and business relationship perspective
• Campaign Reporting– take responsibility for campaigns and make sure timely and accurate reports are delivered to all stakeholders – highlighting key learnings and insights that will ensure we are constantly evolving our approach

You’ll have:

• 5+ years’ experience working in a sales and/or account management position within a media or agency environment
• Solid experience working with the major advertising agencies and brand advertisers
• Solid experience working across broadcast, digital and social media
• Excellent sales skills with a demonstrable track record of success
• High degree of self-motivation and ambition
• Strong attention to detail and analytical flair
• KPI driven with strong commercial awareness
• Fluency in Japanese with capability to communicate with clients